By population, Mathar ranks #45 of 179 villages in Niwas mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mathar is a village of 875 people in 249 households (Census 2011) in Niwas tehsil, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh, the 45th-largest of 179 villages in Niwas tehsil. Literacy is 45%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 1,049 women per 1,000 men. It lies 88 km from the Mandla district centre, 24 km from Bhoma railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481885, served by Niwas post office; the LGD village code is 492490. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital Bandol, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Kunwar Maravi, and the village votes in Jabalpur Paschim assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rakesh Singh. The population is estimated at 1,032 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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