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Lahiya 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, Lahiya ranks #239 of 283 villages in Chitrangi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lahiya is a village of 232 people in 33 households (Census 2011) in Chitrangi tehsil, Singrauli district, Madhya Pradesh, the 239th-largest of 283 villages in Chitrangi tehsil. Literacy is 45%, about the same as the tehsil average of 45% and the sex ratio is 917 women per 1,000 men. It lies 44 km from the Singrauli district centre, 19 km from Rewa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 486882, served by Chitrangi post office; the LGD village code is 503438. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC Jhinna, 15 km away. The sarpanch is amit singh, and the village votes in Gurh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nagendra Singh. The population is estimated at 274 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dewara →
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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