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Agiaon observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
The principal temple recorded for Piro mandal is chaurain mahavir mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Agiaon 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.
By population, Agiaon ranks #4 of 109 villages in Piro mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Agiaon is a village of 7,545 people in 1,044 households (Census 2011) in Piro block, Bhojpur district, Bihar, the 4th-largest of 109 villages in Piro block. Literacy is 52%, 6 points below the block average of 59% and the sex ratio is 914 women per 1,000 men. It lies 106 km from the Bhojpur district centre, 8 km from Belaur, the nearest town, 5 km from Garhani railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 802202, served by Agiaon Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 247343. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Morath, 10 km away. The sarpanch is SUNITA DEVI, and the village votes in Shahpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rakesh Ranjan. The population is estimated at 8,896 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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