By population, Jolay ranks #28 of 131 villages in Sonkatch mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jolay is a village of 1,460 people in 277 households (Census 2011) in Sonkatch tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 28th-largest of 131 villages in Sonkatch tehsil. Literacy is 57%, about the same as the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 965 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 455118, served by Sonkutch post office; the LGD village code is 473373. The sarpanch is lakhansingh dewada, and the village votes in Shajapur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Arun Bhimawad. The population is estimated at 1,721 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Jolai →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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