Deva Village

Dewa is a village in Jakhania tehsil, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It forms a part of Varanasi division and is situated on the border of Ghazipur-Azamgarh districts. It is located approximately 32 kilometres (20 mi) north of the district headquarters at Ghazipur, five kilometres (3.1 mi) from Jakhania and 319 kilometres (198 mi) from the state capital at Lucknow. The village is served by the nearby railway station at Dullahpur.

Deva
Village[1]
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Coordinates: 25.8015474°N 83.415072°E / 25.8015474; 83.415072
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Ghazipur
Government
• Body	Gram panchayat
Population  (2011)
• Total	2,112[2]
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	275202[3]
Telephone code	05495
Vehicle registration	UP-61
Distance from New Delhi	854 kilometres (531 mi) NW (land)
Distance from Mumbai	1,590 kilometres (990 mi) SW (land)
Distance from Chennai	1,894 kilometres (1,177 mi) SE (land)
Distance from Kolkata	711 kilometres (442 mi) (land)
Climate	Cfa (Köppen)
Precipitation	980 millimetres (39 in)
Avg. annual temperature	32.0 °C (89.6 °F)
Avg. summer temperature	33.0 °C (91.4 °F)
Avg. winter temperature	5 °C (41 °F)

Model Village

In 2015, Deva was adopted as a Model village by Manoj Sinha, the Member of Parliament and Minister of State for Communication and Railways in the Government of India. Since then a new initiative to develop this village is taking shape.^[4]