Khariar, Odisha
Khariar is a town in Nuapada district of Odisha and serves as Notified Area Council. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Panchayat Samiti of Nuapada district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Khariar is 16.8 thousands out of which 8.5 thousands are males and rest 8.3 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 974 females per 1000 males. There are around 1.8 thousands teenagers in Khariar. It has literacy rate of 70% which means around 11.7 thousands persons can read and write. Total 3.6 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 1.2 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 4 thousands households in Khariar, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 5.8 thousands.
Schools
Khariar has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Khariar Higher Secondary School Khariar
- Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir Khariar
- Khariar Public School Khariar
- Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, Badi
- Raja A.T High School, Khariar
Khariar Panchayat Samiti
Nilandri Meher is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Khariar, who can be contacted at email address ori-khariar@nic.in and mobile number 77508xxx86. The Block landline number is 06671-22**29. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Narayan Sahoo, who can be reached at email address p9437292542@gmail.com and mobile number 82491xxx72. The Block address is Gardamunda, Pincode - 766107. You can reach there by taking a bus till Khariar Bus Stand which is around 5 km away. The Block has both internet facility and Wi-Fi facility.There are five computers, two laptops, five printers and one scanner available for various works.Khariar Panchayat Samiti consists of total 26 Gram Panchayat.
- Areda
- Badi
- Bargaon
- Bhojpur
- Bhuliasikuan
- Birighat
- Chindaguda
- Dabri
- Duajhar
- Khasbahal
- Khudpej
- Kirikita
- Lanji
- Nehena
- Ranimunda
- Sanmaheswar
- Sardhapur
- Tukla
- Gadramunda
- Mandosil
- Baddohel
- Chanabeda
- Risigaon
- Kendupati
- Dohelpada
- Sunari Sikuan
Other villages in Khariar Tehsil
Khariar Tehsil has total 2 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.