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Reported by Outlook Traveller.
Baghadola 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, Baghadola ranks #207 of 311 villages in Boipariguda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baghadola is a village of 104 people in 23 households (Census 2011) in Boipariguda block, Koraput district, Odisha, the 207th-largest of 311 villages in Boipariguda block. Literacy is 1%, 29 points below the block average of 30% and the sex ratio is 891 women per 1,000 men. It lies 62 km from the Koraput district centre, 33 km from Kotapar Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 764043, served by Boipariguda post office; the LGD village code is 429482. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Mathili, 22 km away. The village votes in Koraput assembly constituency, represented by MLA Raghuram Machha. The population is estimated at 123 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baghadola · this village | 104 | 1% | — |
| Dandakhal · Boipariguda | 140 | 11% | 0.4 km W |
| Khairpadar · Boipariguda | 287 | 20% | 0.7 km E |
| Ratakhandi · Khandapada | 64 | 56% | 1.3 km S |
| Ratakhandi · Balangir | 738 | 55% | 1.3 km S |
| Ratakhandi · Reamal | 121 | 58% | 1.3 km S |
| Ratakhandi · Manamunda | 894 | 68% | 1.3 km S |
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.
Reported by Outlook Traveller.
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