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Sanjay Nagar observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
Temples near Sanjay Nagar
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Latori mandal is Laxman Temple, Sirpur. No temple of this dedication is on record within Sanjay Nagar 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.
Sanjay Nagar is a village in Latori mandal, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh with a population of 1,324 spread across 295 households and a literacy rate of 68.9%. The village has access to two railway stations and one hospital.
By population, Sanjay Nagar ranks #27 of 62 villages in Latori mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sanjay Nagar is a village of 1,324 people in 295 households (Census 2011) in Latori tehsil, Surajpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 27th-largest of 62 villages in Latori tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 15 points above the tehsil average of 54% and the sex ratio is 970 women per 1,000 men. It lies 196 km from the Surajpur district centre, 2 km from Chhulha railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 497229, served by Surajpur post office; the LGD village code is 432576. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ashirwad Hospital Critical Care & Trauma Center, 3 km away. The sarpanch is SUMARI, and the village votes in Arang assembly constituency, represented by MLA Guru Khushwant Saheb. The population is estimated at 1,561 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Sanjaynagar →
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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