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Udani 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, Udani ranks #50 of 85 villages in Saikheda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Udani is a village of 805 people in 148 households (Census 2011) in Saikheda tehsil, Narsimhapur district, Madhya Pradesh, the 50th-largest of 85 villages in Saikheda tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 881 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Narsimhapur district centre, 28 km from Bankhedi, the nearest town, 30 km from Gadarwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 487661, served by Sainkheda (Narsinghpur) post office; the LGD village code is 490795. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital, 7 km away. The sarpanch is Pradeep Srivastava, and the village votes in Udaipura assembly constituency, represented by MLA Narendra Shivaji Patel. The population is estimated at 949 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Jhiriyamata →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Udani · this village | 805 | 56% | — |
| Udaka · Kotar | 90 | 43% | 0.2 km SW |
| Udaka · Deori | 308 | 57% | 0.2 km SW |
| Konda Deori · Deori | 408 | 55% | 1.2 km NE |
| Pipariya Kalan · Saikheda | 1,553 | 58% | 1.3 km E |
| Pipariya · Gadarwara | 185 | 42% | 1.3 km E |
| Pipariya · Gadarwara | 218 | 46% | 1.3 km E |
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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