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By population, Padmapur ranks #16 of 23 villages in Chandiposh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Padmapur is a village of 189 people in 41 households (Census 2011) in Chandiposh block, Sundargarh district, Odisha, the 16th-largest of 23 villages in Chandiposh block. Literacy is 40%, 11 points below the block average of 51% and the sex ratio is 948 women per 1,000 men. It lies 228 km from the Sundargarh district centre, 19 km from Gunupur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 770037, served by Lathikata post office; the LGD village code is 384664. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital, Gunupur, 19 km away. The sarpanch is Kishor Oram, and the village votes in Athamallik assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nalini Kanta Pradhan. The population is estimated at 223 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chandiposh →
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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