'Village for Sale’: Parched hamlet's desperate plea amid water crisis in Maharashtra
Reported by The New Indian Express.
Dussehra (Vijayadashami) falls on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 across Umarkhed and the rest of Maharashtra.
62 village centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a village to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Umarkhed mandal is situated in Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, with 141 revenue villages and 96 gram panchayats. The 2011 Census reported a population of 171,450 in 37,626 households, with a literacy rate of 67.2% and a sex ratio of 947. The workforce comprised 87,139 workers, including 26,845 cultivators and 47,076 agricultural labourers. At 82.1%, JJM tap water coverage was notably high, with major villages including Mulawa, Brahmangaon, and Bitargaon Buk.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Umarkhed mandal.
ಗ್ರಾಮ ಆರಿಸಿ ಜನರು, ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ಗಳು, ಉದ್ಯೋಗ, ಸೇವೆಗಳ ಪುಟ ತೆರೆಯಿರಿ.
Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
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