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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Savita Prashant Gadekar
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- LGD code
- 543056
- Pincode
- 445206
- Post office
- Umarkhed
- Population
- 808
- Households
- 184
- Literacy rate
- 72.2%
- Sex ratio
- 956 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 319
- Distance to district centre
- 53 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 494 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 308 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kannargoan Naka · 37 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dr. Masoom Ali Hospital · 11 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Ekamba compares
By population, Ekamba ranks #90 of 131 villages in Umarkhed mandal.
Literacy rate
%
72.2%
+5.0% vs mandal average
Ekamba72.2%
Umarkhed mandal67.2%
Yavatmal district73.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
956
+9 vs mandal average
Ekamba956
Umarkhed mandal947
Household size
people per home
4.4
−0.2 vs mandal average
Ekamba4.4
Umarkhed mandal4.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ekamba at a glance
Ekamba is a village of 808 people in 184 households (Census 2011) in Umarkhed taluka, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, the 90th-largest of 131 villages in Umarkhed taluka. Literacy is 72%, 5 points above the taluka average of 67% and the sex ratio is 956 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Yavatmal district centre, 51 km from Akhada Balapur, the nearest town, 37 km from Kannargoan Naka railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 445206, served by Umarkhed post office; the LGD village code is 543056. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Masoom Ali Hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Savita Prashant Gadekar, and the village votes in Pusad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Indranil Manohar Naik. The population is estimated at 953 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Ekamba
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- Yes
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 16
- Power hours (winter)
- 18
- 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
- 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
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- UMARKHED
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 42
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 12
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 42
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Total area (ha)
- 201.67
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 186.65
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Key facts — Ekamba
- LGD code
- 543056
- Pincode
- 445206
- Post office
- Umarkhed
- Population (Census 2011)
- 808
- Population (projected 2026)
- 953
- Households
- 184
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 956
- Literacy rate
- 72.2%
- Coordinates
- 19.98722°N, 77.49440°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Yavatmal-Washim
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pusad
- Member of Parliament
- Sanjay Deshmukh
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Indranil Manohar Naik
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Savita Prashant Gadekar
- Block / Mandal
- Umarkhed
Getting there
How to reach Ekamba
Nearest town · 12,505 people
Akhada Balapur · ≈ 51 km
≈ 1 h 45 min by car · 2 h 5 min by bike
DirectionsDistance to cities · straight line
- Mumbai494 kmcapital
- Hyderabad308 km
- Bengaluru780 km
- Chennai823 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKannargoan Naka37 km
- Hospital / PHCDr. Masoom Ali Hospital11 km
- ATM / banksuwas27 km
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- 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
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