Chhattisgarh: Six cattle die at temporary shelter in Bilaspur after heavy rains; villagers claim toll 30
Reported by Deccan Herald.
Ankdih 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.
By population, Ankdih ranks #33 of 51 villages in Masturi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ankdih is a village of 1,173 people in 292 households (Census 2011) in Masturi tehsil, Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, the 33rd-largest of 51 villages in Masturi tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 958 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495551, served by Masturi post office; the LGD village code is 438855. The sarpanch is ANJALI, and the village votes in Arang assembly constituency, represented by MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb. The population is estimated at 1,383 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ankhdih →
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 Masturi mandal
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