3 UP districts hit 100% farmer registry target, lead digital agriculture push
Reported by The Times of India.
Urgaon 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.
Urgaon is a village in Jalaun mandal, Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh with a population of 2,996 across 496 households. The village has a literacy rate of 65.4% and is located at 26.131°N, 79.398°E under PIN code 285123.
By population, Urgaon ranks #13 of 220 villages in Jalaun mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Urgaon is a village of 2,996 people in 496 households (Census 2011) in Jalaun tehsil, Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh, the 13th-largest of 220 villages in Jalaun tehsil. Literacy is 65%, about the same as the tehsil average of 66% and the sex ratio is 885 women per 1,000 men. It lies 73 km from the Jalaun district centre, 31 km from Ait, the nearest town, 18 km from Orai railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 285123, served by Jalaun post office; the LGD village code is 151357. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Madori, 13 km away. The sarpanch is SHARDA , and the village votes in Jaswantnagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shivpal Singh Yadav. The population is estimated at 3,532 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Urgaon →
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.
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