Punjab faces severe storage crisis ahead of paddy procurement season from October 1
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Mainwal (122) observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Punjab.
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.
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By population, Mainwal (122) ranks #44 of 236 villages in Phillaur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mainwal (122) is a village of 1,963 people in 412 households (Census 2011) in Phillaur tehsil, Jalandhar district, Punjab, the 44th-largest of 236 villages in Phillaur tehsil. Literacy is 71%, about the same as the tehsil average of 71% and the sex ratio is 1,001 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 144035, served by Partappura post office; the LGD village code is 30031. The sarpanch is Gejo, and the village votes in Phillaur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary. The population is estimated at 2,314 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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