Rajasthan first State in northern India to complete digital identification of farmers
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Kooda observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Rajasthan.
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, Kooda ranks #120 of 154 villages in Gudha Malani mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kooda is a village of 407 people in 64 households (Census 2011) in Gudha Malani tehsil, Barmer district, Rajasthan, the 120th-largest of 154 villages in Gudha Malani tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 44% and the sex ratio is 976 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Barmer district centre, 31 km from Siwana, the nearest town, 4 km from Ajit railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 344031, served by Gudamalani post office; the LGD village code is 88156. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Majal, 5 km away. The population is estimated at 480 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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