Anji observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Temples near Anji
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By population, Anji ranks #26 of 343 villages in Soro mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Anji is a village of 2,176 people in 521 households (Census 2011) in Soro block, Baleshwar district, Odisha, the 26th-largest of 343 villages in Soro block. Literacy is 79%, 6 points above the block average of 73% and the sex ratio is 934 women per 1,000 men. It lies 42 km from the Baleshwar district centre, 24 km from Begunia railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 756046, served by Anantapur (Baleswar) post office; the LGD village code is 394020. The nearest hospital or health centre is SDH, Banki, <1 km away. The sarpanch is ANUPAMA JENA, and the village votes in Banki assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devi Ranjan Tripathy. The population is estimated at 2,566 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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