Banapur, Odisha
Banapur is a town in Khordha district of Odisha and serves as Notified Area Council. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Panchayat Samiti of Khordha district.
As on February 2025, the current population of Banapur is 19.3 thousands out of which 9.7 thousands are males and rest 9.6 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 984 females per 1000 males. There are around 1.8 thousands teenagers in Banapur. It has literacy rate of 77% which means around 14.8 thousands persons can read and write. Total 1.9 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 276 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 3.8 thousands households in Banapur, which means every family has 5 members on average. The town has working population of 5.9 thousands.
Schools
Banapur has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Saraswati Sishu Mandir
- Godavarish Higher Secondary School Banapur
- Patitapabangovt. High School, Gambharimunda
- Godabarish Govt. High School Nachuni
- Sri Aurobindo School Of Integral Education
Banapur Panchayat Samiti
Ranjita Sethi is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Banapur, who can be contacted at email address sandip.paikaray1974@gmail.com and mobile number 91782xxx58. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Praduyan Nayak, who can be reached at email address ori-banpur@nic.in and mobile number 94392xxx51. The Block address is Panchayat Samiti Office Banapur, At-Banapur, Pincode - 752031. You can reach there by taking a bus till Balugaon Bus Stop which is around 7 km away. The Block has internet facility.Banapur Panchayat Samiti consists of total 17 Gram Panchayat.
- Bheteswar
- Bishnudiha
- Damiabarabara
- Deogaon
- Galua
- Gambharimunda
- Kulei
- Kumarangasasana
- Nachuni
- Nandapur
- Narendrapur
- Niladriparashad
- Tumuraput
- Moramori
- Ayatpur
- Bhabanipur
- Torasingh
Other villages in Banapur Tehsil
Banapur Tehsil has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.