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Khoonta observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar 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, Khoonta ranks #15 of 424 villages in Bindki mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khoonta is a village of 5,315 people in 950 households (Census 2011) in Bindki tehsil, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, the 15th-largest of 424 villages in Bindki tehsil. Literacy is 45%, 17 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 855 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 212635, served by Bindki post office; the LGD village code is 156474. The sarpanch is KALAM SHAIKH , and the village votes in Sawayazpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Madhavendra Pratap Singh. The population is estimated at 6,266 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Khoonta →
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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