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Bataspur observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Temples near Bataspur
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Dumaria mandal is Manokamna Mahavir Mandir, Sormar. No temple of this dedication is on record within Bataspur 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.
Bataspur is a village in Dumaria mandal, Gaya district, Bihar, with 404 residents in 55 households and a literacy rate of 59.4%. Located at coordinates 25.942°N, 85.679°E, it shares PIN code 824221 with other villages in the mandal.
By population, Bataspur ranks #85 of 124 villages in Dumaria mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bataspur பீகார், கயா மாவட்டம், Dumaria வட்டாரம்ல் 404 பேர் 55 குடும்பங்களில் (2011 கணக்கெடுப்பு) வாழும் கிராமம், Dumaria வட்டாரம்ன் 124 கிராமங்களில் 85வது பெரியது. கல்வியறிவு 59%, வட்டாரம் சராசரி 45% விட 14 புள்ளிகள் அதிகம் மற்றும் பாலின விகிதம் 1,000 ஆண்களுக்கு 862 பெண்கள். இது கயா மாவட்டத் தலைமையகத்திலிருந்து 49 கி.மீ, அருகிலுள்ள நகரம் Harpur Pusaலிருந்து 3 கி.மீ, Vishnupur Bathua Halt ரயில் நிலையத்திலிருந்து 4 கி.மீ அமைந்துள்ளது (நேர்கோட்டு தூரம்). அஞ்சல் குறியீடு 824221, Dumaria அஞ்சலகத்தின் கீழ்; LGD கிராமக் குறியீடு 256174. அருகிலுள்ள மருத்துவமனை Goverment hospital,Pusa, 5 கி.மீ தொலைவில். ஊராட்சித் தலைவர் RAMBALI PASWAN; கிராமம் Kalyanpur சட்டமன்றத் தொகுதியில் உள்ளது, எம்எல்ஏ Maheshwar Hazari. 2026ல் மக்கள்தொகை 476 என மதிப்பிடப்படுகிறது, 2011ஐ விட 18% அதிகம்.
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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.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
2 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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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