Komna is a town and block in

Nuapada district Nuapada district is located in Odisha state in India. Nuapada town is the headquarters of the district. It has 1 Subdivision: Nuapada; five blocks: Khariar, Sinapali, Boden, Komna, and Nuapada. Nuapada District has 3 Notified Area Councils: ...

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

, India. Komna is the biggest block or taluk in

. Komna is 39 km distance from its District Main City

Nuapada Nuapada is a town in western region of Odisha state of eastern India. It is the headquarter of Nuapada district. Nuapada district was carved out of the undivided Kalahandi district on 27 March 1993. It is on the western border of Odisha with Ch ...

, and 330 km distant from its State Main City, Bhubaneswar. This town is situated in western side of

and near the border of Chhattisgarh state.

Demographics

, total population of Komna block was 117,834, where it constitutes 49.5% of male and 50.5% female. Due to the lack of infrastructure of the town because it is situated in

which is considered as one of the backward districts of

, certain communities or backward caste are most of the total population as total SC population of the town was 15,980 and Total ST population was 52086.

Block Administration

It is the biggest block of

. There are 27 Gram Panchayats (GP's) under Komna Block: *Agreen Panchayat *Bhella Panchayat *Budhikomna Panchayat *Darlipada Panchayat *Gandamer Panchayat *Jadamunda Panchayat *Jatgarh Panchayat *Jhagrahi Panchayat *Kandetara Panchayat *Komna Panchayat *Konabira Panchayat *Kureswar Panchayat *Kurumpuri Panchayat *Lakhna Panchayat *Michhapali Panchayat *Mundapala Panchayat *Nuagaon Panchayat *Pendrawan Panchayat *Rajana Panchayat *Samarsing Panchayat *Sialati Panchayat *Silva Panchayat *Soseng Panchayat *Sunabeda Panchayat *Tarbod Panchayat *Thickpali Panchayat *Tikrapada Panchayat

Languages

The chief communicative language of the town is Sambalpuri. Odia is used as the second language for communication.

Education

Due to lack of awareness about education among the people and protectiveness of the tribal peoples about females in the district as it affects the female literacy. Female literacy is very low as compared to male literacy of the block.

Absolute literates and literacy rate

According to the census of 2011, the block was :SCHOOLS *Prathamika Balaka Vidyalaya, Komna *Girls Proj U.P.School, Komna *Jita Mitra High School, Komna *Kasturaba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, Komna *Krishna Public School, Komna *Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir, Komna *Sri Aurobindo Purnanga Shiksha Kendra, Komna :COLLEGES * Panchayat Samiti Degree College, Komna * Panchayat samiti Junior college Komna * Panchayat Junior College, Budhikomna (Komna)

Temples

ମା ସମଲେଶ୍ବରୀ ମନ୍ଦିର ଶିବ ମନ୍ଦିର ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ମନ୍ଦିର ମା ଚଣ୍ଡୀ ସମଲେଶ୍ବରୀ ମନ୍ଦିର, ହନୁମାନ ମନ୍ଦିର ମା ଭଣ୍ଡାରଘରୁଆଣି, ମା ବୈଷ୍ଣଦେବୀ File:Jagannath Temple Komna.jpg, Jagannath Temple Komna

Festivals

Nuakhai Nuakhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Western Odisha in India. Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season. According to the calendar it is observed on ''panchami tithi'' (the fifth day) of the lunar for ...

Rathayatra Ratha Yatra (), or Chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot. The term particularly refers to the annual Ratha Yatra in Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other East Indian states, particularly the Odia festival that involve a ...

* Diwali *

Holi Holi (), also known as the Festival of Colours, the Festival of Spring, and the Festival of Love,The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) p. 874 "Holi /'həʊli:/ noun a Hindu spring festival ...". is an ancient Hindu religious festival ...

* Makar Sakranti * Dasara

References

External links

Gram Panchayat under Komna BlockBlock level GIS AtlasNuapada District Information
{{Nuapada district Cities and towns in Nuapada district