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Keli observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Keli ranks #60 of 122 villages in Aundha (Nagnath) mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Keli is a village of 1,151 people in 242 households (Census 2011) in Aundha (Nagnath) taluka, Hingoli district, Maharashtra, the 60th-largest of 122 villages in Aundha (Nagnath) taluka. Literacy is 67%, 2 points above the taluka average of 65% and the sex ratio is 961 women per 1,000 men. It lies 46 km from the Hingoli district centre, 42 km from Ghatnandra, the nearest town, 12 km from Jaulka railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 431509, served by Jintur post office; the LGD village code is 546094. The nearest hospital or health centre is Mandhane Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is PARVATI UDHAVRAO SANGLE, and the village votes in Hingoli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mutkule Tanhaji Sakharamji. The population is estimated at 1,357 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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