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Amad 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, Amad ranks #29 of 182 villages in Manasa mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Amad is a village of 1,480 people in 358 households (Census 2011) in Manasa tehsil, Neemuch district, Madhya Pradesh, the 29th-largest of 182 villages in Manasa tehsil. Literacy is 36%, 19 points below the tehsil average of 56% and the sex ratio is 984 women per 1,000 men. It lies 17 km from the Neemuch district centre, 53 km from Bhensoda, the nearest town, 45 km from Matyakheri railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 458118, served by Rampura (Neemuch) post office; the LGD village code is 468934. The nearest hospital or health centre is Shree Ram Clinic, 7 km away. The sarpanch is manjubai dayma, and the village votes in Manasa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Aniruddha (Madhav) Maroo. The population is estimated at 1,745 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Amad →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amad · this village | 1,480 | 36% | — |
| Pagara Buzurg · Rampura | 44 | 5% | 3.5 km N |
| Matasara · Rampura | 16 | 19% | 3.8 km NE |
| Shivpuriya · Bhanpura | 0 | — | 3.9 km NW |
| Shivpuriya · Manasa | 1,200 | 50% | 3.9 km NW |
| Bilwas · Rampura | 781 | 28% | 4.4 km NE |
| Rawatpura · Manasa | 1,021 | 55% | 4.7 km S |
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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