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Maynaguri observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
Temples near Maynaguri
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Kharibari mandal is kali maa mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Maynaguri itself.
Durga Puja, from Shashthi to Dashami, in community pandals rather than at home. Sandhi Puja at the join of Ashtami and Navami, Sindoor Khela and immersion on Dashami.
The regional form observed across West Bengal, Odisha, Assam. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Maynaguri is a village in Kharibari mandal, Darjeeling district, West Bengal, with a population of 1,704 across 347 households and a literacy rate of 55.7%. The village has a railway station, hospital, pharmacy, bank, and nine shops.
By population, Maynaguri ranks #22 of 74 villages in Kharibari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Maynaguri is a village of 1,704 people in 347 households (Census 2011) in Kharibari block, Darjeeling district, West Bengal, the 22nd-largest of 74 villages in Kharibari block. Literacy is 56%, about the same as the block average of 57% and the sex ratio is 900 women per 1,000 men. It lies 61 km from the Darjeeling district centre, 11 km from Saptibari, the nearest town, 1 km from New Maynaguri railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 734427, served by Khoribari post office; the LGD village code is 306799. Mapped within or next to the village: primary school, bank. The sarpanch is SANTANA SINGHA, and the village votes in Phansidewa assembly constituency, represented by MLA Durga Murmu. The population is estimated at 1,906 in 2026, up 12% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Raniganj-Panishali →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maynaguri · this village | 1,704 | 56% | — |
| Uttar Madhabdanga · Maynaguri | 6,610 | 71% | 2.1 km S |
| Madhya Khagrabari · Maynaguri | 2,786 | 67% | 2.3 km E |
| Uttar Mauamari · Maynaguri | 4,978 | 65% | 3.1 km NW |
| Bagjan · Maynaguri | 2,449 | 69% | 3.2 km NW |
| Madhabdanga · Maynaguri | 1,423 | 59% | 3.6 km SW |
| Uttar Khagrabari · Maynaguri | 5,076 | 69% | 3.8 km NE |
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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