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About Badi Kalan Village

Badi Kalan is a small village in Sailana tehsil, in the district of Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 375, made up of 184 males and 191 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,038 females per 1000 males. The village covers 102.31 hectares hectares.

Badi Kalan Overview

Census 2011 figures for Badi Kalan village
Description Value
State Madhya Pradesh
District Ratlam
Tehsil Sailana
Area (hectares) 102.31 hectares
Population 375
Male Population 184
Female Population 191
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males) 1,038
Bus Service (public) Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Bus Service (private) Available within 5 - 10 km distance
Nearest Railway Station Available within 10+ km distance

How Badi Kalan compares

By the 2011 count Badi Kalan is the 115th largest of the 224 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 509 residents. Its 102.31 hectares work out to about 3.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1000.

Getting to Badi Kalan

Badi Kalan is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Badi Kalan as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 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 Badi Kalan from other places

Badi Kalan lies about 25 km from Ratlam, and the nearest railway station is Namli, about 22 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 Badi Kalan
Tehsil headquarters Sailana 7.8 km
Nearest railway station Namli 22 km
District headquarters Ratlam 25 km
Nearest town Ratlām 25 km

Villages closest to Badi Kalan

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

Common questions about Badi Kalan

As per the Census of India 2011, Badi Kalan village had a population of 375. That makes it the 115th largest of the 224 villages in the tehsil, a little below average for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 509 residents.

Badi Kalan village has 184 males and 191 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Badi Kalan has about 1038 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1000.

Badi Kalan covers 102.31 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 3.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Badi Kalan falls under Sailana tehsil of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh.

The nearest railway station to Badi Kalan is Namli, about 22 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 5 - 10 km distance and private bus service as Available within 5 - 10 km distance for Badi Kalan.

Badi Kalan is about 25 km from Ratlam in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Badi Kalan is in Sailana tehsil of Ratlam district. Sailana is about 7.8 km away. Namli is about 22 km away. Ratlam is about 25 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.

The closest recorded villages are Amaliyadol Kalan (under 2 km), Baddhapura Kalan (under 2 km) and Bakhatpura Kalan (under 2 km).

No. It is the count from the Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. The population of Badi Kalan today is likely to be higher.

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