Ashta observes Ganesh Nimajjanam on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, along with the rest of Telangana.
Temples near Ashta
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Mudhole mandal is Mahadev Mandir, Sirala. No temple of this dedication is on record within Ashta itself.
Called Vinayaka Chavithi. Clay idols, the 21-leaf puja and undrallu are central. Community mandapams run for days, the Khairatabad idol in Hyderabad being the largest and drawing the biggest immersion procession.
The regional form observed across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Ashta ranks #3 of 23 villages in Mudhole mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ashta is a village of 2,492 people in 646 households (Census 2011) in Mudhole mandal, Nirmal district, Telangana, the 3rd-largest of 23 villages in Mudhole mandal. Literacy is 48%, about the same as the mandal average of 48% and the sex ratio is 1,107 women per 1,000 men. It lies 30 km from the Nirmal district centre, 11 km from Mudhole, the nearest town, 10 km from Basar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 504101, served by Basar (Adilabad) post office; the LGD village code is 570269. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sri Saraswathi Hospital, 8 km away. The population is estimated at 2,938 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ashta →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashta · this village | 2,492 | 48% | — |
| Voni · Basar | 943 | 54% | 2.9 km SW |
| Kirgul (Khurd) · Basar | 1,629 | 44% | 2.9 km W |
| Brahmangaon · Mudhole | 1,397 | 40% | 3 km NW |
| Kowtha · Basar | 922 | 51% | 3.5 km S |
| Ganora · Mudhole | 853 | 41% | 3.9 km NW |
| Surli · Basar | 133 | 50% | 4 km SE |
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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