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Laimura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Durga Puja, from Shashthi to Dashami, in community pandals rather than at home. Sandhi Puja at the join of Ashtami and Navami, Sindoor Khela and immersion on Dashami.
The regional form observed across West Bengal, Odisha, Assam. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Laimura ranks #8 of 247 villages in Debagarh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Laimura is a village of 1,276 people in 327 households (Census 2011) in Debagarh block, Deogarh district, Odisha, the 8th-largest of 247 villages in Debagarh block. Literacy is 51%, 10 points below the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,013 women per 1,000 men. It lies 118 km from the Deogarh district centre, 43 km from Patasahi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 768108, served by Deogarh (Debagarh) post office; the LGD village code is 382609. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Laimura, <1 km away. The sarpanch is PRAMILA KISAN, and the village votes in Boudh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Saroj Kumar Pradhan. The population is estimated at 1,504 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Laimura →
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.
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