Thangan observes Bastar Dussehra on Monday, 21 September 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Dabhra mandal is The Sheorinarayana Temple, together with ruined brick temples in the same compound and the inscription built into the wall of the Chandrachuda temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Thangan itself.
By population, Thangan ranks #16 of 85 villages in Dabhra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Thangan is a village of 1,977 people in 479 households (Census 2011) in Dabhra tehsil, Sakti district, Chhattisgarh, the 16th-largest of 85 villages in Dabhra tehsil. Literacy is 66%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 946 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 495688, served by Dabhra post office; the LGD village code is 437131. The sarpanch is Yashoda Mahant, and the village votes in Bilaigarh assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kavita Pran Lahrey. The population is estimated at 2,331 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Thangan →
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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