'Village for Sale’: Parched hamlet's desperate plea amid water crisis in Maharashtra
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Hingani observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Hingani ranks #90 of 112 villages in Mahagaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hingani is a village of 658 people in 158 households (Census 2011) in Mahagaon taluka, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, the 90th-largest of 112 villages in Mahagaon taluka. Literacy is 73%, 6 points above the taluka average of 67% and the sex ratio is 859 women per 1,000 men. It lies 109 km from the Yavatmal district centre, 34 km from Ghodegaon, the nearest town, 14 km from Kapustalni railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 445209, served by Issapur post office; the LGD village code is 543155. The nearest hospital or health centre is Om Shanti Hospital, 4 km away. The sarpanch is gajanan dilip budhal, and the village votes in Karanja assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sai Prakash Dahake. The population is estimated at 776 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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