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Muktipur observes Durga Puja on Friday, 16 October 2026, along with the rest of West Bengal.
The principal temple recorded for Raina - I mandal is Rainagar JanaKalyan Sangha. No temple of this dedication is on record within Muktipur 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.
Muktipur is a village in Raina-I mandal, Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal, with a population of 893 in 200 households and a literacy rate of 77.9%. It is located at coordinates 23.901°N, 87.335°E.
By population, Muktipur ranks #75 of 112 villages in Raina - I mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Muktipur is a village of 893 people in 200 households (Census 2011) in Raina - I block, Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal, the 75th-largest of 112 villages in Raina - I block. Literacy is 78%, 6 points above the block average of 72% and the sex ratio is 892 women per 1,000 men. It lies 92 km from the Purba Bardhaman district centre, 2 km from Pratappur, the nearest town, 12 km from Dubrajpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 713424, served by Shyamsundar post office; the LGD village code is 320802. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rajnagar BPHC, 5 km away. The sarpanch is DOLI GHOSH, and the village votes in Raina assembly constituency, represented by MLA Subhash Patra. The population is estimated at 1,053 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Shyamsundar →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muktipur · this village | 893 | 78% | — |
| Muktipur · Rajnagar | 884 | 56% | 0 km N |
| Muktipur · Santuri | 253 | 48% | 0 km N |
| Tentulia Bandh · Rajnagar | 473 | 61% | 0.9 km N |
| Gaisara · Rajnagar | 631 | 63% | 0.9 km NW |
| Chak Jitua · Dubrajpur | 0 | — | 1.3 km E |
| Bahadurganja · Dubrajpur | 566 | 69% | 2 km SE |
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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