Ekharajat Mahal Land Disputes: HC Pushes Odisha to Clarify 36-Village Status
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Suruguda 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, Suruguda ranks #268 of 327 villages in Lanjigarh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Suruguda is a village of 31 people in 6 households (Census 2011) in Lanjigarh block, Kalahandi district, Odisha, the 268th-largest of 327 villages in Lanjigarh block. Literacy is 32%, 5 points below the block average of 38% and the sex ratio is 1,214 women per 1,000 men. It lies 58 km from the Kalahandi district centre, 35 km from Sansartali railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 766020, served by Biswanathpur post office; the LGD village code is 423202. The nearest hospital or health centre is Christian Hospital,Bissamcuttack, 32 km away. The sarpanch is YAMUNA MAJHI. The population is estimated at 37 in 2026, up 19% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Lanji →
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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