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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Kellar is a village in Kakiriguma mandal, Koraput district, Odisha with a population of 1,435 across 290 households. The literacy rate is 52%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
INDRA PANJIA
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- LGD code
- 428845
- Pincode
- 765013
- Post office
- Laxmipur (Koraput)
- Population
- 1,435
- Households
- 290
- Literacy rate
- 52%
- Sex ratio
- 1098 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 588
- Distance to district centre
- 24 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 8 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 331 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 508 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kakiriguma · 5 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital · 31 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kellar compares
By population, Kellar ranks #5 of 19 villages in Kakiriguma mandal.
Literacy rate
%
52.0%
+15.5% vs mandal average
- Kellar
- 52.0%
- Kakiriguma mandal
- 36.5%
- Koraput district
- 41.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,098
−20 vs mandal average
- Kellar
- 1,098
- Kakiriguma mandal
- 1,118
Household size
people per home
4.9
+1.0 vs mandal average
- Kellar
- 4.9
- Kakiriguma mandal
- 3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kellar at a glance
Kellar is a village of 1,435 people in 290 households (Census 2011) in Kakiriguma block, Koraput district, Odisha, the 5th-largest of 19 villages in Kakiriguma block. Literacy is 52%, 16 points above the block average of 37% and the sex ratio is 1,098 women per 1,000 men. It lies 24 km from the Koraput district centre, 59 km from Jayapatna, the nearest town, 5 km from Kakiriguma railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765013, served by Laxmipur (Koraput) post office; the LGD village code is 428845. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 31 km away. The sarpanch is INDRA PANJIA. The population is estimated at 1,692 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kellar
- 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)
- 13
- 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
- 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
- No
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- RAYAGADA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 45
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 46
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Kusumgada
- Total area (ha)
- 898
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 33.33
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Key facts — Kellar
- LGD code
- 428845
- Pincode
- 765013
- Post office
- Laxmipur (Koraput)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,435
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,692
- Households
- 290
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1098
- Literacy rate
- 52.0%
- Coordinates
- 18.96668°N, 82.99734°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Laxmipur
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- INDRA PANJIA
- Block / Mandal
- Kakiriguma
Getting there
How to reach Kellar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar331 kmcapital
- Hyderabad508 km
- Kolkata687 km
- Chennai716 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKakiriguma5 km
- Bus stopDamanjodi Junction Bus Stop25 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital31 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India25 km
- CollegeRayagada Institute of Technology and Management48 km
- Police stationLandespolizei34 km
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- KakirigumaLakshmipur mandal2,155 pop
- BurujaLakshmipur mandal2,036 pop
- PodapadarKakiriguma mandal1,837 pop
- CharadaLakshmipur mandal1,802 pop
- UpperchampiLakshmipur mandal1,604 pop
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View all 18 →Sources & freshness
- 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, 2026-09-11
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)