Ex-CM Uma Bharti renews call for total alcohol prohibition in Madhya Pradesh after Sagar hooch tragedy
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Chilgarh observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Kesli mandal is 1008 Shree parasvnath Jain Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chilgarh 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, Chilgarh ranks #166 of 189 villages in Kesli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chilgarh is a village of 55 people in 10 households (Census 2011) in Kesli tehsil, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 166th-largest of 189 villages in Kesli tehsil. Literacy is 36%, 23 points below the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 1,200 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 470235, served by Kesli post office; the LGD village code is 461293. The sarpanch is Ajana lodhi, and the village votes in Rehli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gopal Bhargava. The population is estimated at 65 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Putrra (P) →
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.
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.
Centred on Kesli mandal
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