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Chotipada is a village in Surada tehsil, Ganjam district, Odisha. At the 2011 Census it was recorded as uninhabited (no residents). It is administered by the Merrikota gram panchayat. Its postal pincode is 761109.
Health & sanitation — Ganjam district (NFHS-5, 2019–21)
District factsheet values published by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the International Institute for Population Sciences. Survey estimates for the whole district, not a census.
These are district-level figures for Ganjam district, not figures for Chotipada.
Sex ratio at birth
855 ♀/1000♂
Children born in the last 5 years, females per 1,000 males
Female literacy
71.9%
Women age 15–49 who are literate
Electricity
99.3%
Population living in households with electricity
Improved sanitation
72.9%
Population living in households that use an improved sanitation facility
Children vaccinated
88.5%
Children age 12–23 months fully vaccinated (card or mother's recall)
Anaemia (women)
56.7%
All women age 15–49 who are anaemic
Institutional births
93.0%
Births in a health facility, in the 5 years before the survey
Stunting
23.9%
Children under 5 who are stunted (height-for-age)
Improved drinking water
89.6%
Population living in households with an improved drinking-water source
Clean cooking fuel
63.7%
Households using clean fuel for cooking
Health insurance
51.9%
Households with any usual member covered by a health insurance or financing scheme
Post-2011 updates
Scheme progress — Ganjam district
Central-government dashboards · sourced from data.gov.in · refreshed when the ministry publishes
These are district-level figures for Ganjam district, not figures for Chotipada.
Tap water at home
district level
33.0%
2,33,480 of 7,07,157 rural households have a tap connection
Jal Jeevan Mission · as of 7 Jun 2024 · Ganjam
Method: Sum of 6,545 habitation rows in 22 block resources published on data.gov.in by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (households; households with a tap connection).
PMAY-G (rural houses) is not shown: the ministry publishes no district-wise bulk dataset.
Approximate location
Chotipada on the map
The pin is an approximate location, within about 15 km, from the mapped villages of its mandal — not the exact site of Chotipada. Exact coordinates come from OpenStreetMap once the village is mapped there.
We can't yet place Chotipada in a Lok Sabha or assembly constituency reliably — we need its map location, or more mapped villages around it. How constituencies are placed
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Sources & freshness
Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
Village directory: Local Government Directory, record as of 2026-10-21
Pincode: LGD village–pincode mapping and India Post
Weather: Open-Meteo, live model estimate
Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), RBI IFSC lists, India Post
Sarpanch: shown only when a sarpanch has verified with an election certificate (none for this village yet)
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Climate & El Niño
Pacific Ocean status (NOAA, 8 Oct 2026): El Niño Advisory
There is no El Niño forecast for individual villages. El Niño is a pattern in the Pacific Ocean; how much it changes rainfall here also depends on other conditions, and it does not mean drought everywhere.
Local rainfall estimates are not available yet.
Long-term district average for October: 198.4 mm (IMD normal, 1951–2000)
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These are wholesale mandi (APMC) prices in ₹ per quintal as reported to AGMARKNET — not the retail price in Chotipada's shops. Best mandi price near Chotipada →
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