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Janipadar observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Temples near Janipadar
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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, Janipadar ranks #77 of 301 villages in Dasapalla mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Janipadar is a village of 296 people in 75 households (Census 2011) in Dasapalla block, Nayagarh district, Odisha, the 77th-largest of 301 villages in Dasapalla block. Literacy is 62%, 5 points below the block average of 66% and the sex ratio is 910 women per 1,000 men. It lies 83 km from the Nayagarh district centre, 30 km from Bolagarh Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 752089, served by Banigochha post office; the LGD village code is 405636. The nearest hospital or health centre is Utkal Kidney Foundation Clinic, 6 km away. The sarpanch is Ashok Kumar NayK, and the village votes in Daspalla assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ramesh Chandra Behera. The population is estimated at 349 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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