Ex-CM Uma Bharti renews call for total alcohol prohibition in Madhya Pradesh after Sagar hooch tragedy
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Mau observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Banda mandal is Shri Dev Laxmi Narayan Mandir Bandri. No temple of this dedication is on record within Mau itself.
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, Mau ranks #81 of 179 villages in Banda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mau is a village of 824 people in 173 households (Census 2011) in Banda tehsil, Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, the 81st-largest of 179 villages in Banda tehsil. Literacy is 50%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 57% and the sex ratio is 864 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 470335, served by Banda Belai post office; the LGD village code is 460177. The sarpanch is Leelavti lodh, and the village votes in Khurai assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bhupendra Singh. The population is estimated at 971 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Rakhsi →
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 Banda mandal
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