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 north of the district headquarters at Ghazipur, from Jakhania and from the state capital at Lucknow. 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, 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.