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Shamnagar 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, Shamnagar ranks #62 of 134 villages in Bundwan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Shamnagar is a village of 576 people in 126 households (Census 2011) in Bundwan block, Purulia district, West Bengal, the 62nd-largest of 134 villages in Bundwan block. Literacy is 55%, 3 points above the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 953 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Purulia district centre, 28 km from Galudih railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 723129, served by Bundwan post office; the LGD village code is 332374. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bundwan BPHC, 8 km away. The sarpanch is LAXMIMANI MURMU, and the village votes in Bandwan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Labsen Baskey. The population is estimated at 644 in 2026, up 12% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chirudih →
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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