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Bartunga 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, Bartunga ranks #157 of 286 villages in Sarangarh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bartunga is a village of 501 people in 116 households (Census 2011) in Sarangarh tehsil, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh district, Chhattisgarh, the 157th-largest of 286 villages in Sarangarh tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,028 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496445, served by Sarangarh post office; the LGD village code is 435330. The sarpanch is Bhanu Pratap Singh. The population is estimated at 591 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Khudubhantha →
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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