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Phulbari observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
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.
Phulbari is a village in Dagarua mandal, Purnia district, Bihar, with a population of 1,569 spread across 342 households. The literacy rate is 54.1%, and it is situated at coordinates 25.568°N, 87.882°E with PIN code 854326.
By population, Phulbari ranks #51 of 154 villages in Dagarua mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Phulbari பீகார், பூர்ணியா மாவட்டம், Dagarua வட்டாரம்ல் 1,569 பேர் 342 குடும்பங்களில் (2011 கணக்கெடுப்பு) வாழும் கிராமம், Dagarua வட்டாரம்ன் 154 கிராமங்களில் 51வது பெரியது. கல்வியறிவு 54%, வட்டாரம் சராசரி 36% விட 18 புள்ளிகள் அதிகம் மற்றும் பாலின விகிதம் 1,000 ஆண்களுக்கு 913 பெண்கள். இது பூர்ணியா மாவட்டத் தலைமையகத்திலிருந்து 118 கி.மீ, அருகிலுள்ள நகரம் Kusahaலிருந்து 4 கி.மீ, Bhawanipur Bihar ரயில் நிலையத்திலிருந்து 3 கி.மீ அமைந்துள்ளது (நேர்கோட்டு தூரம்). அஞ்சல் குறியீடு 854326, Gulabbagh அஞ்சலகத்தின் கீழ்; LGD கிராமக் குறியீடு 224254. அருகிலுள்ள மருத்துவமனை Government Hospital, Salmari, 7 கி.மீ தொலைவில். ஊராட்சித் தலைவர் SMT GEETA DEVI; கிராமம் Dhamdaha சட்டமன்றத் தொகுதியில் உள்ளது, எம்எல்ஏ Leshi Singh. 2026ல் மக்கள்தொகை 1,850 என மதிப்பிடப்படுகிறது, 2011ஐ விட 18% அதிகம்.
கிராம பஞ்சாயத்து: Kohila →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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