Mal Forest observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
By population, Mal Forest ranks #19 of 38 villages in Gorubathan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mal Forest is a village of 1,024 people in 197 households (Census 2011) in Gorubathan block, Kalimpong district, West Bengal, the 19th-largest of 38 villages in Gorubathan block. Literacy is 66%, 2 points below the block average of 69% and the sex ratio is 962 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 735231, served by Fagu (Darjiling) post office; the LGD village code is 306345. The sarpanch is NIMA TAMANG, and the village votes in Kalimpong assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bharat Kumar Chetri. The population is estimated at 1,145 in 2026, up 12% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Garubathan-I →
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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