Koraput Coffee: A Cup Of Coffee Is Changing Tribal Lives In Odisha
Reported by Outlook Traveller.
Bilangsil observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Odisha.
Durga Puja, from Shashthi to Dashami, in community pandals rather than at home. Sandhi Puja at the join of Ashtami and Navami, Sindoor Khela and immersion on Dashami.
The regional form observed across West Bengal, Odisha, Assam. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Bilangsil ranks #24 of 84 villages in Lakshmipur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bilangsil is a village of 677 people in 176 households (Census 2011) in Lakshmipur block, Koraput district, Odisha, the 24th-largest of 84 villages in Lakshmipur block. Literacy is 18%, 18 points below the block average of 36% and the sex ratio is 1,052 women per 1,000 men. It lies 8 km from the Koraput district centre, 57 km from Ramabhadrapuram, the nearest town, 9 km from Baiguda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765013, served by Laxmipur (Koraput) post office; the LGD village code is 428546. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 13 km away. The sarpanch is MANJI PRASKA. The population is estimated at 798 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Champi →
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.
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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