By population, Achana ranks #29 of 192 villages in Pithampur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Achana is a village of 1,261 people in 243 households (Census 2011) in Pithampur tehsil, Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 29th-largest of 192 villages in Pithampur tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 10 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 1,002 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Dhar district centre, 24 km from Kodriya, the nearest town, 19 km from Tihi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 454774, served by Pithampur III post office; the LGD village code is 474992. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Digthan, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Kavita, and the village votes in Sonkatch assembly constituency, represented by Dr. Rajesh Sonkar. The population is estimated at 1,487 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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