Odisha Vigilance Arrests Three Panchayat Officials in Rs 16.76 Lakh Pension Scam in Baleshwar
Reported by Pragativadi.
Nuagaon observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Durga Puja, from Shashthi to Dashami, in community pandals rather than at home. Sandhi Puja at the join of Ashtami and Navami, Sindoor Khela and immersion on Dashami.
The regional form observed across West Bengal, Odisha, Assam. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Nuagaon ranks #61 of 77 villages in Oupada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Nuagaon is a village of 136 people in 36 households (Census 2011) in Oupada block, Baleshwar district, Odisha, the 61st-largest of 77 villages in Oupada block. Literacy is 72%, 11 points above the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 915 women per 1,000 men. It lies 86 km from the Baleshwar district centre, 2 km from Nuagaon railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 756047, served by Turigaria post office; the LGD village code is 393342. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sen Clinic, 12 km away. The sarpanch is SUBHADRA NAYAK, and the village votes in Daspalla assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ramesh Chandra Behera. The population is estimated at 160 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Badapokhari →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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