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Panchayat samiti member shot dead in Odisha's Bargarh
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Adhikari Barik
Contact: 99****3194
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- LGD code
- 380432
- Pincode
- 768029
- Post office
- Barpali
- Population
- 2,723
- Households
- 696
- Literacy rate
- 64.4%
- Sex ratio
- 953 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,594
- Distance to district centre
- 13 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 255 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 526 km
- Nearest railway station
- Dungripali · 4 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Jeevan Jyoti Health Care Centre · 14 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kanbar compares
By population, Kanbar ranks #9 of 74 villages in Barapali mandal.
Literacy rate
%
64.4%
−2.9% vs mandal average
- Kanbar
- 64.4%
- Barapali mandal
- 67.3%
- Bargarh district
- 66.4%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
953
+1 vs mandal average
- Kanbar
- 953
- Barapali mandal
- 952
Household size
people per home
3.9
+0.1 vs mandal average
- Kanbar
- 3.9
- Barapali mandal
- 3.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kanbar at a glance
Kanbar is a village of 2,723 people in 696 households (Census 2011) in Barapali block, Bargarh district, Odisha, the 9th-largest of 74 villages in Barapali block. Literacy is 64%, 3 points below the block average of 67% and the sex ratio is 953 women per 1,000 men. It lies 13 km from the Bargarh district centre, 31 km from Tora, the nearest town, 4 km from Dungripali railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 768029, served by Barpali post office; the LGD village code is 380432. The nearest hospital or health centre is Jeevan Jyoti Health Care Centre, 14 km away. The sarpanch is Adhikari Barik, and the village votes in Sonepur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Niranjan Pujari. The population is estimated at 3,210 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kanbar
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 14
- Power hours (winter)
- 18
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 1
- Degree college
- 1
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- BARPALI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 8
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 19
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 19
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Kanbar
- Total area (ha)
- 704
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 454.3
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Kanbar
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Kanbar
- LGD code
- 380432
- Pincode
- 768029
- Post office
- Barpali
- Population (Census 2011)
- 2,723
- Population (projected 2026)
- 3,210
- Households
- 696
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 953
- Literacy rate
- 64.4%
- Coordinates
- 21.07944°N, 83.52563°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Bolangir
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sonepur
- Member of Parliament
- Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Niranjan Pujari
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Adhikari Barik
- Block / Mandal
- Barapali
Getting there
How to reach Kanbar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar255 kmcapital
- Kolkata526 km
- Hyderabad670 km
- Chennai954 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDungripali4 km
- Hospital / PHCJeevan Jyoti Health Care Centre14 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-19
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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