Balangir District, also called Bolangir District, is a district situated in western Odisha state of India. The district has an area of 5,165 km2 (1,994 sq mi), and a population of 1,648,997. The town of Balangir is the district headquarters. The composition of the land is predominantly rural. Other important big & small towns in Balangir district are Titlagarh, Patnagarh, Kantabanji, Loisingha, Saintala, Belpada, Tushra, Agalpur, Deogaon, Chudapali, Biripali, Bhalumunda, Bangomunda, Sindhekela, Turekela and Muribahal.
Nuapada is a district in Odisha state in India. Nuapada town is the headquarters of the district. It has 1 Subdivision: Nuapada; five blocks: Khariar, Sinapali, Boden, Komna, and Nuapada. Nuapada District has 3 Notified Area Councils: Khariar, Khariar Road, and Nuapada; and 6 tehsils.
Bhawanipatna is a city, and district headquarters of the Kalahandi district, in the Indian state of Odisha. Bhawanipatna is a city of numerous temples dedicated to different deities of Hindu pantheon. It is named after the presiding deity, Bhawani-Shankar and Patna which means place in Odia like "Padaa". Bhawanipatna municipality is the administrative head of the city, which is divided into twenty wards with different sub-areas called pada. Originally, these padaas were inhabited by people of different communities, but over the last few decades, these padaas have become homogeneous. Bhawanipatna has more than forty padaas.
Khariar is a town and a Notified Area Council in Nuapada District of the Indian state of Odisha.
Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City, or DPS Bokaro, was established on 2 July 1987 as an English medium co-educational school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, India. The school is run by the Delhi Public School Society, New Delhi, an educational society. Dr. M S Tyagi was the first principal of the school and then Dr. Hemlata S Mohan served as the Principal. Mr. Awanindra Singh Gangwar is the current Principal.
Ravenshaw University is a co-educational state university situated in Cuttack, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Ravenshaw College in 1868, the institution became a university in 2006. The university has nine schools, thirty three academic departments and a student enrolment of nearly 8,000. It is one of the oldest educational institutes in the country and its history is synonymous with the history of modern Odisha.
The history of Kalahandi goes back to the primitive period where a well-civilized, urbanized, and cultured people inhabited this land mass around 2000 years ago. The world's largest celt of Stone Age and the largest cemetery of the megalithic age have been discovered in Kalahandi. This shows the region had a civilized culture since the pre-historic era. Asurgarh near Narla in Kalahandi was one of the oldest metropolises in Odisha whereas the other one was Sisupalgarh near Bhubaneswar. Some other historical forts in the region includes Budhigarh, Amthagarh, Belkhandi and Dadpur-Jajjaldeypur. This land was unconquered by the great Ashoka, who fought the great Kalinga War, as per Ashokan record. In medieval period the region had played a prominent role to link South India, Eastern India and Central India region and witnessed the battle ground for Somavamsi, Chola, Kalachuris of Kalyani and Eastern Ganga dynasty. Kalahandi region was the main route for Chola to attack Subarnapur.
Ghumura dance is a folk dance of Kalahandi district of the Indian state Odisha. It is classified as folk dance as the dress code of Ghumura resembles more like a tribal dance, but there are arguments about mudra and dance forms of Ghumura bearing more resemblance with other classical dance forms of India.
The Western Odisha Development Council sponsors upcoming medical colleges in Balangir, Kalahandi and Sundergarh district of Western Odisha. These medical colleges are partly sponsored by the Western Odisha Development Council in India.
The Board of Secondary Education, Odisha is a board of education for public and private schools under the state government of Odisha, India.
Sinapali is the main town in Sinapali Tehsil in the south of Nuapada District in Odisha, India. It is located on the Udanti River, 95 kilometres (59 mi) south of the district headquarters of Nuapada and 450 km (280 mi) from Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar. The village has a Gram panchayat. Its total geographical area is 297 hectares.
CRPF Public School in Prashant Vihar, Rohini is a recognized co-educational school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. It follows the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation pattern of education and offers education from grade levels Kindergarten to 12th Grade. The students in the school are divided into four houses namely, Shakti, Shaurya, Shradhha and Shram. The principal of the school is Mrs. Nidhi Chaudhary.
The eOdisha Summit 2013 was the first edition of the eOdisha Summit, a Conference, Exhibition and Awards Summit held on March 6, 2013 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India with themes of eGovernance, Information Technology (IT) and Healthcare. The eOdisha Summit 2013's Chief Guest was the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik and the guest of honors were Dr. Damodar Rout, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Odisha and Ram Sewak Sharma, Director General and Mission Director of UIDAI.
The eOdisha Summit 2014 was the second edition of the eOdisha Summit, a Conference, Exhibition and Awards Summit held on January 24, 2014 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India with themes of Governance, Information Technology (IT) and Healthcare. The eOdisha Summit 2014's Chief Guest was the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik and the Guest of Honors were Pratap Keshari Deb, Minister of Food Supplies and Consumers Welfare, Employment and Technical Education and Training, Information Technology (IT), Government of Odisha, Madhusudan Padhi, Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Department of Information Technology (IT), Government of Odisha, Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, Software Technology Parks of India and Dr. S S Mantha Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education.
Maharaja Pratap Keshari Deo was the last ruler of Kalahandi State 1939-1947 and an Indian politician in post-independence India. He was elected from the Kalahandi in Odisha to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha. He was deputy Leader of the Opposition, Orissa Legislative Assembly, 1952—56.
Bargaon or Baragan is a village under Khariar Tahasil in Nuapada district of Odisha state in India. It is situated 10 km away from sub-district headquarter Khariar and 63 km towards south from district headquarter Nuapada. The word "Bargaon" is composed of two words, "Bara" means 'Divine' and "gaan" means 'village'. On the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the village was recognised as "Lok Kala Gram" of Nuapada district by the Dept. Of Language, Literature and Culture, Government of Odisha
Sujeet Kumar is an Indian politician of the Biju Janata Dal party and a Member of Parliament (MP), representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha. He earlier served at senior policy planning positions with Government of Odisha - as the Advisor, in the rank of Chief Secretary, to the Special Development Council (SDC) of the Government of Odisha and Special Secretary of the Odisha State Planning Board. He is a trained engineer, lawyer and a policy maker.
