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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
BHAGABATI TANGAT
Contact: 70****1243
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- LGD code
- 429633
- Pincode
- 764041
- Post office
- Jolaput
- Population
- 401
- Households
- 103
- Literacy rate
- 46.4%
- Sex ratio
- 975 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 274
Census 2011 · in context
How Bheja compares
By population, Bheja ranks #30 of 68 villages in Padua mandal.
Literacy rate
%
46.4%
+12.5% vs mandal average
- Bheja
- 46.4%
- Padua mandal
- 33.9%
- Koraput district
- 41.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
975
−89 vs mandal average
- Bheja
- 975
- Padua mandal
- 1,064
Household size
people per home
3.9
+0.1 vs mandal average
- Bheja
- 3.9
- Padua mandal
- 3.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bheja at a glance
Bheja is a village of 401 people in 103 households (Census 2011) in Padua block, Koraput district, Odisha, the 30th-largest of 68 villages in Padua block. Literacy is 46%, 13 points above the block average of 34% and the sex ratio is 975 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 764041, served by Jolaput post office; the LGD village code is 429633. The sarpanch is BHAGABATI TANGAT, and the village votes in Pottangi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rama Chandra Kadam. The population is estimated at 473 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bheja →
Key facts — Bheja
- LGD code
- 429633
- Pincode
- 764041
- Post office
- Jolaput
- Population (Census 2011)
- 401
- Population (projected 2026)
- 473
- Households
- 103
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 975
- Literacy rate
- 46.4%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pottangi
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rama Chandra Kadam
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- BHAGABATI TANGAT
- Block / Mandal
- Padua
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- 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, 2026-05-06
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)