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Kirama 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, Kirama ranks #47 of 155 villages in Chandrapur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kirama is a village of 221 people in 46 households (Census 2011) in Chandrapur block, Rayagada district, Odisha, the 47th-largest of 155 villages in Chandrapur block. Literacy is 29%, 3 points below the block average of 32% and the sex ratio is 956 women per 1,000 men. It lies 55 km from the Rayagada district centre, 45 km from Muniguda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765020, served by Muniguda post office; the LGD village code is 425071. The nearest hospital or health centre is Goverment hospital,kotagarh, 35 km away. The sarpanch is RANJITA BREKEBEDA. The population is estimated at 261 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chandrapur →
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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