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Gopalnagar observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
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, Gopalnagar ranks #17 of 142 villages in Bamangola mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gopalnagar is a village of 2,106 people in 438 households (Census 2011) in Bamangola block, Malda district, West Bengal, the 17th-largest of 142 villages in Bamangola block. Literacy is 47%, 14 points below the block average of 60% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 732138, served by Pakuahat post office; the LGD village code is 312862. The sarpanch is TULSI MANDAL. The population is estimated at 2,483 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Jagdala →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gopalnagar · this village | 2,106 | 47% | — |
| Chhatia · Bamangola | 1,966 | 53% | — |
| Ashrafpur · Bamangola | 1,559 | 48% | — |
| Sarmura · Bamangola | 1,456 | 58% | — |
| Pathar Jagdala · Bamangola | 1,345 | 63% | — |
| Mahadebpur · Bamangola | 1,206 | 66% | — |
| Olandar · Bamangola | 1,101 | 59% | — |
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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