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Alara observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Temples near Alara
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Narasinghpur mandal is Jagannath Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Alara itself.
Durga Puja, from Shashthi to Dashami, in community pandals rather than at home. Sandhi Puja at the join of Ashtami and Navami, Sindoor Khela and immersion on Dashami.
The regional form observed across West Bengal, Odisha, Assam. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Cuttack frames its goddesses against chandi medha — backdrops worked in the city's own silver filigree. The first was raised at Choudhury Bazar in 1956; they now stand twenty to twenty-five feet and carry between one and six quintals of silver, and by 2023 the city counted thirty-two of them. The filigree trade and the festival keep each other going.
Alara is a village in Narasinghpur mandal, Cuttack district, Odisha, with a population of 1,349 across 300 households. It has a literacy rate of 80.2% and PIN code 754032.
By population, Alara ranks #32 of 209 villages in Narasinghpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Alara એ ઑડિશાના કટક જિલ્લાના Narasinghpur બ્લોકમાં 1,349 લોકોની વસ્તી 300 કુટુંબોમાં (વસ્તી ગણતરી 2011) ધરાવતું ગામ છે, જે Narasinghpur બ્લોકના 209 ગામોમાં 32મું મોટું છે. સાક્ષરતા 80% છે, બ્લોક સરેરાશ 67% કરતાં 13 પોઇન્ટ વધુ અને જાતિ પ્રમાણ દર 1,000 પુરુષોએ 887 સ્ત્રીઓ. તે કટક જિલ્લા મથકથી 21 કિમી, Nuagaon રેલવે સ્ટેશનથી 27 કિમી આવેલું છે (સીધી રેખાનું અંતર). પિનકોડ 754032 છે, Narasinghpur પોસ્ટ ઓફિસ હેઠળ; LGD ગામ કોડ 398581 છે. નજીકની હોસ્પિટલ Government Hospital, 3 કિમી દૂર. સરપંચ PRAMODINI NAYAK છે; ગામ Daspalla વિધાનસભા મતવિસ્તારમાં આવે છે, ધારાસભ્ય Ramesh Chandra Behera. 2026માં અંદાજિત વસ્તી 1,590, 2011 કરતાં 18% વધુ.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
4 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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