Devotees including two women harassed in Odisha's Dhenkanal, video surfaced on social media
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Baghadharia 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, Baghadharia ranks #35 of 101 villages in Hindol mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baghadharia is a village of 987 people in 271 households (Census 2011) in Hindol block, Dhenkanal district, Odisha, the 35th-largest of 101 villages in Hindol block. Literacy is 66%, about the same as the block average of 66% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 759020, served by Balimi post office; the LGD village code is 403074. The sarpanch is MANAS CHANDRA DEHURY, and the village votes in Daspalla assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ramesh Chandra Behera. The population is estimated at 1,164 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Nuabag →
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.
Centred on Hindol mandal
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