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Chitkura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar 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, Chitkura ranks #161 of 305 villages in Atrauli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chitkura is a village of 1,671 people in 263 households (Census 2011) in Atrauli tehsil, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, the 161st-largest of 305 villages in Atrauli tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 1 points below the tehsil average of 51% and the sex ratio is 865 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 202133, served by Dadon post office; the LGD village code is 122308. The sarpanch is GIRAND SINGH, and the village votes in Shekhupur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Himanshu Yadav. The population is estimated at 1,970 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chitkura →
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.
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.
Centred on Atrauli mandal
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