By population, Basi ranks #27 of 60 villages in Katangi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basi is a village of 1,517 people in 385 households (Census 2011) in Katangi tehsil, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, the 27th-largest of 60 villages in Katangi tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 2 points below the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 1,012 women per 1,000 men. It lies 54 km from the Balaghat district centre, 30 km from Ashti, the nearest town, 7 km from Saongi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481449, served by Tirodi post office; the LGD village code is 497248. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital Waraseoni, 9 km away. The sarpanch is BHEMAN KUMAR PATLE , and the village votes in Keolari assembly constituency, represented by Rajneesh Harvansh Singh. The population is estimated at 1,789 in 2026, up 18% 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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