'Village for Sale’: Parched hamlet's desperate plea amid water crisis in Maharashtra
Reported by The New Indian Express.
Khatgun observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Khatgun ranks #21 of 140 villages in Khatav mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
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.
Gram panchayat: Khatgun →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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.
Centred on Khatav mandal
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