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Teghari observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
Temples near Teghari
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Tarakeswar mandal is tarakeswar Shiva temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Teghari 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.
Teghari is a village in Tarakeswar mandal, Hooghly district, West Bengal, located at 22.444°N, 88.418°E. It has a population of 3,099 across 743 households with a literacy rate of 75%. The village's postal code is 712410.
By population, Teghari ranks #16 of 90 villages in Tarakeswar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Teghari is a village of 3,099 people in 743 households (Census 2011) in Tarakeswar block, Hooghly district, West Bengal, the 16th-largest of 90 villages in Tarakeswar block. Literacy is 75%, 3 points above the block average of 72% and the sex ratio is 949 women per 1,000 men. It lies 59 km from the Hooghly district centre, 3 km from Balia, the nearest town, 1 km from Narendrapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 712410, served by Tarakeswar post office; the LGD village code is 324446. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kalpana Maternity and Nursing Home, South 24 Parganas, 2 km away. The sarpanch is RAJ KUMAR SANTRA, and the village votes in Haripal assembly constituency, represented by MLA Madhumita Ghosh. The population is estimated at 3,654 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Santoshpur →
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.
8 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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