Wild elephant electrocuted in MP's Mauganj
Reported by The New Indian Express.
Atariya observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Hanumana mandal is Santoshi Maa Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Atariya 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, Atariya ranks #28 of 333 villages in Hanumana mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Atariya is a village of 2,061 people in 461 households (Census 2011) in Hanumana tehsil, MAUGANJ district, Madhya Pradesh, the 28th-largest of 333 villages in Hanumana tehsil. Literacy is 52%, about the same as the tehsil average of 51% and the sex ratio is 912 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 486335, served by Hanumana post office; the LGD village code is 466318. The sarpanch is Janki prasad patel, and the village votes in Semariya assembly constituency, represented by MLA Abhay Mishra. The population is estimated at 2,430 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Atariya →
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.
Centred on Hanumana mandal
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