Baranga observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Temples near Baranga
Named places of worship on record
By population, Baranga ranks #15 of 245 villages in Jarada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baranga is a village of 1,517 people in 408 households (Census 2011) in Jarada block, Ganjam district, Odisha, the 15th-largest of 245 villages in Jarada block. Literacy is 51%, 1 points below the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 1,211 women per 1,000 men. It lies 40 km from the Ganjam district centre, 9 km from Chatrapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 761006, served by Jayantipur post office; the LGD village code is 413326. The nearest hospital or health centre is Police Hospital, 9 km away. The village votes in Mohana assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dasarathi Gomanga. The population is estimated at 1,789 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Baranga →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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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