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Raikheda 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, Raikheda ranks #131 of 250 villages in Gotegaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Raikheda is a village of 400 people in 106 households (Census 2011) in Gotegaon tehsil, Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 131st-largest of 250 villages in Gotegaon tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 67% and the sex ratio is 843 women per 1,000 men. It lies 340 km from the Narsimhapur district centre, 3 km from Bhensoda, the nearest town, 5 km from Bhawani Mandi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 487118, served by Gotegaon post office; the LGD village code is 490550. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Bhawani Mandi, 6 km away. The sarpanch is niranjan singh patel, and the village votes in Deori assembly constituency, represented by MLA Brijbihari Pateriya (Gudda Bhaiya). The population is estimated at 472 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kareli Kalan →
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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