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Gonga 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, Gonga ranks #560 of 689 villages in Robertsganj mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gonga is a village of 141 people in 29 households (Census 2011) in Robertsganj tehsil, Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, the 560th-largest of 689 villages in Robertsganj tehsil. Literacy is 42%, 12 points below the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 1,074 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 231213, served by Ram Garh post office; the LGD village code is 213935. The sarpanch is Ramakbal, and the village votes in Salon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ashok Kumar. The population is estimated at 166 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Baradand →
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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