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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Jhar is a village in Sohela mandal, Bargarh district, Odisha, with a population of 2,376 across 644 households. The village has a literacy rate of 67.6% and is located at coordinates 21.228°N, 83.277°E.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
ASHOK KUMAR BARIK
Contact: 97****1171
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- LGD code
- 380293
- Pincode
- 768034
- Population
- 2,376
- Households
- 644
- Literacy rate
- 67.6%
- Sex ratio
- 904 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,440
- Distance to district centre
- 22 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 9 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Jhar compares
Literacy rate
%
67.6%
+0.3% vs mandal average
- Jhar
- 67.6%
- Sohela mandal
- 67.3%
- Bargarh district
- 66.4%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
904
−73 vs mandal average
- Jhar
- 904
- Sohela mandal
- 977
Household size
people per home
3.7
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Jhar
- 3.7
- Sohela mandal
- 3.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Key facts — Jhar
- LGD code
- 380293
- Pincode
- 768034
- Population (Census 2011)
- 2,376
- Population (projected 2026)
- 2,801
- Households
- 644
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 904
- Literacy rate
- 67.6%
- Coordinates
- 21.22820°N, 83.27696°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Bargarh
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bhatli
- Member of Parliament
- Pradip Purohit
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- ASHOK KUMAR BARIK
- Block / Mandal
- Sohela
Getting there
How to reach Jhar
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