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Pay observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Temples near Pay
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Rajnagar mandal is Chausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho. No temple of this dedication is on record within Pay 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.
Pay is a village in Rajnagar mandal, Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, with a population of 3,698 across 604 households and literacy rate of 43.9%. The village has a hospital and railway station, with postal code 471625.
By population, Pay ranks #9 of 112 villages in Rajnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
पाय मध्य प्रदेश के छतरपुर जिले के राजनगर तहसील में 3,698 लोगों 604 परिवारों में (जनगणना 2011) का एक गांव है, जो राजनगर तहसील के 112 गांवों में 9वां सबसे बड़ा है। साक्षरता 44% है, जो तहसील औसत 49% से 5 अंक कम है और लिंगानुपात प्रति 1,000 पुरुषों पर 922 महिलाएं। यह छतरपुर जिला मुख्यालय से 47 किमी, Rajnagar K रेलवे स्टेशन से 1 किमी स्थित है (सीधी रेखा दूरी)। पिनकोड 471625 है, Rajnager डाकघर द्वारा सेवित; एलजीडी गांव कोड 457990 है। निकटतम अस्पताल या स्वास्थ्य केंद्र Government Hospital Rajnagar है, 3 किमी दूर। सरपंच geeta patel हैं, और गांव Rajnagar विधानसभा क्षेत्र में आता है, जिसके विधायक Arvind Pateriya हैं। 2026 में अनुमानित जनसंख्या 4,360 है, 2011 जनगणना से 18% अधिक।
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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