Madhya Pradesh: Sleemanabad Tunnel Nears Completion, Narmada Water to Reach Rewa Farms
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Atara 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.
Atara is a small village in Mangawan mandal, Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, with a population of 51 in 14 households. The village has a literacy rate of 70.6% and is located at coordinates 24.527°N, 80.981°E.
By population, Atara ranks #237 of 292 villages in Mangawan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Atara is a village of 51 people in 14 households (Census 2011) in Mangawan tehsil, Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, the 237th-largest of 292 villages in Mangawan tehsil. Literacy is 71%, 10 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,125 women per 1,000 men. It lies 17 km from the Rewa district centre, 44 km from Gahira, the nearest town, 5 km from Hinautaramban railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 486338, served by Raghunathganj post office; the LGD village code is 465896. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Sajjanpur, 3 km away. The sarpanch is lal ajay pratap singh, and the village votes in Rampur-Baghelan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vikram Singh (Vicky). The population is estimated at 60 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ulahi-Khurd 55 →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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