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Kotha observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Rath mandal is Hanuman Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kotha 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, Kotha ranks #82 of 138 villages in Rath mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kotha is a village of 542 people in 127 households (Census 2011) in Rath tehsil, Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, the 82nd-largest of 138 villages in Rath tehsil. Literacy is 53%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 57% and the sex ratio is 844 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 210431, served by Rath post office; the LGD village code is 153879. The sarpanch is girja, and the village votes in Amritpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sushil Kumar Shakya. The population is estimated at 639 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bakrai →
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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