How ponds brought prosperity in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas
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Nanasa observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Kannod mandal is radha krishna mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Nanasa 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, Nanasa ranks #3 of 66 villages in Kannod mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Nanasa is a village of 4,299 people in 804 households (Census 2011) in Kannod tehsil, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, the 3rd-largest of 66 villages in Kannod tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 7 points above the tehsil average of 49% and the sex ratio is 962 women per 1,000 men. It lies 56 km from the Dewas district centre, 46 km from Palasner railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 455332, served by Kannod post office; the LGD village code is 473752. The nearest hospital or health centre is Civil Hospital,Kannod, 5 km away. The sarpanch is ROHIT TIWRI, and the village votes in Ashta assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gopal Singh Engineer. The population is estimated at 5,069 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Nanasa →
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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