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Bara observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Temples near Bara
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Parihar mandal is Shiv Shankar Sankat Mochan Hanuman Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Bara itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Bara is a village in Parihar mandal, Sitamarhi district, Bihar with a population of 2,464 and 498 households. The literacy rate is 41.2%. The village is situated at coordinates 25.512°N, 83.855°E under PIN code 843324.
By population, Bara ranks #52 of 84 villages in Parihar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bara ಬಿಹಾರದ Sitamarhi ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, Parihar ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ದಲ್ಲಿ 2,464 ಜನಸಂಖ್ಯೆ 498 ಕುಟುಂಬಗಳಲ್ಲಿ (2011 ಜನಗಣತಿ) ಇರುವ ಗ್ರಾಮ, Parihar ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ದ 84 ಗ್ರಾಮಗಳಲ್ಲಿ 52ನೇ ದೊಡ್ಡದು. ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ 41%, ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ ಸರಾಸರಿ 37% ಗಿಂತ 4 ಅಂಕ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಮತ್ತು ಲಿಂಗಾನುಪಾತ 1,000 ಪುರುಷರಿಗೆ 895 ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು. ಇದು Sitamarhi ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಕೇಂದ್ರದಿಂದ 223 ಕಿ.ಮೀ, ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಪಟ್ಟಣ Baraದಿಂದ 0 ಕಿ.ಮೀ, Barakalan ರೈಲು ನಿಲ್ದಾಣದಿಂದ 2 ಕಿ.ಮೀ ಇದೆ (ನೇರ ರೇಖೆ ದೂರ). ಪಿನ್ಕೋಡ್ 843324, Parihar ಅಂಚೆ ಕಚೇರಿ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ; LGD ಗ್ರಾಮ ಕೋಡ್ 219177. ಹತ್ತಿರದ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ Government Hospital, Buxar, 11 ಕಿ.ಮೀ ದೂರ. ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು Ramshresth chaudhary; ಗ್ರಾಮ Madhubani ವಿಧಾನಸಭಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿದೆ, ಶಾಸಕ Madhaw Anand. 2026ರಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂದಾಜು ಜನಸಂಖ್ಯೆ 6,670, 2011ಕ್ಕಿಂತ 171% ಹೆಚ್ಚು.
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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.
2 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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