‘No Love Marriage In This Air’: Haryana’s Hisar Panchayat’s Diktat To Protect ‘Social Fabric’ Explained
Reported by News18.
Dussehra (Vijayadashami) falls on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 across Balsamand St and the rest of Haryana.
Balsamand is a mandal in Hisar district, Haryana, comprising 19 revenue villages and 18 gram panchayats. Census 2011 enumerated 70,160 persons in 13,255 households with literacy of 61.8% and sex ratio of 891. Of 34,420 workers, 14,660 were cultivators and 5,659 were agricultural labourers. Notably, JJM tap water coverage was 100.0%, indicating universal household water access. Key villages are Balsamand, Dobhi, and Khariya.
No places ingested for Balsamand St mandal yet — the OSM spatial-join (§5.5) will populate them once it runs.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Balsamand St mandal.
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Reported by The Times of India.