Kotpad, Odisha
Kotpad is a town in Koraput district of Odisha and serves as Notified Area Council. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Panchayat Samiti of Koraput district.
As on December 2024, the current population of Kotpad is 18.2 thousands out of which 8.9 thousands are males and rest 9.3 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 1055 females per 1000 males. There are around 2 thousands teenagers in Kotpad. It has literacy rate of 67% which means around 12.2 thousands persons can read and write. Total 2.4 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 4.4 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 4.3 thousands households in Kotpad, which means every family has 4 members on average. The town has working population of 7.2 thousands.
Schools
Kotpad has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Kotpad Higher Secondary School Kotpad
- Girla High School
- S.B.Nuagam High School
- Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Kotpad
- Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, Kendubeda
Kotpad Panchayat Samiti
Baidayanth Pujari is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Kotpad, who can be contacted at email address kotpadblock2020@gmail.com and mobile number 83289xxx94. The Block landline number is 06860-29**59. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Dasarathi Sarboo, who can be reached at email address ori-kotpad@nic.in and mobile number 94372xxx75. The Block address is Kotpad, Pincode - 110011. You can reach there by taking a bus till Kotpad bus stop which is less than a km away. The Block has homestay option.Kotpad Panchayat Samiti consists of total 17 Gram Panchayat.
- Batasona
- Bhansuli
- Bobeya
- Chandili
- Chatarla
- Chitra
- Dhamanahandi
- Ghumar
- Girla
- Guali
- Gumuda
- Kusumi
- Murthahandi
- S.B.Nuagam
- Sadaranga
- Sargiguda
- S Utipadar
Other villages in Kotpad Tehsil
Kotpad Tehsil has total 5 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.