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'Village for Sale’: Parched hamlet's desperate plea amid water crisis in Maharashtra
Reported by The New Indian Express.
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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Amina Faruk Sayyad
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- LGD code
- 563492
- Pincode
- 415502
- Post office
- Pusegaon
- Population
- 3,256
- Households
- 712
- Literacy rate
- 77%
- Sex ratio
- 983 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,341
Census 2011 · in context
How Khatgun compares
By population, Khatgun ranks #21 of 140 villages in Khatav mandal.
Literacy rate
%
77.0%
+4.9% vs mandal average
- Khatgun
- 77.0%
- Khatav mandal
- 72.1%
- Satara district
- 74.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
983
−29 vs mandal average
- Khatgun
- 983
- Khatav mandal
- 1,012
Household size
people per home
4.6
Same as the mandal average
- Khatgun
- 4.6
- Khatav mandal
- 4.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khatgun at a glance
Khatgun is a village of 3,256 people in 712 households (Census 2011) in Khatav taluka, Satara district, Maharashtra, the 21st-largest of 140 villages in Khatav taluka. Literacy is 77%, 5 points above the taluka average of 72% and the sex ratio is 983 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 415502, served by Pusegaon post office; the LGD village code is 563492. The sarpanch is Amina Faruk Sayyad, and the village votes in Karmala assembly constituency, represented by MLA Narayan (Aba) Govindrao Patil. The population is estimated at 3,839 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Khatgun
- Treated tap water
- Yes
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- Yes
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 10
- Power hours (winter)
- 12
- Primary school
- 3
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- Rahimatpur
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 16
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 40
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 17
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Total area (ha)
- 1,183.06
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 686.63
- Forest area (ha)
- 20.84
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Khatgun
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Khatgun
- LGD code
- 563492
- Pincode
- 415502
- Post office
- Pusegaon
- Population (Census 2011)
- 3,256
- Population (projected 2026)
- 3,839
- Households
- 712
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 983
- Literacy rate
- 77.0%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Madha
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Karmala
- Member of Parliament
- Dhairyasheel Mohite Patil
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Narayan (Aba) Govindrao Patil
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Amina Faruk Sayyad
- Block / Mandal
- Khatav
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)