By population, Chikanya ranks #12 of 107 villages in Garoth mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chikanya is a village of 2,349 people in 488 households (Census 2011) in Garoth tehsil, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 12th-largest of 107 villages in Garoth tehsil. Literacy is 48%, 9 points below the tehsil average, and the sex ratio is 964 women per 1,000 men. It lies 37 km from the Mandsaur district centre, 18 km from Bhensoda, the nearest town, 5 km from Kurlasi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 458880, served by Garoth post office; the LGD village code is 469403. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Qureshi Hospital, 9 km away. The sarpanch is Shyamsingh Chouhan, and the village votes in Garoth assembly constituency, represented by Chandar Singh Sisodiya. The population is estimated at 2,769 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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