By population, Barai ranks #71 of 111 villages in Chanderi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barai is a village of 345 people in 86 households (Census 2011) in Chanderi tehsil, Ashoknagar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 71st-largest of 111 villages in Chanderi tehsil. Literacy is 64%, 16 points above the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 885 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Ashoknagar district centre, 34 km from Jakhalon, the nearest town, 26 km from Piprai Gaon railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 473446, served by Chanderi post office; the LGD village code is 500268. The nearest hospital or health centre is Goverment hospital,Chanderi, 6 km away. The sarpanch is Har Singh Adiwasi, and the village votes in Mungaoli assembly constituency, represented by Brajendra Singh Yadav. The population is estimated at 783 in 2026, up 127% since the 2011 Census.
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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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