Barja observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
By population, Barja ranks #32 of 61 villages in Timarni mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barja is a village of 739 people in 156 households (Census 2011) in Timarni tehsil, Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, the 32nd-largest of 61 villages in Timarni tehsil. Literacy is 70%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 67% and the sex ratio is 866 women per 1,000 men. It lies 20 km from the Harda district centre, 2 km from Timarni railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 461228, served by Timarni post office; the LGD village code is 486969. The nearest hospital or health centre is Maa Rewa Hospital Harda Dr Manjusha Parhate, 15 km away. The sarpanch is SUSMA BAI, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 871 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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