Junagarh, Odisha
Junagarh is a town in Kalahandi district of Odisha and serves as Notified Area Council. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Panchayat Samiti of Kalahandi district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Junagarh is 21.8 thousands out of which 10.9 thousands are males and rest 10.9 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 999 females per 1000 males. There are around 2.5 thousands teenagers in Junagarh. It has literacy rate of 65% which means around 14.1 thousands persons can read and write. Total 3.1 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 1.2 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 5 thousands households in Junagarh, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 8.2 thousands.
Schools
Junagarh has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Saraswati Sishu Mandir Junagarh
- Saptapalli Govt. High School, Atigaon
- Junagarh English School, Junagarh
- Govt. High School, Junagarh
- Govt. Ssd Higher Secondary School Kuruguda
Junagarh Panchayat Samiti
Nurjya Majhi is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Junagarh, who can be contacted at email address bdojunagarh@gmail.com and mobile number 91788xxx38. The Block landline number is 06672-24**59. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Dularam Marandi, who can be reached at email address ori-junagarh@nic.in and mobile number 63721xxx22. The Block address is Panchayta Office, Junagarh, Pincode - 766014. You can reach there by taking a bus till Junagarh bus stop which is around 5 km away. The Block has both library facility and internet facility.Junagarh Panchayat Samiti consists of total 34 Gram Panchayat.
- Asttagaon
- Baladiamal
- Bankapalas
- Baxitulisipali
- Bhainriguda
- Budhipadar
- Charbahal
- Charbahati
- Chhuriagaon
- Chicheiguda
- Dasigaon
- Dedarh
- Dundeimal
- Goudchendia
- Habaspur
- Kalaigaon
- Kaliakundal
- Kalopala
- Kendupati
- Mahichal;A
- Maliguda
- Manijora
- Matigaon
- Meriabandhali
- Mundaraguda
- Naktiguda
- Nandol
- Palash
- Rajpur
- Sanyasikundamal
- Talamala
- Taljaring
- Pilikia
- Chingudisar
Other villages in Junagarh Tehsil
Junagarh Tehsil has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.