Bear enters Chhattisgarh's Surguja village, mauls 3 basking in sun; woman critical
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Pathrai 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, Pathrai ranks #43 of 54 villages in Batouli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pathrai is a village of 788 people in 198 households (Census 2011) in Batouli tehsil, Surguja district, Chhattisgarh, the 43rd-largest of 54 villages in Batouli tehsil. Literacy is 58%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 50% and the sex ratio is 941 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 497101, served by Batouli post office; the LGD village code is 433522. The sarpanch is Sanket Kumar Painkra, and the village votes in Abhanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Indra Kumar Sahu. The population is estimated at 929 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Basen →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathrai · this village | 788 | 58% | — |
| Basen · Batouli | 667 | 56% | — |
| Saraswatipur · Batouli | 531 | 38% | — |
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.
Centred on Batouli mandal
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