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Patpura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
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.
Patpura is a village in Dehri mandal, Rohtas district, Bihar, with a population of 1,617 across 258 households. The village has a literacy rate of 59.4% and uses PIN code 821305.
By population, Patpura ranks #38 of 58 villages in Dehri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Patpura is a village of 1,617 people in 258 households (Census 2011) in Dehri block, Rohtas district, Bihar, the 38th-largest of 58 villages in Dehri block. Literacy is 59%, 2 points below the block average of 62% and the sex ratio is 914 women per 1,000 men. It lies 115 km from the Rohtas district centre, 6 km from Semra, the nearest town, 3 km from Pahleja railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 821305, served by Dalmianagar post office; the LGD village code is 252570. The nearest hospital or health centre is Narayan Medical College And Hospital, 5 km away. The sarpanch is SHRIMATI KALAWATI DEVI , and the village votes in Obra assembly constituency, represented by MLA Prakash Chandra. The population is estimated at 1,906 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Patpura →
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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