PROFILE

  • Area:  5294 Sq. Kms
  • Forest Area: 29.91%
  • Blocks: 10 blocks, which covers 10 Tahasils,
  • GPs: 189
  • Villages: 891
  • Household: 14.67 lakh ST households (53.64% of total household).
  • Population: 12.20 lakhs out of which 6.81 lakh (55.79%) are ST Population.

ITDA and Micro Projects

Demography and Development Indicators

Districtwise Targets and Achievements of SDC

Office Bearers

  • Executive Committee

    Executive committee for district:

    No.

    DESIGNATION

    OFFICE BEARERS

    1

    Chairperson

    District Collector

    2

    Member

    Project Director, DRDA

    3

    Members

    District Level Officers to be copted by the District Collector (District Level Officers should include deputy Director of Agriculture, CDMO, Cl of Schools, DFO, District Culture Officer, District Sports Officer, DWO, Special Officers of Micro Projects if any, DI & PRO)

    4

    Member

    Director, DPMU

    5

    Member

    Project Administrator (s), ITDA (s)

    6

    Member Secretary

    The Project Administrator, ITDA located at the District Headquarter or located nearest to the District Head Quarter in case of the Districts having no Head Quarter ITDA

     

Major Tribes

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    Bhottada

    Bhottada is a tribal community of Odisha . More...

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    Gond

    Gond is numerically the most dominant tribe of India. More...

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    Holva

    This community are also found to be distributed in the district of Nabrangpur . More...

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    Kandha

    The Kandha is numerically the largest tribe of Odisha . More...

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    Omanatya

    Omanatya as per 2011 Census has a total population of 10,745 in the district. More...

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    Paroja

    Paroja is culturally a very significant tribe of Odisha . More..

     

Download: Communitywise and Sectorwise distribution of Schedule tribes