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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Kandakuti is a village in Padmapur mandal, Rayagada district, Odisha. It has a population of 75 across 21 households with a literacy rate of 45.3%. The village is situated at coordinates 19.358°N, 83.998°E with PIN code 765025.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
MAMITA MAJHI
Contact: 82****6660
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- LGD code
- 427109
- Pincode
- 765025
- Post office
- Padmapur
- Population
- 75
- Households
- 21
- Literacy rate
- 45.3%
- Sex ratio
- 875 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 47
- Distance to district centre
- 57 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 14 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 218 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 577 km
- Nearest railway station
- Gunupur · 37 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital Nuagada · 29 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kandakuti compares
By population, Kandakuti ranks #89 of 108 villages in Padmapur mandal.
Literacy rate
%
45.3%
−4.5% vs mandal average
Kandakuti45.3%
Padmapur mandal49.8%
Rayagada district42.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
875
−144 vs mandal average
Kandakuti875
Padmapur mandal1,019
Household size
people per home
3.6
−0.6 vs mandal average
Kandakuti3.6
Padmapur mandal4.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kandakuti at a glance
Kandakuti is a village of 75 people in 21 households (Census 2011) in Padmapur block, Rayagada district, Odisha, the 89th-largest of 108 villages in Padmapur block. Literacy is 45%, 5 points below the block average of 50% and the sex ratio is 875 women per 1,000 men. It lies 57 km from the Rayagada district centre, 37 km from Gunupur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765025, served by Padmapur post office; the LGD village code is 427109. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Nuagada, 29 km away. The sarpanch is MAMITA MAJHI. The population is estimated at 88 in 2026, up 17% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kandakuti
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- 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
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- No
- ASHA worker
- No
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- GUNUPUR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 35
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 90
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Jatili
- Total area (ha)
- 206
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Kandakuti
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Key facts — Kandakuti
- LGD code
- 427109
- Pincode
- 765025
- Post office
- Padmapur
- Population (Census 2011)
- 75
- Population (projected 2026)
- 88
- Households
- 21
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 875
- Literacy rate
- 45.3%
- Coordinates
- 19.35820°N, 83.99753°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gunupur
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- MAMITA MAJHI
- Block / Mandal
- Padmapur
Getting there
How to reach Kandakuti
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar218 kmcapital
- Kolkata577 km
- Hyderabad622 km
- Chennai803 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationGunupur37 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital Nuagada29 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India38 km
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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, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)