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Kharauni observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Temples near Kharauni
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Hathua mandal is Hanuman Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kharauni 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.
Kharauni is a village in Hathua mandal, Gopalganj district, Bihar. With 3,453 residents across 539 households, it has a literacy rate of 50.1%. The village is situated at 25.480°N, 84.652°E with PIN code 841243.
By population, Kharauni ranks #18 of 108 villages in Hathua mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kharauni is a village of 3,453 people in 539 households (Census 2011) in Hathua block, Gopalganj district, Bihar, the 18th-largest of 108 villages in Hathua block. Literacy is 50%, 7 points below the block average of 57% and the sex ratio is 1,059 women per 1,000 men. It lies 88 km from the Gopalganj district centre, 3 km from Deoria, the nearest town, 5 km from Udwant Nagar Halt railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 841243, served by Sahpur post office; the LGD village code is 230612. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Morath, 7 km away. The village votes in Sakra assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aditya Kumar. The population is estimated at 4,071 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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