Soro
Soro is a town in Baleshwar district of Odisha and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Panchayat Samiti of Baleshwar district.
As on November 2024, the current population of Soro is 36.3 thousands out of which 18.5 thousands are males and rest 17.7 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 956 females per 1000 males. There are around 3.8 thousands teenagers in Soro. It has literacy rate of 75% which means around 27 thousands persons can read and write. Total 5.3 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 1 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 7.6 thousands households in Soro, which means every family has 5 members on average. The town has working population of 11.4 thousands.
Schools
Soro has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Upendra Nath Higher Secondary School Soro
- K.C.Saraswati Sishu Mandir
- Saraswata Higher Secondary School Anantapur
- Talanagar Higher Secondary School Talanagar
- Srinibas Higher Secondary School Mangalpur
Soro Panchayat Samiti
Sushanta Kumar Barik is the President (Block Pramukh) of Panchayat Samiti Soro, who can be contacted at email address orri-soro@nic.in and mobile number 78733xxx05. The Block landline number is 06788-22**36. The Block Development Officer (BDO) is Mrunal Kanti Das, who can be reached at email address ori-soro@nic.in and mobile number 80102xxx32. The Block address is At/Po- Soro, Ps- Soro, Pincode - 756045. You can reach there by taking a bus till Soro Bus Stop which is less than a km away. The Block has internet facility.There are five computers, one laptop, five printers and two scanners available for various works.Soro Panchayat Samiti consists of total 24 Gram Panchayat.
- Antapur
- Attapur
- Dahisade
- Gopinathpur
- Gud
- Jadia
- Kedarpur
- Madhusuidanpur
- Mahumuhan
- Manatri
- Manipur
- Mulising
- Nadigan
- Natapada
- Nischintapur
- Sabira
- Sajanpur
- Saknar
- Sarasakha
- Singakhunta
- Talanagar
- Tentei
- Balanga
- Kesharipur
Other villages in Soro Tehsil
Soro Tehsil has total 15 villages which are currently not mapped to any Gram Panchayat.