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Bhatadi observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
The principal temple recorded for Puncha mandal is atchala (harimandir). No temple of this dedication is on record within Bhatadi 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.
Bhatadi is a sparsely populated village in Puncha mandal, Purulia district, West Bengal, with only 5 residents in 1 household. The literacy rate is recorded at 40%, located at 23.201°N, 86.679°E with postal code 723151.
By population, Bhatadi ranks #99 of 109 villages in Puncha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhatadi is a village of 5 people in 1 households (Census 2011) in Puncha block, Purulia district, West Bengal, the 99th-largest of 109 villages in Puncha block. Literacy is 40%, 19 points below the block average of 59% and the sex ratio is 250 women per 1,000 men. It lies 21 km from the Purulia district centre, 44 km from Aguri Band Punisol, the nearest town, 28 km from Sirjam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 723151, served by Puncha post office; the LGD village code is 331043. The nearest hospital or health centre is Hura Rural Hospital, 12 km away. The sarpanch is Sadhan Kaibartta, and the village votes in Kashipur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kamala Kanta Hansda. The population is estimated at 6 in 2026, up 20% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bagda →
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.
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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