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Chandapur 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, Chandapur ranks #114 of 142 villages in Kujang mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chandapur is a village of 192 people in 53 households (Census 2011) in Kujang block, Jagatsinghapur district, Odisha, the 114th-largest of 142 villages in Kujang block. Literacy is 72%, 7 points below the block average of 79% and the sex ratio is 811 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 754140, served by Rahama post office; the LGD village code is 397252. The sarpanch is Saroj Kumar Sethy, and the village votes in Surada assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nilamani Bisoyi. The population is estimated at 226 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pankapal →
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 Kujang mandal
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