By population, Payali ranks #20 of 157 villages in Chhapara mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Payali is a village of 1,165 people in 316 households (Census 2011) in Chhapara tehsil, Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 20th-largest of 157 villages in Chhapara tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 961 women per 1,000 men. It lies 361 km from the Seoni district centre, 40 km from Dag, the nearest town, 51 km from Sarangpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 480884, served by Chhapara post office; the LGD village code is 496090. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 14 km away. The sarpanch is CHAMRI BAI, and the village votes in Amarwara assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kamlesh Pratap Shah. The population is estimated at 1,374 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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