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Jalpur 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, Jalpur ranks #168 of 194 villages in Lateri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jalpur is a village of 134 people in 32 households (Census 2011) in Lateri tehsil, Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh, the 168th-largest of 194 villages in Lateri tehsil. Literacy is 29%, 17 points below the tehsil average of 46% and the sex ratio is 654 women per 1,000 men. It lies 43 km from the Vidisha district centre, 26 km from Maksudangarh, the nearest town, 50 km from Ganj Basoda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 464114, served by Lateri post office; the LGD village code is 480603. The nearest hospital or health centre is bls hospital, 10 km away. The sarpanch is SIRADAR BAI, and the village votes in Sironj assembly constituency, represented by MLA Umakant Sharma. The population is estimated at 158 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chirari →
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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