Baleswar Pincodes

The administrative district of Odisha state, located in eastern India, is called Balasore District, sometimes referred to as Baleswar District. One of Odisha’s coastal districts, Balasore is located in the state’s northernmost region. It is believed that the name Baleshwar originated from the local term Baneswar, which was derived from the town’s reigning god, Lord Baneshwar (Lord Shiva). Puruna Baleswar is home to Baneswara Temple, a Siva temple.

Geography

In the northeastern part of the state of Odisha, the Balasore district is situated between 21° 3′ and 21° 59′ north latitude and 86° 20′ and 87° 29′ east longitude. The district has a 19.08-meter average elevation. The district is 3634 square kilometer in total size. It is bordered to the north by the districts of Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, and Jhargram in West Bengal; to the east by the Bay of Bengal; to the south by the district of Bhadrak; and to the west by the districts of Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar.

Transport

The main railway line that links Chennai and Kolkata passes through the Balasore railway station. Balasore is traversed by NH 16 (formerly NH 5), and NH 60, a four-lane expressway, links Balasore and Kolkata. Kolkata International Airport and Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar, are the closest airports to Balasore. State buses operated by Balasore (OSRTC) offer point-to-point transportation between Kolkata and Bhubaneswar (via Balasore).

Demography

The population of the Balasore district, as of the 2011 census, is 2,320,529, or about the same as that of the US state of New Mexico or the country of Latvia. As a result, it is ranked 195th in India. There are 609 people living in the district per square kilometer. From 2001 to 2011, the population grew at a pace of 14.47%. Balasore has an 80.66% literacy rate with a sex ratio of 957 females for every 1000 males. Urban areas are home to 10.92% of the population. 20.62% of the population is made up of Scheduled Castes, while 11.88% is made up of Scheduled Tribes.

Languages

88.30% of the district’s residents spoke Odia as their first language at the time of the 2011 Indian Census, followed by Santali (4.11%), Urdu (3.39%), Bengali (1.30%), and Hindi (0.67%). Baleswari bhasa, an Odia dialect, is the regional language. Aside from Santali, another language spoken by about 7000 Bhunjia Adivasis is Bhunjia.

Education

M. University is the primary university in the district. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bagudi, sometimes called JNV Bagudi or JNV Balasore, is a public residential school located in the Soro block of the Balasore district in Bagudi village, which is close to Mangalpur. Operated by the government, it offers education to kids primarily from low-income households and rural communities. Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, an independent entity of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Department of Secondary Education and Higher Education, founded and oversees it.