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Malasa observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Mohammadabad mandal is Shiv Shakti Dham. No temple of this dedication is on record within Malasa itself.
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.
Malasa is a village in Mohammadabad mandal, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,134 across 281 households and a literacy rate of 61.1%. The village has railway connectivity and PIN code 233233.
By population, Malasa ranks #144 of 707 villages in Mohammadabad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Malasa is a village of 1,134 people in 281 households (Census 2011) in Mohammadabad tehsil, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, the 144th-largest of 707 villages in Mohammadabad tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 1 points above the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 919 women per 1,000 men. It lies 115 km from the Ghazipur district centre, 54 km from Sarsaul, the nearest town, 5 km from Malasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 233233, served by Khardiha post office; the LGD village code is 206164. The nearest hospital or health centre is Musanagar Government Hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is geeta devi, and the village votes in Mohanlalganj assembly constituency, represented by MLA Amresh Kumar. The population is estimated at 1,337 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Malasa →
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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