Rajasthan first State in northern India to complete digital identification of farmers
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Amarthoon observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Rajasthan.
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, Amarthoon ranks #5 of 169 villages in Ghatol mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Amarthoon is a village of 3,388 people in 744 households (Census 2011) in Ghatol tehsil, Banswara district, Rajasthan, the 5th-largest of 169 villages in Ghatol tehsil. Literacy is 45%, about the same as the tehsil average of 44% and the sex ratio is 979 women per 1,000 men. It lies 17 km from the Banswara district centre, 7 km from Ghatol, the nearest town, 69 km from Dhodhar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 327023, served by Ghatol post office; the LGD village code is 98626. The nearest hospital or health centre is Aashirwaad Hospital, 7 km away. The village votes in Bari Sadri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Gautam Kumar. The population is estimated at 3,994 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Amarthun →
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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