Jikar observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Assam.
By population, Jikar ranks #29 of 85 villages in Badarpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jikar is a village of 1,719 people in 342 households (Census 2011) in Badarpur block, Karimganj district, Assam, the 29th-largest of 85 villages in Badarpur block. Literacy is 61%, 7 points below the block average of 69% and the sex ratio is 971 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 788712, served by Settlement Road post office; the LGD village code is 300171. The sarpanch is president, and the village votes in Badarpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Abdul Aziz. The population is estimated at 2,027 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dakhin Badarpur →
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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