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Chak Thakurani observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
Temples near Chak Thakurani
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Udaynarayanpur mandal is Rasmancha of Sridharnathjiu of Samanta family. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chak Thakurani 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.
Chak Thakurani is a village in Udaynarayanpur mandal, Howrah district, West Bengal, with a population of 828 residents in 212 households and a literacy rate of 63.4%. The village has multiple temples, hospitals, primary health centres, shops, and an ATM.
By population, Chak Thakurani ranks #70 of 75 villages in Udaynarayanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chak Thakurani is a village of 828 people in 212 households (Census 2011) in Udaynarayanpur block, Howrah district, West Bengal, the 70th-largest of 75 villages in Udaynarayanpur block. Literacy is 63%, 10 points below the block average of 73% and the sex ratio is 1,112 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Howrah district centre, 6 km from Banhugli, the nearest town, 2 km from Thakurpukur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 711226, served by Udaynarayanpur post office; the LGD village code is 332514. Mapped within or next to the village: primary health centre, bank. The sarpanch is Tanushree Pandit, and the village votes in Udaynarayanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Samir Kumar Panja. The population is estimated at 976 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Singti →
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.
7 Temples, 1 Church mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
10 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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