Lead story
28
September 2026
newsSTATE
Odisha: 70-year-old woman rescued after 12 hours of being swept into Brahmani River
Reported by indiagazette.com.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Padipoda is a village in Mudulipada mandal, Malkangiri district, Odisha. It has a population of 242 across 61 households, with a literacy rate of 24.4%. The village is located at coordinates 18.560°N, 82.372°E and falls under PIN code 764052.
SB
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SRI BHIKARI KIRSANI
Contact: 96****8045
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Padipoda can update it.
- LGD code
- 430501
- Pincode
- 764052
- Post office
- Chitrakonda
- Population
- 242
- Households
- 61
- Literacy rate
- 24.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1396 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 140
- Distance to district centre
- 45 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 1 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 410 km
- Distance to Hyderabad
- 431 km
- Nearest railway station
- Machkunda Road · 31 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Mathili · 17 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Padipoda compares
By population, Padipoda ranks #45 of 92 villages in Mudulipada mandal.
Literacy rate
%
24.4%
−9.5% vs mandal average
Padipoda24.4%
Mudulipada mandal33.9%
Malkangiri district39.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,396
+314 vs mandal average
Padipoda1,396
Mudulipada mandal1,082
Household size
people per home
4.0
−0.2 vs mandal average
Padipoda4.0
Mudulipada mandal4.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Padipoda at a glance
Padipoda is a village of 242 people in 61 households (Census 2011) in Mudulipada block, Malkangiri district, Odisha, the 45th-largest of 92 villages in Mudulipada block. Literacy is 24%, 10 points below the block average of 34% and the sex ratio is 1,396 women per 1,000 men. It lies 45 km from the Malkangiri district centre, 31 km from Machkunda Road railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 764052, served by Chitrakonda post office; the LGD village code is 430501. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Mathili, 17 km away. The sarpanch is SRI BHIKARI KIRSANI, and the village votes in Chitrakonda assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mangu Khilla. The population is estimated at 285 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Badodural →
Nearby villages compared
Compare side by side →Complete this village · 5/7
Add what you know →- Sarpanch name
- Panchayat contact
- Pincode
- About the village
- A photoTemple, school, fields — anything from the village
- A festival or jatara
- A notable personTeacher, soldier, sportsperson, entrepreneur
Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Padipoda
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- 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
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- JEYPUR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 40
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 65
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 1
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Badadural
- Total area (ha)
- 148
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 29.28
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Padipoda
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Padipoda
- LGD code
- 430501
- Pincode
- 764052
- Post office
- Chitrakonda
- Population (Census 2011)
- 242
- Population (projected 2026)
- 285
- Households
- 61
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1396
- Literacy rate
- 24.4%
- Coordinates
- 18.55957°N, 82.37221°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Nabarangpur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Chitrakonda
- Member of Parliament
- Balabhadra Majhi
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Mangu Khilla
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SRI BHIKARI KIRSANI
- Block / Mandal
- Mudulipada
Getting there
How to reach Padipoda
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar410 kmcapital
- Hyderabad431 km
- Chennai649 km
- Kolkata767 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationMachkunda Road31 km
- Bus stopONUKUDELLI BUS STOP8 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Mathili17 km
- ATM / bankSTATE BANK OF INDIA17 km
- Police stationKoraput police station45 km
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 764052
- MandapalliChitrakonda mandal1,997 pop
- PodaghatMudulipada mandal1,552 pop
- KumarputMudulipada mandal1,515 pop
- NakamamudiChitrakonda mandal1,438 pop
- KhairpaliChitrakonda mandal1,270 pop
- KhairputMudulipada mandal1,216 pop
- GunthawadaChitrakonda mandal1,139 pop
- PanasputJodamba mandal1,057 pop
- KhemaguruMudulipada mandal956 pop
Villages near Padipoda
Other villages in Mudulipada mandal
View all 60+ →- Podaghat
- Kumarput
- Khairput
- Khemaguru
- Mundiguda
- Kadamaguda
- Andrahal
- Mudulupoda
- Champajharan
- Madkapadar
- Lacher
- Dumuripoda
- Pujhariguda
- Dantipada
- Badadural
- Tankamunda
- Khuriguda
- Badabel
- Pandraguda
- Lamtaguda
- Kichapada
- Rauliguda (Kadamguda)
- Kandhaattalguda
- Kirsanipada
- Badapada
- Sukriput
- Majhiguda
- Nunkhari
- Gadbapada
- Kusumput
- Amliput
- Sindhiguda
- Maliguda
- Kasalkundaguma
- Angel
- Balikunda
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, 2026-05-06
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)