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By population, Bela ranks #100 of 353 villages in Basta mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bela is a village of 643 people in 153 households (Census 2011) in Basta block, Baleshwar district, Odisha, the 100th-largest of 353 villages in Basta block. Literacy is 73%, 4 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 1,016 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 756029, served by Basta post office; the LGD village code is 392353. The sarpanch is Gouranga Charan Behera, and the village votes in Sukinda assembly constituency, represented by Pradeep Bal Samanta. The population is estimated at 758 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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