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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Arti Kol
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- LGD code
- 465195
- Pincode
- 486556
- Post office
- Dabhaura
- Population
- 714
- Households
- 148
- Literacy rate
- 45.1%
- Sex ratio
- 850 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 374
- Distance to district centre
- 42 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 3 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 419 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 572 km
- Nearest railway station
- Manikpur Junction · 24 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government hospital Rimari · 13 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Ovari compares
By population, Ovari ranks #98 of 264 villages in Jawa mandal.
Literacy rate
%
45.1%
−12.9% vs mandal average
- Ovari
- 45.1%
- Jawa mandal
- 58.0%
- Rewa district
- 61.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
850
−71 vs mandal average
- Ovari
- 850
- Jawa mandal
- 921
Household size
people per home
4.8
+0.3 vs mandal average
- Ovari
- 4.8
- Jawa mandal
- 4.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ovari at a glance
Ovari is a village of 714 people in 148 households (Census 2011) in Jawa tehsil, Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, the 98th-largest of 264 villages in Jawa tehsil. Literacy is 45%, 13 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 850 women per 1,000 men. It lies 42 km from the Rewa district centre, 33 km from Gahira, the nearest town, 24 km from Manikpur Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 486556, served by Dabhaura post office; the LGD village code is 465195. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Rimari, 13 km away. The sarpanch is Arti Kol, and the village votes in Semariya assembly constituency, represented by MLA Abhay Mishra. The population is estimated at 842 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Ovari
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 6
- Power hours (winter)
- 6
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- Yes
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- Yes
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- SIRMOUR
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 100
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 48
- All-weather road
- No
- Total area (ha)
- 2,153
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 12
- Forest area (ha)
- 1,778
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Ovari
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Ovari
- LGD code
- 465195
- Pincode
- 486556
- Post office
- Dabhaura
- Population (Census 2011)
- 714
- Population (projected 2026)
- 842
- Households
- 148
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 850
- Literacy rate
- 45.1%
- Coordinates
- 24.85521°N, 81.14665°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Rewa
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Semariya
- Member of Parliament
- Janardan Mishra
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Abhay Mishra
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Arti Kol
- Block / Mandal
- Jawa
- Nearest railway station
- Manikpur Junction (23.6 km)
Getting there
How to reach Ovari
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal419 kmcapital
- Delhi572 km
- Kolkata777 km
- Hyderabad875 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationManikpur Junction24 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment hospital Rimari13 km
- ATM / bankIDBI Bank36 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil36 km
- CollegeJRD STATE UNIVERSITY, CHITRAKOOT47 km
- Police stationPolice station46 km
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-17
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)