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Salihari observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Tamnar mandal is temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Salihari 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, Salihari ranks #96 of 117 villages in Tamnar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Salihari is a village of 311 people in 74 households (Census 2011) in Tamnar tehsil, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, the 96th-largest of 117 villages in Tamnar tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 9 points below the tehsil average of 64% and the sex ratio is 932 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496107, served by Tamnar post office; the LGD village code is 434791. The sarpanch is Rajkumar Urav , and the village votes in Kasdol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sandeep Sahu. The population is estimated at 367 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kasdol →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salihari · this village | 311 | 55% | — |
| Kasdol · Tamnar | 1,527 | 70% | — |
| Kanta Jhariya · Tamnar | 204 | 59% | — |
| Ratrot · Tamnar | 21 | 71% | — |
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 Tamnar mandal
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