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Meltha observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Meltha
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Tharali mandal is Angiyari Mahadev Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Meltha 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.
By population, Meltha ranks #32 of 89 villages in Tharali mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
मेलथा उत्तराखण्ड के चमोली गढ़वाल जिले के Tharali तहसील में 330 लोगों 68 परिवारों में (जनगणना 2011) का एक गांव है, जो Tharali तहसील के 89 गांवों में 32वां सबसे बड़ा है। साक्षरता 85% है, जो तहसील औसत 70% से 14 अंक अधिक है और लिंगानुपात प्रति 1,000 पुरुषों पर 897 महिलाएं। यह चमोली गढ़वाल जिला मुख्यालय से 18 किमी, निकटतम कस्बे Sirauli से 25 किमी स्थित है (सीधी रेखा दूरी)। पिनकोड 246481 है, Tharali डाकघर द्वारा सेवित; एलजीडी गांव कोड 41705 है। निकटतम अस्पताल या स्वास्थ्य केंद्र Dinesh Joshi Medikose, Tharali है, 2 किमी दूर। सरपंच guddi devi हैं, और गांव Tharali विधानसभा क्षेत्र में आता है, जिसके विधायक Bhupal Ram Tamta हैं। 2026 में अनुमानित जनसंख्या 389 है, 2011 जनगणना से 18% अधिक।
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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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