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By population, Murtunga ranks #112 of 211 villages in Similia mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Murtunga is a village of 427 people in 91 households (Census 2011) in Similia block, Baleshwar district, Odisha, the 112th-largest of 211 villages in Similia block. Literacy is 74%, 2 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 865 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 756134, served by Ada post office; the LGD village code is 394258. The sarpanch is Kamini lata Sethi, and the village votes in Daspalla assembly constituency, represented by Ramesh Chandra Behera. The population is estimated at 503 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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