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Bhimsila observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Bastar Dussehra runs about seventy-five days and is tied to Danteshwari rather than to the Ramayana — the longest observance of the festival anywhere.
The regional form observed across Bastar, Chhattisgarh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Bhimsila ranks #51 of 97 villages in Manora mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhimsila is a village of 518 people in 118 households (Census 2011) in Manora tehsil, Jashpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 51st-largest of 97 villages in Manora tehsil. Literacy is 59%, about the same as the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 870 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496330, served by Manora (Jashpur) post office; the LGD village code is 433928. The sarpanch is sagar prsad bhagat , and the village votes in Bindranawagarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Janak Ram Dhruw. The population is estimated at 611 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Khonga →
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.
Centred on Manora mandal
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