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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
JAGABANDHU CHETTY
Contact: 93****2697
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- LGD code
- 429658
- Pincode
- 764041
- Post office
- Jolaput
- Population
- 481
- Households
- 114
- Literacy rate
- 37.6%
- Sex ratio
- 955 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 247
- Distance to district centre
- 42 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 13 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 383 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 465 km
- Nearest railway station
- Bheja · 4 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dr. B. Biswas · 19 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Raising compares
By population, Raising ranks #49 of 215 villages in Nandapur mandal.
Literacy rate
%
37.6%
+3.3% vs mandal average
- Raising
- 37.6%
- Nandapur mandal
- 34.3%
- Koraput district
- 41.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
955
−99 vs mandal average
- Raising
- 955
- Nandapur mandal
- 1,054
Household size
people per home
4.2
+0.3 vs mandal average
- Raising
- 4.2
- Nandapur mandal
- 3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Raising at a glance
Raising is a village of 481 people in 114 households (Census 2011) in Nandapur block, Koraput district, Odisha, the 49th-largest of 215 villages in Nandapur block. Literacy is 38%, 3 points above the block average of 34% and the sex ratio is 955 women per 1,000 men. It lies 42 km from the Koraput district centre, 59 km from Srungavarapukota, the nearest town, 4 km from Bheja railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 764041, served by Jolaput post office; the LGD village code is 429658. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. B. Biswas, 19 km away. The sarpanch is JAGABANDHU CHETTY, and the village votes in Pottangi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rama Chandra Kadam. The population is estimated at 567 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Raising
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 11
- Power hours (winter)
- 18
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- Yes
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- JEYPUR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 63
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 61
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 16
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Raising
- Total area (ha)
- 233
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 41.7
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Raising
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Key facts — Raising
- LGD code
- 429658
- Pincode
- 764041
- Post office
- Jolaput
- Population (Census 2011)
- 481
- Population (projected 2026)
- 567
- Households
- 114
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 955
- Literacy rate
- 37.6%
- Coordinates
- 18.47567°N, 82.72689°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pottangi
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rama Chandra Kadam
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- JAGABANDHU CHETTY
- Block / Mandal
- Nandapur
Getting there
How to reach Raising
Nearest town · 28,304 people
Srungavarapukota · ≈ 59 km
≈ 2 h 2 min by car · 2 h 25 min by bike
DirectionsDistance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar383 kmcapital
- Hyderabad465 km
- Chennai655 km
- Kolkata743 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBheja4 km
- Bus stopKuridi Bus Stop20 km
- Hospital / PHCDr. B. Biswas19 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India29 km
- Police stationLandespolizei37 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-11
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