About Melu Kheda Village

Melu Kheda is a small village in Khilchipur tehsil, in the district of Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 467, made up of 246 males and 221 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 898 females per 1000 males. The village covers 226.41 hectares hectares.

Melu Kheda Overview

Census 2011 figures for Melu Kheda village
Description	Value
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Rajgarh
Tehsil	Khilchipur
Area (hectares)	226.41 hectares
Population	467
Male Population	246
Female Population	221
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	898
Bus Service (public)	Available within 10+ km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 10+ km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Melu Kheda compares

By the 2011 count Melu Kheda is the 110th largest of the 282 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 531 residents. Its 226.41 hectares work out to about 2.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 973.

Getting to Melu Kheda

Melu Kheda is fairly remote, with both bus and rail more than ten kilometres away. The census records public bus service for Melu Kheda as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Melu Kheda from other places

Melu Kheda lies about 22 km from Rajgarh, and the nearest railway station is Sinduriya Kachari, about 41 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Distances from Melu Kheda
Tehsil headquarters	Khilchipur	6.3 km
Nearest town	Jirapur	16 km
District headquarters	Rajgarh	22 km
Nearest railway station	Sinduriya Kachari	41 km

Villages closest to Melu Kheda

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Khilchipur tehsil.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.

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Common questions about Melu Kheda

As per the Census of India 2011, Melu Kheda village had a population of 467. That makes it the 110th largest of the 282 villages in the tehsil, a little below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 531 residents.

Melu Kheda village has 246 males and 221 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Melu Kheda has about 898 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 973.

Melu Kheda covers 226.41 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 2.1 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Melu Kheda falls under Khilchipur tehsil of Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh.

The nearest railway station to Melu Kheda is Sinduriya Kachari, about 41 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within 10+ km distance and private bus service as Available within 10+ km distance for Melu Kheda.

Melu Kheda is about 22 km from Rajgarh in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Melu Kheda is in Khilchipur tehsil of Rajgarh district. Khilchipur is about 6.3 km away. Jirapur is about 16 km away. Rajgarh is about 22 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.