Gitkera observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Palari mandal is Arang Jain temples. No temple of this dedication is on record within Gitkera itself.
By population, Gitkera ranks #56 of 131 villages in Palari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gitkera is a village of 1,379 people in 272 households (Census 2011) in Palari tehsil, Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, Chhattisgarh, the 56th-largest of 131 villages in Palari tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 973 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 493196, served by Grasim Vihar Rawan post office; the LGD village code is 443858. The sarpanch is KARTIK RAM BANJARE, and the village votes in Arang assembly constituency, represented by MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb. The population is estimated at 1,626 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Gitkera →
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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