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Nandapuri observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
By population, Nandapuri ranks #20 of 123 villages in Mauda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Nandapuri is a village of 1,433 people in 316 households (Census 2011) in Mauda taluka, Nagpur district, Maharashtra, the 20th-largest of 123 villages in Mauda taluka. Literacy is 72%, about the same as the taluka average of 73% and the sex ratio is 985 women per 1,000 men. It lies 64 km from the Nagpur district centre, 32 km from Malegaon, the nearest town, 7 km from Ramtek railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 441106, served by Ramtek post office; the LGD village code is 535611. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school. The sarpanch is vanita manoj naukarkar, and the village votes in Hingna assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sameer Dattatraya Meghe. The population is estimated at 1,690 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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