How Madhya Pradesh Farmers Are Adapting Solar Pumps to Protect Them From Theft
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Mahdewa observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
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, Mahdewa ranks #118 of 247 villages in Joura mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mahdewa is a village of 1,167 people in 210 households (Census 2011) in Joura tehsil, Morena district, Madhya Pradesh, the 118th-largest of 247 villages in Joura tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 56% and the sex ratio is 852 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 476221, served by Joura post office; the LGD village code is 452289. The sarpanch is Mukesh Adivasi, and the village votes in Bhitarwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mohan Singh Rathore. The population is estimated at 1,376 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kukrouli →
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 Joura mandal
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