Kendujhar
Kendujhar district profile
Kendujhar is one of the districts covered by PACS in Orissa. The district, also known as Keonjhar, covers an area of 8,240 sq km in the northern part of Orissa. It is bordered by Mayurbhanj district and Bhadrak district to the east, Jajpur district to the south, Dhenkanal and Sundargarh districts to the west, and Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district to the north. Kendujhar town is the district headquarters.
The district has three sub-divisions -- Anandapur, Champua and Kendujhar -- and 10 tehsils. The Baitarani is an important river. Kendujhar boasts one of the oldest rock formations in the world (approximately 38,000 million years old), covering an area of 100 sq km, at Asanpat.
Scheduled tribes constitute around 44% of the total population; scheduled castes constitute around 12%.
| No | Indicator | Data |
| 1 | Population | |
| Persons | 1,561,990 | |
| Male | 790,036 | |
| Female | 771,954 | |
| Children (0 to 4 years) | 162,527 | |
| Decadal growth (1991-2001) | 16.79% | |
| Rural | 1,348,967 (86.36%) | |
| Urban | 213,023 (13.64%) | |
| Sex ratio (females per 1,000 males) | 977 | |
| Household size (per household) | 5 | |
| SC population | 181,488 (11.62%) | |
| ST population | 695,141 (44.50%) | |
| 2 | Literacy rate | |
| Persons | 59.24 | |
| Male | 71.99 | |
| Female | 46.22 | |
| 3 | Religious groups (largest three) | |
| Hindus | 1,525,874 | |
| Muslims | 20,390 | |
| Others | 6,750 | |
| 4 | Important towns (largest three) | |
| Barbil | 52,627 | |
| Kendujhar | 51,845 | |
| Joda | 38,689 | |
| 5 | Amenities in villages | |
| Total inhabited villages | 2,069 | |
| Villages with: | ||
| Safe drinking water | 2,041 | |
| Electricity (domestic) | 1,237 | |
| Primary schools | 1,677 | |
| Medical facility | 374 | |
| Paved approach road | 956 | |
| 6 | Health | |
| Pregnant women* who received at least three or more antenatal checkups | 47.5% | |
| Pregnant women* who received at least one TT injection | 80.0% | |
| Women* who had institutional delivery | 34.3% | |
| Children aged 12-23 months who were fully immunised** | 58.0% | |
| Children aged 12-23 months who received at least one dose of Vitamin A | 71.7% | |
| 7 | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | |
| Households issued job cards# | 285,826 | |
| Cumulative person days employment generated# | 2,454,405 | |
| Households completed 100 days employment# | 2,588 | |
Sources:
*Women aged 15-49 who had their last live/still birth after December 31, 2003
** BCG, three injections of DPT, three doses of polio (excluding Polio 0) and measles
# As on September 3, 2010
Indicator groups 1-5: Census of India 2001http://censusindia.gov.in/Dist_File/datasheet-2106.pdf
Indicator group 6: Tables 4.6, 4.9 and 5.7 in District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS-3), 2007-08: India. Orissa. International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, 2010; funded by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Indicator group 7: State-wise NREGA Implementation Status Report in http://nrega.nic.in viewed September 3, 2010
