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Umarda observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Umarda ranks #87 of 101 villages in Kotma mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Umarda is a village of 355 people in 88 households (Census 2011) in Kotma tehsil, Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 87th-largest of 101 villages in Kotma tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 57% and the sex ratio is 1,064 women per 1,000 men. It lies 521 km from the Anuppur district centre, 15 km from Borgaon Buzurg, the nearest town, 4 km from Asirgarh Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 484440, served by Bijuri post office; the LGD village code is 501749. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sanmati Hopital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is AKHILESH SINGH, and the village votes in Bandhavgarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shivnarayan Gyan Singh (Lallu Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 419 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Umarda →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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