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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
LEKHA SHIV
Contact: 99****4171
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- LGD code
- 496499
- Pincode
- 480996
- Post office
- Ugli
- Population
- 603
- Households
- 138
- Literacy rate
- 66.2%
- Sex ratio
- 1051 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 319
- Distance to district centre
- 40 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 259 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 586 km
- Nearest railway station
- Keolari · 18 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital Keolari · 18 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Bakal compares
By population, Bakal ranks #104 of 184 villages in Keolari mandal.
Literacy rate
%
66.2%
+2.9% vs mandal average
Bakal66.2%
Keolari mandal63.3%
Seoni district62.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,051
+55 vs mandal average
Bakal1,051
Keolari mandal996
Household size
people per home
4.4
+0.1 vs mandal average
Bakal4.4
Keolari mandal4.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bakal at a glance
Bakal is a village of 603 people in 138 households (Census 2011) in Keolari tehsil, Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh, the 104th-largest of 184 villages in Keolari tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 1,051 women per 1,000 men. It lies 40 km from the Seoni district centre, 18 km from Keolari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 480996, served by Ugli post office; the LGD village code is 496499. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Keolari, 18 km away. The sarpanch is LEKHA SHIV. The population is estimated at 711 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Bakal
- 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
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 8
- Power hours (winter)
- 12
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- 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
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- BARGHAT
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 65
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 45
- All-weather road
- No
- Total area (ha)
- 280
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 29
- Forest area (ha)
- 14
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Bakal
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Bakal
- LGD code
- 496499
- Pincode
- 480996
- Post office
- Ugli
- Population (Census 2011)
- 603
- Population (projected 2026)
- 711
- Households
- 138
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1051
- Literacy rate
- 66.2%
- Coordinates
- 22.50497°N, 79.80475°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Mandla
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Lakhnadon
- Member of Parliament
- Faggan Singh Kulaste
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- LEKHA SHIV
- Block / Mandal
- Keolari
Getting there
How to reach Bakal
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal259 kmcapital
- Hyderabad586 km
- Delhi727 km
- Mumbai815 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKeolari18 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital Keolari18 km
- ATM / bankCentral Bank of India32 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil39 km
- Police stationMaharajpur Police Station58 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, 2026-09-24
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)