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Sehra 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.
Sehra is a village in Sambhal mandal, Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 2,061 residing in 307 households. The literacy rate is 49.2%, and the village is designated PIN code 244302.
By population, Sehra ranks #134 of 391 villages in Sambhal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sehra is a village of 2,061 people in 307 households (Census 2011) in Sambhal tehsil, Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, the 134th-largest of 391 villages in Sambhal tehsil. Literacy is 49%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 41% and the sex ratio is 923 women per 1,000 men. It lies 133 km from the Sambhal district centre, 6 km from Kuchesar, the nearest town, 12 km from Kuchesar Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 244302, served by Sambhal post office; the LGD village code is 115993. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt Hospital, 13 km away. The sarpanch is prem singh, and the village votes in Bisauli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ashutosh Maurya Alias Raju. The population is estimated at 2,430 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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