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Athwan Kalan 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, Athwan Kalan ranks #18 of 194 villages in Singoli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Athwan Kalan is a village of 1,047 people in 247 households (Census 2011) in Singoli tehsil, Neemuch district, Madhya Pradesh, the 18th-largest of 194 villages in Singoli tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 968 women per 1,000 men. It lies 45 km from the Neemuch district centre, 60 km from Gangrar, the nearest town, 34 km from Genoli Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 458226, served by Ratangarh post office; the LGD village code is 468471. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Kankriya Talai, 10 km away. The sarpanch is Koushlya Bai Dhakad, and the village votes in Jawad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Omprakash Sakhlecha. The population is estimated at 1,234 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Aathwabujurg →
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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