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    Rural Research Project: Bijouri
    (MICA, 2015) Sharma, Anagh; Pandey, Anupriya; Nair, Arathi
    The village Bijouri is situated in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. It is 345 km’s away from the capital city of the state Bhopal and is 30 km’s away from the nearest city Jabalpur. The village is very well connected with road. The village has 388 families with 58 families which have female Mukhiya and 330 families with Male Mukhiya. The overall population of the village is 1482. In Bijouri village population of children with age 0-6 is 46 which makes up 15.59 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Bijouri village is 928 which is lower than Madhya Pradesh state average of 931. Child Sex Ratio for the Bijouri as per census is 917, lower than Madhya Pradesh average of 918. Bijouri village has higher literacy rate compared to Madhya Pradesh. In 2011, literacy rate of Bijouri village was 77.11 % compared to 69.32 % of Madhya Pradesh. In Bijouri Male literacy stands at 85.27 % while female literacy rate was 68.33 %. As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Bijouri village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village.