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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Hirapur is a village in Salepur mandal, Cuttack district, Odisha, with a population of 857 across 208 households. The village has a literacy rate of 74.3% and is located at coordinates 20.960°N, 82.826°E.
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Babita dash
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- LGD code
- 399673
- Pincode
- 754201
- Post office
- Rameswar
- Population
- 857
- Households
- 208
- Literacy rate
- 74.3%
- Sex ratio
- 979 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 313
- Distance to district centre
- 265 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 281 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 321 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 599 km
- Nearest railway station
- Lakhna · 31 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Dhandamunda · 21 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Hirapur compares
By population, Hirapur ranks #73 of 133 villages in Salepur mandal.
Literacy rate
%
74.3%
−1.6% vs mandal average
Hirapur74.3%
Salepur mandal75.9%
Cuttack district76.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
979
+12 vs mandal average
Hirapur979
Salepur mandal967
Household size
people per home
4.1
−0.2 vs mandal average
Hirapur4.1
Salepur mandal4.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hirapur at a glance
Hirapur is a village of 857 people in 208 households (Census 2011) in Salepur block, Cuttack district, Odisha, the 73rd-largest of 133 villages in Salepur block. Literacy is 74%, 2 points below the block average of 76% and the sex ratio is 979 women per 1,000 men. It lies 265 km from the Cuttack district centre, 31 km from Lakhna railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 754201, served by Rameswar post office; the LGD village code is 399673. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Dhandamunda, 21 km away. The sarpanch is Babita dash, and the village votes in Hindol assembly constituency, represented by MLA Simarani Nayak. The population is estimated at 1,010 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Hirapur
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 16
- Power hours (winter)
- 20
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- 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
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- CUTTACK
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 9
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 20
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 9
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Ramkrishnapur
- Total area (ha)
- 109
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 69.7
- Forest area (ha)
- 0.49
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Key facts — Hirapur
- LGD code
- 399673
- Pincode
- 754201
- Post office
- Rameswar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 857
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,010
- Households
- 208
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 979
- Literacy rate
- 74.3%
- Coordinates
- 20.96020°N, 82.82580°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Dhenkanal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Hindol
- Member of Parliament
- Rudra Narayan Pany
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Simarani Nayak
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Babita dash
- Block / Mandal
- Salepur
Getting there
How to reach Hirapur
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar321 kmcapital
- Kolkata599 km
- Hyderabad605 km
- Chennai917 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationLakhna31 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Dhandamunda21 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum34 km
- CollegeK.V. Degree College, Kantabanji58 km
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Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)