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Badealnar observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Bastar Dussehra runs about seventy-five days and is tied to Danteshwari rather than to the Ramayana — the longest observance of the festival anywhere.
The regional form observed across Bastar, Chhattisgarh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Bastar keeps what is reckoned among the longest festivals in the world, roughly seventy-five days, traced to the reign of Purushottam Dev in the thirteenth century. It does not mark Rama's victory over Ravana at all: it honours Danteshwari, the presiding goddess of the region, and is led by the tribal communities of the Bastar division, who bring their own deities to Jagdalpur for it.
By population, Badealnar ranks #25 of 57 villages in Bhanpuri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Badealnar is a village of 1,381 people in 299 households (Census 2011) in Bhanpuri tehsil, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, the 25th-largest of 57 villages in Bhanpuri tehsil. Literacy is 43%, about the same as the tehsil average of 43% and the sex ratio is 1,077 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 494224, served by Bhanpuri post office; the LGD village code is 449327. The sarpanch is MANGLI BAI BAGHEL, and the village votes in Keshkal assembly constituency, represented by MLA Neelkanth Tekam. The population is estimated at 1,628 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bade Alnar →
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.
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.
Centred on Bhanpuri mandal
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