Khandapada (also spelt as Khandapara) is a town and a

Notified Area Council A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

Nayagarh district Nayagarh district is one of the 30 districts of Odisha state in eastern India. It was created on 01-April-1993 when the erstwhile Puri District was split into three distinct districts, namely Khordha, Nayagarh and Puri. The district is border ...

in the

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. It is located in the valley of nine mountains.

Geography

Khandapada is located at . It has an average elevation of .

History

During the

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era, Khandapada was the capital of

Khandpara State Khandpara State was one of the princely states of India in the British Raj. It was located in present-day Nayagarh district, Odisha. The state was bounded in the north by the Mahanadi River. The main town was Kantilo, but the capital was at K ...

. It was one of several princely states of the

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. The

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to the Indian Union was signed by the last ruler of the state on 1 January 1948.Khandpara Princely State - "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 247
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Demographics

India

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, Khandapada had a population of 8754. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Khandapada has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 67%. In Khandapada, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Politics

Shri Soumya Ranjan Patnaik is a member of 16th Assembly of Odisha (2019 - 2024) elected from Khandapada assembly constituency.Previously Anubhav Patnaik son of late Arun Pattanaik who won the seat in the state election in 2014. MLA from Khandapada Assembly Constituency is BJD candidate Siddharth Singh, who won the seat in State elections in 2009. Bibhuti Bhushan Singh Mardaraj of INC won this seat in 1995, 1985 and also in 1980 as an independent candidate. Arun Kumar Pattanaik of JD won this seat in 1990 and Satyasundar Mishra won it in 1977 as independent candidate. Khandapada is now part of

Cuttack (Lok Sabha constituency) Cuttack (, or officially Kataka in Odia language, Odia ), is the former capital, deputy capital and the 2nd largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. It is also the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised f ...

Education

· Pathani Samanta (Degree) College, Khandapara · Women's (Degree) College, Khandapara · Nilamadhab (Degree) Mahavidyalaya, Kantilo · Prahallad (Degree) Mahavidyalaya, Padmavati · Balunkeswar Dev Anchalik (Degree) College, Bhapur · R.C HIGH SCHOOL, KHANDAPADA · GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, KHANDAPADA

Khandapada Block Panchayat List

References

{{Municipalities of Odisha Cities and towns in Nayagarh district Khandpara State