Jharbandh

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Jharbandh
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Jharbandh
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Jharbandh
Jharbandh (India)
Coordinates: 21°3′39.8916″N82°47′33.7596″E / 21.061081000°N 82.792711000°E / 21.061081000; 82.792711000
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Odisha
District Bargarh
Government
 • Typeblock
Elevation
265 m (869 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total3,669
Languages
 • Official Odia
 • Local Sambalpuri
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
768042
Vehicle registration OD17
Website odisha.gov.in

Jharbandh is a town in Bargarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. Jharbandh comes under the padmapur Vidhan Sabha in Odisha state and is under the Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency in India

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Geography

Jharbandh is located at 21°02′N82°28′E / 21.03°N 82.47°E / 21.03; 82.47 . It has an average elevation of 265 metres (869 ft). It is almost 132 kilometres (82 mi) from its district headquarters, Bargarh. It is about 502 kilometres (312 mi) from its capital city of Bhubaneshwar. Jharbandh is a block of Padampur subdivision, distance from Jharbandh to Padampur is about 56 kilometres (35 mi). The area around Jharbandh is rain-fed and hence is prone to frequent droughts. The Gandhamardhan hills is about 32 kilometres (20 mi) away and forms the borders between Bargarh and Balangir districts. To date, the beautiful locale has not been spoiled by industrialisation, but the per capita income is very low. Nrusinghanath Temple of Gandhamardhan hills is famous in all over the Odisha for lord Nrusingha.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census, [1] Jharbandh had a population of 2200. Jharbandh has a literacy rate of about nearly 61%.

Jharbandh Block

Jharbandh is the Panchayat Samiti headquarters consisting of 14 grampanchayats. [2]

The grampanchayats are:

  1. Bhandarpuri
  2. Dava
  3. Chhotanki
  4. Kurlupali
  5. Bhainsadarha
  6. Amthi
  7. Bilaspur
  8. Chandibhata
  1. Gothuguda
  2. Jagdalpur
  3. Kandadangar
  4. Kumir
  5. Laudidarha
  6. Jharbandh

Politics

Current MLA from Padmapur Assembly Constituency is barsa singh bariha of BJD who won the seat in by-elections in 2023. He was succeeded by Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha of BJD, who won the seat in State elections in 2009. [3] He also won this seat earlier for BJD in 2000 and for JD in 1995 and in 1990. Other previous MLAs from this seat were Satya Narayan Sahu of INC who won this seat in 2004, in 1985 for INC and in 1980 representing INC(I).

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References

  1. ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  2. ↑ "Odissa.in".
  3. ↑ "ws.ori.nic.in: ola/mlaprofile". Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
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