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Country
  
India

District
  
Ganjam

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Elevation
  
19 m

State
  
Odisha

Founded by
  
Kanhu Charan Mahapatra

PIN
  
761018

Population
  
2,450 (2014)

Ranjhalli

Ranjhalli (ରଣଝାଲୀ) is a beautiful Village Panchayat near the river bank of Rushikulya and located at heart of the Ganjam district. It has population of nearly about 2400 with 700 families (as per the 2011). Major residents were farmers and labors.

Contents

Map of Ranajhali, Odisha 761018

History

From the very Beginning this village has been established with only 2 streets named Kama Sahi & Bada Danda Sahi. And took year after year to expand. The main cause of expanding and establishment was its much fertilized land and availability of water for farming and cultivation. Due to well communication among nearby cities this Village came to front view of Purushottampur Block. And now it has been a major Grama Panchayat in this Block.

Geography

Located 35 km from The Berhampur Railway Station through Roadways. There's no alternative other than roadways. adjacent to SH32 and Rushikulya. Near by airport is Biju Patnaik International Airport at Bhubaneswar at distance of 140 km away. Surrounded by few small Mountains as like Keshpur Mountain and The Famous Maa Tara Tarini Mountain at distance of 200meter & 2 km respectively. Number of men made water bodies were also present for daily use, Irrigation and for Fishing.

There are Following Major Streets

Demographic

The Major Part of Populations were aged between 20–35 years. and 68% will be Female out of total. 60% will come under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. other 40% will be Brahmin General with Bunch of Other Backward Class

Peoples

Few Ideological Idols were origin from the soil of this village like Mr. Shyam Sundar Padhi (Former Director General of Odisha Police) and his wife Mrs. Amiya Padhi (The First Lady Judge of Honorable Odisha High Court) and one of the historical person who has been a soldier in Burma from the British age named Late Shree Mohana Parida was also from this soil. he holds the record of leaving more than 100 years but doesn't placed in any gunnies book of world record due to lack of official evident and communication gap.

Recognized Commercial Firms

Peoples of this village were established some of commercial firms. Such as lots of Poultry Firms, Vegetable Firms, Mushroom Firms etc. There are three Petrol Pumps also, invested and managed by few residents. Coincidentally there was a Private Ayurveda Drug Manufacturing Unit also named Kalinga Ayurvedic Pharmacy Link label

Schools

There is One Upper Primary School Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan established in 1953 providing education from standard 1 to 7 in Odia medium. The number of student will be about to 300.

There is also a high school named Beer Bajarang High Schoolunder Board of Secondary Education, Odisha from standard 8 to 10. The high school was opened in the year 1995 with only 35 students and 3 teachers. the class was commenced with in a single room of Panchayat Office premises at prilliminary stage. But nowadays this school is growing under State Government With a huge Capacity of 250 students out of which 143 students only in Class 10. Last Year. these number of students are due to incoming numbers of children from near by villages.

But nowadays a growing number of kids are preferring to study at private nursing schools located in Purushottampur

There is no college for higher studies since at a distance of 3 km only One college is available

The Grama Panchayat Ranjhalli

This Panchayat Consists of Five Villages

  1. Mukundpur
  2. Keshpur
  3. Pichuli
  4. Hatapur
  5. Hundat

References

Ranjhalli Wikipedia