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Mandar observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
Temples near Mandar
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Nanoor mandal is Ujani Shaktipeeth Kali temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Mandar itself.
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.
Mandar is a village in Nanoor mandal, Birbhum district, West Bengal, with a population of 894 distributed among 230 households and a literacy rate of 67.3%. Located at 23.659°N, 87.884°E, the village has postal code 731301.
By population, Mandar ranks #89 of 136 villages in Nanoor mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mandar is a village of 894 people in 230 households (Census 2011) in Nanoor block, Birbhum district, West Bengal, the 89th-largest of 136 villages in Nanoor block. Literacy is 67%, 7 points above the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 874 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Birbhum district centre, 4 km from Madda, the nearest town, 11 km from Daskalgram railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 731301, served by Ch.Nanoor post office; the LGD village code is 317660. The nearest hospital or health centre is Nanoor RH, 5 km away. The sarpanch is FALGUNI SAHA, and the village votes in Nanoor assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bidhan Chandra Majhi. The population is estimated at 1,054 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Barasaota →
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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