Dewa is a village in

Jakhania Jakhania is a vidhan sabha seat in Ghazipur district in India. Bedi ram is a MLA from this seat. Jakhania (Jakhanian) station is situated at 70 km(nearly) from Varanasi Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a ...

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Ghazipur district Ghazipur district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Ghazipur is the district headquarters. The district is part of Varanasi Division. The region of Ghazipur is famous mainly for the production of its unique ros ...

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, India. It forms a part of

Varanasi division Varanasi division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Varanasi is the administrative headquarters of the division. Currently (2018), the division consists of districts of Varanasi, Chandauli, Ghazipur, and ...

and is situated on the border of Ghazipur-Azamgarh districts. It is located approximately north of the district headquarters at

Ghazipur Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ghazipur also constitute ...

, from

and from the state capital at

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

. The village is served by the nearby railway station at Dullahpur.

Model Village

In 2015, Deva was adopted as a Model village by

Manoj Sinha Manoj Sinha (born 1 July 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the 2nd and the current Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. He served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railway ...

, the Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Communication and Railways in the

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. Since then a new initiative to develop this village is taking shape.

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Villages in Ghazipur Uttar Pradesh
Villages in Ghazipur district {{Varanasi-geo-stub