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Thakurpali observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Temples near Thakurpali
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Basna mandal is Bhooteshwarnath. No temple of this dedication is on record within Thakurpali itself.
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, Thakurpali ranks #41 of 225 villages in Basna mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Thakurpali is a village of 1,017 people in 283 households (Census 2011) in Basna tehsil, Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh, the 41st-largest of 225 villages in Basna tehsil. Literacy is 70%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 986 women per 1,000 men. It lies 289 km from the Mahasamund district centre, 67 km from Kaklur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 493554, served by Basna post office; the LGD village code is 445841. The nearest hospital or health centre is District Headquarter Hospital,Malkangiri, 1 km away. The sarpanch is SANGEETA BARIHA, and the village votes in Sihawa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ambika Markam. The population is estimated at 1,199 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Thakurpali →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thakurpali · this village | 1,017 | 70% | — |
| Thakurpali · Loisinga | 405 | 61% | 0 km N |
| Thakurpali · Sarangarh | 510 | 58% | 0 km N |
| Thakurpali · Lahunipara | 360 | 52% | 0 km N |
| Thakurpali · Gurundia | 305 | 69% | 0 km N |
| Thakurpali · Barkot | 658 | 66% | 0 km N |
| Thakurpali · Dabhra | 1,005 | 68% | 0 km N |
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.
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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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