Kendujhar is a town with municipality in Kendujhar District in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kendujhar district, and it is one of the fifth scheduled areas of Odisha.
Anandapur (ଆନନ୍ଦପୁର) is a town and a municipality of Kendujhar district in the state of Odisha, India.
Byasanagar or Vyasanagar is a town and a municipality in Jajapur district in the state of Odisha, India. It is also coloquially known as Jajpur Road. It is home to an industrial belt and hosts several steel companies, including Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited, MESCO, Tata Steel, and Jindal Steel. According to district officials, there are around 14 major companies and several small companies in the vicinity of the town. The town is also home to some eminent people in Odisha, including P. C. Ghadei, the late Ashok Das, Ram Chandra Khuntia (Congress), political leader Giridhari Barik (BJD), Priti Ranjan Ghadei (MLA), actor Akash Dasnayak, his actress aunt Ms. Anita Dash, and actress Naina Das. It is part of the Korei Vidhan Sabha constituency.
Champua is a notified area council in Kendujhar district in the state of Odisha, India.As per SC & ST department of Odisha, the Champua sub-division is under scheduled areas of Odisha. Nicholson Forest training institute is present here. The suburb has its importance as it provides a major trade route for transport of iron ore and manganese from some of the major mines of the state to the nearest port & out-state depots. It is also known for its pre-independence truss bridge built by British rulers, the judicial buildings of the same period as well as a few educational institutes who have a good reputation in the state. The river Baitarani flows by Champua, which is one of the largest rivers of the state second only to Mahanadi.
Kendujhar District, is an administrative district of Odisha. The district is one of the fifth Scheduled Areas of Odisha. The town of Kendujhar is the district headquarters. The district has three sub-divisions, Anandapur, Champua, and Kendujhar.
Tulasi Munda is a social activist from the Indian state of Odisha. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2001 by Government of India for her contribution to spreading literacy among the impoverished adivasi peoples of Odisha. Munda started an informal school in 1964 in Odisha's iron ore mining area to educate children from local adivasi populations, who would otherwise have ended up as child labour in the mines. She had been a child labourer in the mines of Keonjhar herself.
Tattwa Prakash Satapathy, better known by his stage name Papu Pom Pom, is an Indian film, television, Music Director, standup comedian and an Odisha Legislative Assembly candidate. Satapathy has acted in over 50 Odia movies. He was the main lead in the well-known Odia television comedy serial 'Excuse Me: Jaha Kahibi Sata Kahibi, Faltu Katha, Eita Bayata. He acted more than 500 characters in Television.
Khandadhar Falls is located in Kendujhar district in the Indian state of Odisha.
Anandapur is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendujhar district.
Champua is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendujhar district.
Keonjhar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendujhar district.
Patna is one of the 147 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Odisha state in India. It is in Kendujhar district" and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. It is a segment of the Kendujhar parliamentary constituency.
Jitu Patnaik is a politician from Odisha, India. He represented the Champua between the year 2009 to 2014. In the year 2009 he won the Champua seat from his nearest rival Sanatan Mahakud by a paltry margin of 145 votes, the thinnest in the State.
Badri Narayan Patra is a politician from Odisha, India. He represents the Ghasipura since the year 2009.
Mohan Charan Majhi is an Indian politician, currently serving as the 15th Chief Minister of Odisha. He was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from Keonjhar in the 2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also represented the same constituency from 2000 to 2009 and from 2019 to 2024. He served as the chief whip of the BJP in the Odisha assembly from 2019 to 2024. In the year 1997, he entered politics as a Sarpanch.
Banspani railway station (BSPX) serves Joda Municipality Town, Odisha and it is the smallest railway station of India with only 1 number of platform of 200meter length. Also its a second major iron ore loading station, following Jaroli railway station-the highest iron ore loading station of the Indian Railways. Only two passenger trains Barbil-Puri-Barbil Indian class Intercity Express and Visakhapattnam-Tatanagar-Visakhapattnam Weekly Late Express runs through this station.
Purusottampur, is a village in the taluk of Champua, district of Kendujhar, in the Indian state of Odisha. The total geographical area of village is 160 hectares.
Khireitangiri is a village located in Patna Tehsil in the Kendujhar District in the Indian state of Odisha.
Kendujhar Sadar is an administrative unit in the Kendujhar district in the state of Odisha, India. This subdivision consists of the town Keundujhar, the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the eastern coastal state of Odisha from 13 May to 1 June 2024 to elect the 147 members of the Odisha Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and results were declared on 4 June 2024 for all members of the 17th Assembly.
