Rajasthan panchayat polls: BJP, Congress recalibrating strategies after civic election lessons
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Uttamdesar observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Rajasthan.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Uttamdesar ranks #74 of 139 villages in Lunkaransar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Uttamdesar is a village of 946 people in 144 households (Census 2011) in Lunkaransar tehsil, Bikaner district, Rajasthan, the 74th-largest of 139 villages in Lunkaransar tehsil. Literacy is 46%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 51% and the sex ratio is 919 women per 1,000 men. It lies 38 km from the Bikaner district centre, 43 km from Napasar, the nearest town, 3 km from Dhirera railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 334603, served by Lunkaransar post office; the LGD village code is 69270. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dhanvantari Hospital, 23 km away. The village votes in Lunkaransar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sumit Godara. The population is estimated at 1,115 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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