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Manikpur observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
The principal temple recorded for Pandarak mandal is Bam Kali Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Manikpur 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, Manikpur ranks #29 of 72 villages in Pandarak mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Manikpur is a village of 1,684 people in 205 households (Census 2011) in Pandarak block, Patna district, Bihar, the 29th-largest of 72 villages in Pandarak block. Literacy is 47%, 1 points below the block average of 48% and the sex ratio is 942 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 803214, served by Barh Rs post office; the LGD village code is 246460. The village votes in Alamnagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Narendra Narayan Yadav. The population is estimated at 1,985 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kondi →
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.
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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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