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Berakhedi
Berakhedi is a Gram Panchat situated in Sonkatch tehsil of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh State. Its geolocation is 23°04'17.5"N 76°21'59.9"E. This village is surrounded by a small moutain of Satpura range in North direction, by Somavati river and Kali Sindh river in West direction and bada balda (mountain) of Satpura range in  East direction. In 1 km radius, Patadia Nazdik villlage in North- west direction and Karadia Pari villge in South - West direction.

Transportation
Berakhedi village has good connectivity by roads and waterway. It is 88 km far from Indore city, 45 km from dewas, and 85 km from Ujjain city. Tehsil Sonkatch is 15 km away from village in south direction. Gandharvapuri village is 5 km way from Berakhedi in south direction and Choubara Dhira 4 km way in west direction. Both nearer villages have weekly market on tuesday and thursday respectively. Earlier Choubara Dhira, Karadia Pari, Dehari, Kalukhedi, etc villages were connected by waterway in Kali Sindh river in rainy season.

Demographics
Total population of village is 1232 as per census data of 2011, in which male population is 654 and female population is 578. Total geographical area of Berakhedi village is 551.34 Hectares. Population density of Berakhedi is 2 persons per Hectares. Total number of house hold in village is 249.

Sex Ratio of Berakhedi Village -Census 2011
As per the Census Data 2011 there are 884 Femals per 1000 males out of 1232 total population of village. There are 750 girls per 1000 boys under 6 years of age in the village.

Literacy of Berakhedi Village
Out of total poplation total 803 people in Berakhedi Village are literate, among them 512 are male and 291 are female in the village. Total literacy rate of of Berakhedi is 73.53%, for male literacy is 89.2% and for female literacy rate is 56.18%.

History
Accordig to villagers, earliear name of village was Pipaliya and situated on foothill of chhota balda (small moutain) near to temple of Dev maharaj. Still there is old terracota and utencils come out from mountaneous area on digging. A legend is that in 17th century villagers killed a pocession of Khoira village by axes and swords and throw them in Bada Balda (big mountain) and their souls are present there.

Agriculture
Dewas district is famous for Soybean crop cultivation and in Berakhedi also Soybean in Kharif (rainy) season, beside this very less area engaged in Sorghum, Maize, Tur, vegetables also. In Rabi (Winter) season, farmers focus on Wheat, Gram, Lentil.

Soil is medium to deep Black Cotton soil (Vertisols order) in mainland and Alluvial soil (Alfisols order) in Somavati river and Kali Sindh river.

Approximately 44 hactare of land covered by forest. Mahua (honey tree), Karonda (Bengal currant), Karanj (Millettia), Custard, Blueberry, Mango, Tamrind, etc fruit trees in wild form and teak trees are abundant in forest. This forest area is under governanance of Madhya Pradush Forest Department.

Attractions
There are Dev maharaj temple and Kalka mata temple existing from unrecorded times. the ram temple is made by Bhawsar caste group 200 years ago and renovate in 2015 by villagers collectively. Hanuman temple, shiva mandir, dudheshwar temple in 2015, Peer Maharaj Dargah, kundal wala maharaj, Jaamun wala mataji, Chhappan imli wala Maharaj, Rushi Maharaj, Kheda Devi temple at Kheriya Ghati on Pipalrawa - Sonkatch road and Shri Krishna temple, etc places are of attraction.