By population, Sankhapur ranks #162 of 195 villages in Mahanga mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sankhapur is a village of 322 people in 87 households (Census 2011) in Mahanga block, Cuttack district, Odisha, the 162nd-largest of 195 villages in Mahanga block. Literacy is 80%, 3 points above the block average of 78% and the sex ratio is 940 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 754204, served by Kuanpal post office; the LGD village code is 399491. The sarpanch is Naliniprava Pradhan, and the village votes in Banki assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devi Ranjan Tripathy. The population is estimated at 2,268 in 2026, up 604% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kuhunda →
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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