Welcome To Gajapati Tourist Guide

Best Places To Visit In Gajapati

You Can Get Your Required Tourist Details Form Here.

Best Places To Visit In Gajapati  Odisha,  are many beautiful sea beaches, hills and many temples that attract local and national tourists. The district has full of natural beauties, that give you a peaceful mind and boost motivation to move forward in your life.

Mankadadian Waterfall
Mankadadian Waterfall
Mahendragiri
Mahendragiri
Gandahati Waterfall
Gandahati Waterfall
Chandragiri
Chandragiri
Brundaban Palace
Brundaban Palace

Best Places In Gajapati Odisha

About Gajapati District

Gajapati District has been named after Maharaja Sri Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo, the Ex-Raja Sahib of Paralakhemundi bequest (the first Prime Minister of Odisha State), who is associated with his commitment in line of a different Odisha territory and incorporation of Paralakhemundi home in Odisha.

It got a District status on second October 1992 after bifurcated from Ganjam District. It was Parlakhemundi sub-division in Ganjam but it is just sub-division in Gajapati. There are 7 Tahasils, 7 Blocks, 1,534 Villages, 149 Gram Panchayats and 11 Police stations.

Covering an area of 3850 sq km, Gajapati District lies between 18°.6′ to 19°.39′ North Latitude and 83°.48′ to 84°.08′ East Longitude. Climatic condition in the Gajapati District shifts between 16 degree to 40 degree Celsius and the typical precipitation got is 1403.30 mm.The District is encircled by Andhra Pardesh in its South, Ganjam District in its East, Rayagada in its West and Kandhamal in its North.

The dirt and environment is appropriate for ranch of yields and there is an extraordinary capability of cultivation improvement in the District. In excess of 60% of grounds are arranged in uneven landscape and high terrains. Those are predominantly reasonable for agriculture. Other cultivable land are going under medium grounds (20%) and swamps (15%) classification.

Complete populace of the Gajapati District (2011 enumeration) was 5,77,817 containing absolute 2,82,882 male populace and 2,94,935 female populace. All out SC populace of the District is 39,175 and absolute ST populace of the District is 3,13,714.

Gajapati District acquires a lot of its income through the horticultural area. Additionally agro-handling and cultivation businesses add to the monetary abundance of this area. Economy of Gajapati District is agrarian in character. But a couple agro-handling units, there is no significant industry in the District. Be that as it may, a few exercises of bungalow businesses like Horn work, Jaikhadi pack, Cane and bamboo work, Ganjappa card and Pattachitra mukha, Broom work and Siali leaf plate making and Tibetan Woolen Carpet add to the economy of the District.

Best Places To Visit In Gajapati
Best Places To Visit In Gajapati Odisha
Best Places To Visit In Gajapati

Jagannatha Narayana Deo (political dissident), Apanna Parichha (political dissident), Pandit Jugal Kishore Panigrahy (political dissident), Kabiraj Hari Krushna Purohit (writer), Madhu Tripathy (writer), Lalit Kumar Adhikari (muscle head), Krushna Srichandan (artist/screenwriter), Hari Krushna Maharana (craftsman/painter), Chaitanya Rajaguru (writer/crystal gazer), Nilamani Panigrahy (soothsayer), Gourachandra Gajapati Narayan Deo (imperial part) and Sri Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo (regal part) are well known characters brought into the world in Gajapati District.

SKCG College, Women’s College, Centurion University, and Kendriya Vidyalaya are a portion of the major instructive establishments of the District. There are some imperative NGO-run private schools viz. Mahendratanaya Ashram School, Koinpur. 

Gajapati District encounters many fairs and celebrations round the year. Ratha Yatra, Dusherra, Kumar Purnima, Thakurani Yatra, Pongal are the renowned celebrations celebrated here with much ceremony and mirth.

History Of Gajapati District

The historical backdrop of Gajapati District actually repeats the a distant memory days of the historical backdrop of Gajapati rulers in the District. The recorded reports of the Gajapati District are accounted from when, Krushna Chandra gajapati Narayan Deo climbed the lofty position of the District.

The lord of Paralakhemundi Shri Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo had the sovereignty of the superb Gajapati rulers, who kept on being the incomparable power of Odisha for over seven centuries. The limit of Odisha, during that time was stretched out from the Ganga in the North to Udoyagiri in Nellore District in the South including the whole District of Ganjam.

At the point when Kolahomee, one of the children of Kapilendra Deo, at the later 50% of the fifteenth century vanquished this piece of Odisha, he introduced the realm and the Raj group of Paralakhemundi.As the previous history of Gajapati relates, Paralakhemundi was a zamindary domain around then, arranged at the western niche of the southern most piece of the ganjam District. Around then the Maliya tribals overwhelmed the land.

Gajapati, Odisha, India Map

Best Places In Gajapati Odisha