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Piplya observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Khirkiya mandal is Siddhanath Temple, Nemawar. No temple of this dedication is on record within Piplya 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, Piplya ranks #34 of 87 villages in Khirkiya mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Piplya is a village of 825 people in 169 households (Census 2011) in Khirkiya tehsil, Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, the 34th-largest of 87 villages in Khirkiya tehsil. Literacy is 70%, 11 points above the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 955 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 461441, served by Khirkiyan R.S. post office; the LGD village code is 486599. The sarpanch is POOJA, and the village votes in Khategaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aashish Govind Sharma. The population is estimated at 973 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pipliya Bharat →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piplya · this village | 825 | 70% | — |
| Kankakach · Khirkiya | 428 | 59% | — |
| Pahat Khurd · Khirkiya | 0 | — | — |
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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