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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Budamal is located in Sohela mandal, Bargarh district, Odisha, with a population of 1,172 and 330 households. The village has a literacy rate of 66.4% and uses PIN 768033.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
anjali pradhan
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- LGD code
- 380226
- Pincode
- 768033
- Post office
- Sohella
- Population
- 1,172
- Households
- 330
- Literacy rate
- 66.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1003 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 721
- Distance to district centre
- 17 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 278 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 539 km
- Nearest railway station
- Barpali · 26 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Satyawadi Clinic · 7 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Budamal compares
By population, Budamal ranks #33 of 108 villages in Sohela mandal.
Literacy rate
%
66.4%
−0.9% vs mandal average
- Budamal
- 66.4%
- Sohela mandal
- 67.3%
- Bargarh district
- 66.4%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,003
+26 vs mandal average
- Budamal
- 1,003
- Sohela mandal
- 977
Household size
people per home
3.6
−0.2 vs mandal average
- Budamal
- 3.6
- Sohela mandal
- 3.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Budamal at a glance
Budamal is a village of 1,172 people in 330 households (Census 2011) in Sohela block, Bargarh district, Odisha, the 33rd-largest of 108 villages in Sohela block. Literacy is 66%, about the same as the block average of 67% and the sex ratio is 1,003 women per 1,000 men. It lies 17 km from the Bargarh district centre, 36 km from Tora, the nearest town, 26 km from Barpali railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 768033, served by Sohella post office; the LGD village code is 380226. The nearest hospital or health centre is Satyawadi Clinic, 7 km away. The sarpanch is anjali pradhan. The population is estimated at 1,382 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Budamal
- 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
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 12
- Power hours (winter)
- 20
- Primary school
- 2
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- Yes
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- No
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- BARGARH
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 29
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 29
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 3
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Kangaon
- Total area (ha)
- 360
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 14.33
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Budamal
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Budamal
- LGD code
- 380226
- Pincode
- 768033
- Post office
- Sohella
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,172
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,382
- Households
- 330
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1003
- Literacy rate
- 66.4%
- Coordinates
- 21.21843°N, 83.34407°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Bargarh
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bhatli
- Member of Parliament
- Pradip Purohit
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- anjali pradhan
- Block / Mandal
- Sohela
Getting there
How to reach Budamal
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar278 kmcapital
- Kolkata539 km
- Hyderabad664 km
- Chennai962 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBarpali26 km
- Hospital / PHCSatyawadi Clinic7 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, 2026-09-13
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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