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Balampur observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Ghiror mandal is KHAPADIYA BABA ASHRAM. No temple of this dedication is on record within Balampur 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.
Balampur is a village in Ghiror mandal, Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,584 in 246 households. It has a literacy rate of 63.4%, PIN code 205267, and is situated at coordinates 28.043°N, 77.732°E.
By population, Balampur ranks #45 of 86 villages in Ghiror mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balampur is a village of 1,584 people in 246 households (Census 2011) in Ghiror tehsil, Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh, the 45th-largest of 86 villages in Ghiror tehsil. Literacy is 63%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 827 women per 1,000 men. It lies 170 km from the Mainpuri district centre, 8 km from Pisava, the nearest town, 18 km from Danwar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 205267, served by Sultanganj (Mainpuri) post office; the LGD village code is 126224. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 8 km away. The sarpanch is Ombati, and the village votes in Etah assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vipin Kumar David. The population is estimated at 1,868 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Devi Balampur →
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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