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Jalke 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, Jalke ranks #2 of 82 villages in Pasan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jalke is a village of 3,370 people in 699 households (Census 2011) in Pasan tehsil, Korba district, Chhattisgarh, the 2nd-largest of 82 villages in Pasan tehsil. Literacy is 40%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 45% and the sex ratio is 1,002 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495448, served by Pondi-Uproda post office; the LGD village code is 435993. The sarpanch is Fuleshwari Raj, and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 3,973 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Jalke →
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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