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Bejuguda 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, Bejuguda ranks #5 of 40 villages in Khatiguda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bejuguda is a village of 862 people in 236 households (Census 2011) in Khatiguda block, Nabarangpur district, Odisha, the 5th-largest of 40 villages in Khatiguda block. Literacy is 45%, 5 points above the block average of 40% and the sex ratio is 1,028 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Nabarangpur district centre, 45 km from Ramabhadrapuram, the nearest town, 13 km from Kakiriguma railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 764085, served by Khatiguda post office; the LGD village code is 428042. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sri Rama Nursing Home, 28 km away. The sarpanch is KRUSHNA SOURA. The population is estimated at 1,016 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Lamtaguda →
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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