Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Kalyanpur observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Vikas Nagar mandal is Ghandiyal Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kalyanpur 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.
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By population, Kalyanpur ranks #89 of 141 villages in Vikas Nagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kalyanpur is a village of 627 people in 115 households (Census 2011) in Vikas Nagar tehsil, Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, the 89th-largest of 141 villages in Vikas Nagar tehsil. Literacy is 42%, 24 points below the tehsil average of 66% and the sex ratio is 866 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 248001, served by Araghar post office; the LGD village code is 45034. The village votes in Narendranagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Subodh Uniyal. The population is estimated at 739 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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