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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Taramal is a village in Puttasing mandal, Rayagada district, Odisha, with a population of 376 across 81 households. The village has a literacy rate of 55.1% and is located at coordinates 19.144°N, 83.898°E.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
NILAKANTH SABAR
Contact: 63****3775
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- LGD code
- 427154
- Pincode
- 765022
- Post office
- Gunupur
- Population
- 376
- Households
- 81
- Literacy rate
- 55.1%
- Sex ratio
- 1089 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 157
- Distance to district centre
- 51 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 6 km
- Distance to Bhubaneswar
- 239 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 600 km
- Nearest railway station
- Gunupur · 12 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Govt. Hospital, Gunupur · 12 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Taramal compares
By population, Taramal ranks #19 of 33 villages in Puttasing mandal.
Literacy rate
%
55.1%
+20.7% vs mandal average
- Taramal
- 55.1%
- Puttasing mandal
- 34.4%
- Rayagada district
- 42.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,089
+54 vs mandal average
- Taramal
- 1,089
- Puttasing mandal
- 1,035
Household size
people per home
4.6
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Taramal
- 4.6
- Puttasing mandal
- 4.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Taramal at a glance
Taramal is a village of 376 people in 81 households (Census 2011) in Puttasing block, Rayagada district, Odisha, the 19th-largest of 33 villages in Puttasing block. Literacy is 55%, 21 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 1,089 women per 1,000 men. It lies 51 km from the Rayagada district centre, 48 km from Pathapatnam, the nearest town, 12 km from Gunupur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 765022, served by Gunupur post office; the LGD village code is 427154. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govt. Hospital, Gunupur, 12 km away. The sarpanch is NILAKANTH SABAR.
Gram panchayat: Ghanantri →
Key facts — Taramal
- LGD code
- 427154
- Pincode
- 765022
- Post office
- Gunupur
- Population (Census 2011)
- 376
- Population (projected 2026)
- 443
- Households
- 81
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1089
- Literacy rate
- 55.1%
- Coordinates
- 19.14436°N, 83.89814°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Koraput
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gunupur
- Member of Parliament
- Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- NILAKANTH SABAR
- Block / Mandal
- Puttasing
Getting there
How to reach Taramal
Nearest town · 15,954 people
Pathapatnam · ≈ 48 km
≈ 1 h 39 min by car · 1 h 57 min by bike
DirectionsDistance to cities · straight line
- Bhubaneswar239 kmcapital
- Kolkata600 km
- Hyderabad604 km
- Chennai777 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationGunupur12 km
- Bus stopGunupur Bus Station12 km
- Hospital / PHCGovt. Hospital, Gunupur12 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India12 km
- Petrol pumpSri Kanthamma Filling Station19 km
- CollegeSri Venkateswara Degree College Kotturu41 km
- Police stationPOLICE STATION46 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Taramal
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga (Dakinyam), BhimpurTemple2.6 km ↗
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 765022
Villages near Taramal
Other villages in Puttasing mandal
View all 32 →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, 2026-09-06
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)