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Basantpoor

बसंतपूर
Rajatalab mandal
Pincode 221405
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Dussehra (Vijayadashami)दशहरा

Basantpoor observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar Pradesh.

20 OctObserved in 36 states
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Dussehra (Vijayadashami) in 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.

The Ramlila of Ramnagar

Across the river at Ramnagar the Ramlila runs for thirty-one days rather than an evening, staged without amplification across the town itself, with different quarters standing in for Ayodhya, Janakpur and Lanka. Ramlila was inscribed by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008, and the Ramnagar cycle has been kept for more than two hundred years.

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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
LS
Unnao
PC 33
→VS
Mohan
AC 164 · SC
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Meenu singh
Contact: 95****6697
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LGD code
209371
Pincode
221405
Post office
Hathi Bazar
Population
136
Households
23
Literacy rate
58.1%
Sex ratio
915 ♀/1000♂
Workers
46
Census 2011 · in context

How Basantpoor compares

By population, Basantpoor ranks #383 of 431 villages in Rajatalab mandal.

Literacy rate
%
58.1%
−4.0% vs mandal average
Basantpoor58.1%
Rajatalab mandal62.1%
Varanasi district65.4%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
915
−6 vs mandal average
Basantpoor915
Rajatalab mandal921
Household size
people per home
5.9
−1.1 vs mandal average
Basantpoor5.9
Rajatalab mandal7.0

Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).

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Basantpoor at a glance

Basantpoor is a village of 136 people in 23 households (Census 2011) in Rajatalab tehsil, Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh, the 383rd-largest of 431 villages in Rajatalab tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 915 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 221405, served by Hathi Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 209371. The sarpanch is Meenu singh, and the village votes in Mohan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Brajesh Kumar. The population is estimated at 160 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.

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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Basantpoor

Treated tap water
No
Untreated tap water
No
Well water
No
Hand pump
Yes
Tube well / borewell
No
Electricity for homes
Yes
Electricity for farms
Yes
Power hours (summer)
8
Power hours (winter)
8
Primary school
0
Middle school
0
Secondary school
0
Senior secondary
0
Degree college
0
Primary health centre
0
Health sub-centre
0
Community health centre
0
Dispensary
0
Veterinary hospital
0
Post office
No
Sub post office
No
Commercial bank
No
Cooperative bank
No
ATM
No
Public bus service
No
Private bus service
No
Railway station
Yes
Pucca (paved) road
No
Anganwadi centre
Yes
ASHA worker
Yes
Fair-price shop
Yes
Mandi / regular market
Yes
Weekly haat
Yes
Nearest statutory town
VARANASI
Distance to nearest town (km)
20
Distance to district HQ (km)
22
Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
25
All-weather road
No
Gram panchayat (2011)
BASANTPUR
Total area (ha)
20.46
Irrigated area (ha)
12.06
Forest area (ha)
0

Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.

Notice board · Basantpoor

No notices this week

Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.

Key facts — Basantpoor

LGD code
209371
Pincode
221405
Post office
Hathi Bazar
Population (Census 2011)
136
Population (projected 2026)
160
Households
23
Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
915
Literacy rate
58.1%
Lok Sabha constituency
Unnao
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Mohan
Member of Parliament
Sakshi Maharaj
Member of Legislative Assembly
Brajesh Kumar
Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
Meenu singh
Block / Mandal
Rajatalab
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Sources & freshness
  • Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
  • Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
  • Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
  • Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-25
  • Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
  • Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
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