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Kalimati observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Katangi mandal is Toll tax (permanently closed). No temple of this dedication is on record within Kalimati itself.
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, Kalimati ranks #40 of 60 villages in Katangi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kalimati is a village of 1,103 people in 244 households (Census 2011) in Katangi tehsil, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, the 40th-largest of 60 villages in Katangi tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 973 women per 1,000 men. It lies 112 km from the Balaghat district centre, 19 km from Salekasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 481449, served by Tirodi post office; the LGD village code is 497245. The nearest hospital or health centre is CH Lanji, 4 km away. The sarpanch is purnima bhupendra choudhary, and the village votes in Keolari assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajneesh Harvansh Singh. The population is estimated at 1,300 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kalimati →
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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