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Bigara Bag observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Khatima mandal is Kalinka Devi Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Bigara Bag itself.
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.
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By population, Bigara Bag ranks #39 of 98 villages in Khatima mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bigara Bag is a village of 2,114 people in 392 households (Census 2011) in Khatima tehsil, Udam Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand, the 39th-largest of 98 villages in Khatima tehsil. Literacy is 68%, about the same as the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,021 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 262308, served by Khatima post office; the LGD village code is 56236. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 2,492 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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