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Lanka 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.
Lanka is a village in Orchha mandal, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. With a population of 285 across 45 households, it has a literacy rate of 39.3%.
By population, Lanka ranks #16 of 81 villages in Orchha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lanka is a village of 285 people in 45 households (Census 2011) in Orchha tehsil, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 16th-largest of 81 villages in Orchha tehsil. Literacy is 39%, 13 points above the tehsil average of 27% and the sex ratio is 979 women per 1,000 men. It lies 25 km from the Narayanpur district centre, 51 km from Gidam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 494661, served by Narayanpur (Narayanpur) post office; the LGD village code is 450015. The sarpanch is SUKAY BAI MUHANDA. The population is estimated at 336 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Lanka →
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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