Dankari observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
By population, Dankari ranks #72 of 224 villages in Digapahandi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dankari is a village of 797 people in 180 households (Census 2011) in Digapahandi block, Ganjam district, Odisha, the 72nd-largest of 224 villages in Digapahandi block. Literacy is 40%, 14 points below the block average of 54% and the sex ratio is 907 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 761054, served by Ballipada post office; the LGD village code is 412761. The sarpanch is GEETANJALI BEHERA, and the village votes in Sanakhemundi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ramesh Chandra Jena. The population is estimated at 940 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kotinada →
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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