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Hardi observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Lormi mandal is Siddheshwar Mandir, Palari. No temple of this dedication is on record within Hardi itself.
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, Hardi ranks #43 of 170 villages in Lormi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hardi is a village of 1,279 people in 285 households (Census 2011) in Lormi tehsil, Mungeli district, Chhattisgarh, the 43rd-largest of 170 villages in Lormi tehsil. Literacy is 52%, 2 points above the tehsil average of 50% and the sex ratio is 968 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495115, served by Lormi post office; the LGD village code is 437742. The sarpanch is devmati bhaskar , and the village votes in Baloda Bazar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tank Ram Verma. The population is estimated at 1,508 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hardi →
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.
Centred on Lormi mandal
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