Kalahandi Pincodes

According to the district’s first gazetteer, which was published on August 15, 1980, Kalahandi District was made up of the former State of Kalahandi less the Kashipur Police Station (the Zamizari of Khariar as Nuapada Sub-division). Currently, Nuapada District. Following the 1948 amalgamation of princely states with the province of Odisha, the former Kalahandi state, together with the former states of Patna and Sonepur, created the District of Kalahandi, which has its headquarters located in Balangir. The districts of Patna (after known as Balngir) and Sonepur (later known as Subarnapur district) were split apart on November 1st, 1949 to become District Balangir.

History

According to the district’s first gazetteer, which was published on August 15, 1980, Kalahandi District was made up of the former State of Kalahandi less the Kashipur Police Station (the Zamizari of Khariar as Nuapada Sub-division). Currently, Nuapada District. Following the 1948 amalgamation of princely states with the province of Odisha, the former Kalahandi state, together with the former states of Patna and Sonepur, created the District of Kalahandi, which has its headquarters located in Balangir. The districts of Patna (after known as Balngir) and Sonepur (later known as Subarnapur district) were split apart on November 1st, 1949 to become District Balangir.

Geography

In the south-western part of Odisha, Kalahandi is bordered to the north by the districts of Balangir and Nuapada, to the south by the districts of Nabarangpur, Koraput, and Rayagada, and to the east by the districts of Rayagada, Kandhamal, and Boudh. It is located between 19.3 N and 21.5 N latitudes and 82.20 E and 83.47 E longitudes. With an area of 8,364.89 square kilometers, it is the seventh largest of Odisha’s 30 districts. The district headquarters are located in Bhawanipatna, which is almost in the middle of the district.

Agriculture

The economy of Kalahandi is mostly dependent on agriculture. Kalahandi alone had sent 100,000 tons of grains during the Bengal famine. The Kalahandi princely state had planned to create the Upper Indravati project in the 1930s, but the project was postponed when the princely state merged with India. Although approved in 1978, it hasn’t been finished completely. Drought, meantime, hit in the 1960s and more recently in the 1980s. Social workers referred to the drought, child trafficking, malnutrition, and starvation deaths that occurred in Kalahandi in the 1980s as “Kalahandi Syndrome.”

Demography

With 1,576,869 residents, the Kalahandi district is about the size of the US state of Idaho or the nation of Gabon, according to the 2011 census. It now stands at 317th place in India as a result. The population density of the district is 199 people per square kilometer. Over the period of 2001–2011, its population increased at a rate of 17.79%. Kalahandi has a 59.22% literacy rate and a sex ratio of 1003 females for every 1000 males. The percentage of people who reside in cities is 7.74%. 18.17% and 28.50% of the population, respectively, are members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Culture

Kalahandi is a culturally and aesthetically rich land. The Kalahandi region is rich in festivals and culture because it is a melting pot of southern and western Odisha, with a sizable tribal population that lives in both plains and hills and whose customs, dialects, and beliefs are blended with those of mainstream Hinduism. The Kalahandi region is rich in festivals and culture due to the blending of tribal and Aryan cultures. Kalahandi was greatly influenced by Saivaism, Vaishanivism, and Shakti puja during the pre-independence era.

Education

Since 2004, the state government of Kalahandi has been collaborating with a South Indian organization to establish a private medical college in the Junagarh block. The college opened for admission in September 2013 but was forced to close in 2015 due to inadequate management. This initiative was carried out through the Western Odisha Development Council. The local desire for a central university in Kalahandi has not been met, despite the announcement in 2009 by the Odisha state government of Government College of Engineering Kalahandi and Agriculture College at Bhawanipatna.