ODISHA DISTRICT GAZETTEERS
NABARANGPUR
GOPABANDHU ACADEMY OF ADMINISTRATION
[GAZETTEERS UNIT]
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA
ODISHA DISTRICT GAZETTEERS
NABARANGPUR
DR. TARADATT, IAS
CHIEF EDITOR, GAZETTEERS &
DIRECTOR GENERAL, TRAINING COORDINATION
GOPABANDHU ACADEMY OF ADMINISTRATION
[GAZETTEERS UNIT]
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA
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PREFACE
The Gazetteer is an authoritative document that describes a District in all its hues–the economy, society, political and administrative setup, its history, geography, climate and natural phenomena, biodiversity and natural resource endowments. It highlights key developments over time in all such facets, whilst serving as a placeholder for the timelessness of its unique culture and ethos. It permits viewing a District beyond the prismatic image of a geographical or administrative unit, since the Gazetteer holistically captures its socio-cultural diversity, traditions, and practices, the creative contributions and industriousness of its people and luminaries, and builds on the economic, commercial and social interplay with the rest of the State and the country at large. The document which is a centrepiece of the District, is developed and brought out by the State administration with the cooperation and contributions of all concerned. Its purpose is to generate awareness, public consciousness, spirit of cooperation, pride in contribution to the development of a District, and to serve multifarious interests and address concerns of the people of a District and others in any way concerned.
Historically, the ―Imperial Gazetteers‖ were prepared by Colonial
administrators for the six Districts of the then Orissa, namely, Angul, Balasore, Cuttack, Koraput, Puri, and Sambalpur. After Independence, the Scheme for compilation of District Gazetteers devolved from the Central Sector to the State Sector in 1957. Within the State, the responsibility for developing the Gazetteers was transferred from the Revenue Department to the Gopabandhu Academy of Administration (GAA) in 1999. In this process,
the ―District Gazetteers‖ of all thirteen Districts were published as follows:
Koraput/1966 Sambalpur/1971,
(Supplement/1984),
Dhenkanal/1972,
Mayurbhanj/1967,
Sundargarh/1975,
Bolangir/1968,
Puri/1977,
Kalahandi/1980, Boudh- Khondmal/1983, Keonjhar/1986, Balasore/1994, Ganjam/1995 and Cuttack/1992. The Gazetteers of Balasore/1994, Ganjam/1995 and Cuttack/1992, however, could not capture the implications of the reorganisation of these Districts. Though 10 out of 13 Districts had been reorganised into 27 and the total number of Districts in the State had
gone up to 30, the reality remained to be captured in the Districts‘
Gazetteers.
Be it so, the time is now ripe to build on the rich cache of Gazetteers available across the Districts in Odisha, and to develop updated documents that capture the essence of each District as it exists today. The Districts have evolved over the last couple of decades as a result of various natural phenomena and unforeseen forces, besides a slew of economic and social sector reforms undertaken at the National, State and local levels. The
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resulting impacts have been more cataclysmic in some Districts than others, which are reflective of the complex dynamics at work which determine a District‘s state of preparedness and receptivity to change or its absorptive capacity. This diversity in impacts across Districts is now captured both in measurable parameters and non-measurable underlying trends and perceptions in the updated District Gazetteers.
Besides catching up with the developments in each of the thirty Districts and the environs, it was felt opportune to capture the major shifts in areas and issues of priority and concern across the districts by suitably restructuring the document, to recount the post-Independence events in brief for their historic value and evolutionary impact on the District, and to bridge an important lacuna, viz. incorporating the role played by freedom fighters
from each District in India‘s Independence, which was sparingly mentioned
in the Gazetteers initially prepared by colonial administrators.Though the updated Gazetteers draw heavily on the past Gazetteers of thirteen undivided Districts, the documents were also restructured to provide for elimination, modification and insertion of some issues in discussion with the Consulting Editors and District Administration in order to present a comprehensive and contemporaneous picture of the Districts.
The task of developing and updating the Gazetteers for the present 30
Districts was initiated in the first week of May 2015. Procedurally, a series of time-bound initiatives taken since then were bed-rocked on the complete and continuous involvement of the District Collector and heads of concerned line departments at the district level in the coverage of issues and developments over time, coupled with specific participation of a number of scholars and experts, including some senior serving and retired civil servants. A standardised synopsis of the District Gazetteer was prepared by GAA to assist in the development of the initial drafts by each District Administration. For this exercise, a Committee was constituted by GAA under the District Collector to steer the development of the initial draft for the respective District. A number of Sub-Committees comprising officials and experts were also constituted, again at District level, for drafting specific and thematic chapters. The initial drafts prepared by the District Administration were received by GAA starting in August 2015. After in-house scrutiny of these drafts, detailed comments and suggestions for bridging information gaps were sent by GAA to enable suitable revisions by the District Administration. A process of continuous monitoring of the development of the next stage of drafts was followed, and the second drafts were received by GAA by the end of October 2015. This revised draft Gazetteer of each District was then placed for scrutiny at two levels– the first by the public at
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(gopabandhuacademy.gov.in), and the second by a set of 30 Experts, one for each District, designated as Consulting Editor.
Simultaneously, Government in General Administration Department
(GAD) with the approval of Hon‘ble Chief Minister reconstituted the State
Advisory Committee (SAC) and State Working Committee (SWC) on Gazetteers vide Notification No. 23473 dated 26 September, 2015. The SAC continues to be headed by Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha. The SWC hereafter was to be chaired by the Director General, GAA, who had also been notified as the ex-officio Chief Editor of Gazetteers, besides being granted functional freedom to prepare and publish the Gazetteers. A series of meetings were held by DG, GAA with the Consulting Editors appointed for refinement of the drafts prepared at the District level to discuss and to ensure accuracy and coherence, quality and content. The Consulting Editors also visited the respective Districts regularly to interact with senior officials, governmental and non-governmental organisations and persons concerned with the preparation of the initial two drafts. The drafts reviewed by DG, GAA, with the Consulting Editors were forwarded to the District Collectors for authentication of content and further improvements in quality, wherever felt necessary.
The final round of discussions with the Consulting Editors was held in
GAA in February through till April 2016, and the draft Gazetteers, finalised at this stage again in consultation with the District Collectors, were placed before the SWC. Drafts recommended by it were placed before the SAC for approval.
Nabarangpur district came into existence after the reorganization of
Koraput district on 2nd October 1992. The district nestles in the lap of nature, and is proud of its rich cultural diversity with predominance of tribal communities, which still retain their indigenous culture. Yet at the same time, they have embraced the ongoing developments taking place in the district. Ms Rashmita Panda, IAS, Collector, Nabarangpur, and her team of officers and the local experts have contributed tremendously collecting data, culling grains out of chaff and preparing the initial draft of the District Gazetteer. I thank the Collector and her team for their genuine interest.
Prof. Praffullo Chandro Mohapatro, the Consulting Editor of this district gazetteer, has been working in Nabarangpur for a long time. He has used his rich experience of the district in addition to his academic expertise to finetune the draft and to present an immensely readable Gazetteer. Any number of words of mine will not suffice to thank him.
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I convey my sincere gratitude to the members of the State Working
Committee and State Advisory Committee for their valuable inputs and advice. I will be failing in my duty if I do not acknowledge the contribution of my friends and colleagues in the State Administration and particularly those at GAA, namely Dr. Rabinarayan Patra, Deputy Director (Studies), Sri S .K. Choudhury, Resource Person, Sri Subrat Kuanr, Research Officer and Dr. Rabindra Kumar Swain, Compiler.
Finally, despite optimum efforts to plug the obvious limitations and lacunae in the Gazetteer, factual deficiencies, misspellings and grammatical errors might be found. The responsibility for all its shortcomings doubtless remains mine. With an eye to the future, I urge all readers, including thematic experts, young scholars, and luminaries, to offer their valuable suggestions for improving the quality and contents of the document for the next addition with the passage of time.
I would like to thank the people of the District of Nabarangpur for their contributions over time to the making of the District as we now know it, and commend this document to them and to all other stakeholders within the State and beyond.
Dr. Taradatt, IAS
Chief Editor, Gazetteers &
Director General, GAA
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NOTE OF THE CONSULTING EDITOR
The task for preparation of the Gazetteer of Nabarangpur district as the consulting editor was entrusted to me by Dr. Taradatt, IAS, Director General Gopabandhu Academy of Administration vide his D.O. No. 5568/GAA dated 01.10.2015. In fact the preparation of the Gazetteers for all the 30 districts was started by Dr. Taradatt in the month of May, 2015 when the Collectors of each district of the State were requested to prepare the Gazetteers of their respective districts. In Nabarangpur district the Collector entrusted each Chapter to the respective department in the district level. Specialists scholars were requested to draft the Chapters on History, People and Demography, Places of Interest and Tourism and General.
The draft copy of the Gazetteer received from the Collector,
Nabarangpur was handed over to me in the meeting of the consulting editors held on 7th October, 2015 along with a photocopy of the District Gazetteer of Koraput of 1966 edited by Dr. Nilamani Senapati and Dr. Nabin Kumar Sahu. The Gazetteer preparation section of Gopabandhu Academy of Administration was providing us the feedback regularly on climatic and weather conditions, status of flora and fauna, geology and mineral occurances, information relating to tourism and culture collected from the respective Directorate / Departments.
In consultation with Smt. Rashmita Panda, IAS Collector, Nabarangpur,
I fixed up 16th and 17th January 2016 and 6th February, 2016 and met with the District Level Officers of all the departments and requested them to submit me the revised draft by the end of 31st January, 2016. I again met with the officers to clarify my doubts on different matters on 6th February, 2016.
I am grateful to Dr. Taradatt, IAS for entrusting me the responsibility of editing the Gazetteer of Nabarangpur district. I am also thankful to Smt. Rasmita Panda, IAS, Collector, Nabarangpur who extended her full cooperation at each and every step of finalising of the Gazetteer. I am equally thankful to all the District level officers and their colleagues who have extended their cooperation in providing me the revised draft in the stipulated period of time.
My special thanks to Sri Suresh Chandra Padhi, G.M., DIC,
Nabarangpur who was the Coordinator for collection of all the information from the district and provided me the information as and when I needed.
The scholars and specialists who extended their cooperation in writing two Chapters also deserve thanks. My Ph.D. scholars and the staff of the Council of Analytical Tribal Studies (COATS) have extended to me all cooperation at the time of my need. I extend my cordial thanks to all of them.
(Prophullo Chandro Mohapatro)
Consulting Editor
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CONTENTS
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- CHAPTER-I
GENERAL
Location of the District– Origin and evolution of the name of the district and significance there of Natural division of the district and land formation– Description of the hill system– river system rivulets– springs waterfalls– lakes and tanks aquatic life sanctuaries– River System– The Indravati River– Springs– Lakes– Tanks and Ponds– Geological Formation– Minerals– Minerals Occurrences– Flora– status of Fauna– Richness and Distribution– Climatic condition and Weather– Forest– Fishery– Upper Indravati Project– Reservoir– Power House– Irrigation– Other Benefit of the Project– Displacement and Rehabilitation– Problems of Nabarangpur district due to Construction of this Project– Dandakaranya Development Authority (DDA)– Games and Sports in Nabarangpur District– National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)– Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)– Women Self-Help Group (WSHG) under Left Wing Extremist (LWE) area– Rural– Works Organisation– Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Division–Nabarangpur– Confluence of Latitude and Longitude Degree at Hattigam Village– Forests– General Description– History of Conservancy– Rights and Concessions– Joint Forest Management– Shrinkage of Forest– The Local Needs– Management.
CHAPTER-II HISTORY
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Pre-History– Proto History and Early Historical perspective of the district– Pre and Proto History– Archaeology– Relics of Nabarangpur District– Coins– Inscriptions of Nala Dynasty– Early history– The Satavahanas– The Ikshvakus– The Vakatakas– The Nalas– The Matharas– The Eastern Gangas– The Somavamsis– The ChindakaNagas– The Matsya family– The Silavamsa– The Suryavamsa– Muslim Occupation– British Occupation– A Peep into the Freedom Struggle– Freedom Fighters– History of Nabarangpur District in the Post Independent Period– Merger of Princely state(s)– Constitution of Dandakaranya Development Authority (1958)– Dr. SadasibaTripathy Son of the Soil became C.M. of Odisha– Gazetteer of Koraput District– Creation of Deer Park (1986)– Establishment of 1st Major Industry- Mangalam Timbers (1987)– Upcoming of New Education Institutions - Creation of Nabarangpur District– Upcoming of Upper Indravati Project
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PEOPLE AND DEMOGRAPHY
Decadal Growth Rate –Sex Ratio –Density of population –
Distribution of Workers –Urban and Rural dwellers –Birth Rate and Death Rate –Literacy –Tribes of Nabarangpur District –Bhotra –Gond – Paraja –Kandha –Omanatya –Halva –Saora –Castes and Tribes –Inter Caste Relations –Religion and Religious beliefs –Tribal Religion –
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Languages –Dravidian Adibasi Langauages –Manners, Customs and Traditions –Fairs & Festivals –Migration
- CHAPTER-IV
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AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION
Introduction– Nature and Type of Soil– Land utilization pattern in the District– Irrigation – Medium– Minor Irrigation projects and traditional mode of irrigation– Cropping Pattern and Crop Rotation– Sugarcane based on Alluvial Soil of Indravati river valley– Pulse based on Red Soil of Bellari–Angi–Turi River valley– Maize based on mixed yellow and red soil in Bhaskel river valley and other Nalla– Groundnut based on Black Soil in Tel river valley– Crops grown in the district and other Agriculture produce– Use of Agricultural Implements– Manures and Fertiliser– Agricultural Technology and Productivity– Farm Implements– Manures and Fertiliser– Crop Diseases– Control Mechanism and Crop protection– Control Mechanism– Crop Protection–KrishiVigyan Kendra– Soil testing and State farms–KrishiVigyan Kendra– Soil Testing– State Farms– Natural Calamities– Disaster Management– Climate Change and impact on Agriculture– Change of Cropping Pattern– Climate Change– Marketing Problem– Role of Women in Agriculture in the District– Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA)– District Level– Block Level– Village Level– Achievement of ATMA– Fisheries Sector of Nabarangpur District– Fisheries: - An overview– Resources in Fisheries Sector–MatsyajibiUnnayanYojana (MUY)– Animal Husbandry– Livestock Growth– Administration– Disease of Livestock and Poultry– Dairy Development– Small Ruminant Development– Poultry sector Development– Marketing of Livestock Products– Marketing of Milk– Marketing of Sheep and Goat– Marketing of Poultry Meat– Biodiversity in Livestock of Nabarangpur district– Other Livestock organizations in the district– Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (OMFED)– Soil Conservation– Cashew Plantations– WHS/Check Dam– Misc. Tree Plantation– Field Bunding– Watershed
CHAPTER-V INDUSTRIES
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Large Scale Industry– Mines & Minerals– Micro– Small & Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs)– Handicraft Sector– Administrative Set-up– List of Approved Crafts– Important Craft Pockets in Nabarangpur District– Training Support– Awardees– Lacquer craft– History of Craft– Dhokra Casting– History of the Craft Village– Tribal Jewelry– History of Tribal Jewelry Craft Village– History of Wood Carving Villages– Tribal Painting– Wrought Iron Craft– Paddy Craft– Paper Mache Craft– Bamboo Work– Terracotta– Power–Industrialization– Hotel and Hospitality Industry– Wages– Labour Laws– Industrial Relations– Protection of Labour– Trade Unionism and Welfare of Labour– Wage Payment system and wage rate for different categories of workers– Employable opportunity and Migration– Constitution of India Vis-À-Vis Labour Legislations– Fundamental Rights &Labour Laws– Industrial Relations– Implementation of Labour Laws: Trade Unionism–Labour Welfare
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BANKING– TRADE AND COMMERCE
Evaluation of Banking– Trade and Commerce in the District–
Nationalised Bank– their operation and Present Position– Co- operative Credit and Co-operative Banks– Establishment of Market Committee– Regulation of Agricultural Marketing– Area of Operation– Commodities
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Infrastructure at R.M.C. Market Yards– Construction of Threshing Floor Cum Cover Shed–Computerisation of R.M.Cs.– Training & Publicity–
- Marketing Problems Existing in the Market Area
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Required– Operation of Check Points– Revenue Income & Expenditure of R.M.C.Nabarangpur– Procurement of Paddy–Centres of Trade and Business of Nabarangpur District– Whole sale and retail trade– Weight and Measures– Legal Metrology– History– Establishment of Standards– Enforcement of Weights and Measures– Establishment of Department– Life Insurance– Scope of employment– LIC of India– Branch Office– Nabarangpur– General Insurance Corporation– Crop Insurance– Mission Shakti and SHGs– Prime Ministers Jana DhanaYojana (PMJDY)
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TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
Evolution of Transport & Communication System in the District–
Old time trade routes in the district– Road Transport– Vehicle and Conveyance– Transport Facilities Provided To The Public– Passenger Service– Goods Transport Service– Railways– Waterways and Ferry System– Airstrips and Aerodrome– State Highway– Rural Roads ( RWD Roads)– Transport & Communication facilities by Rural Development Department (Rural works Organisation) in the District of Nabarangpur– Forest Roads and the local needs– Electrification– Motor Vehicle– Postal Services– Telephone and Cell Phone Services
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ECONOMIC TRENDS
Defining DDP & GDP– DDP Calculation– Major Applications of
DDP– Status of DDP of Nabarangpur District– Work participation rate in the District– Employment situation in Nabarangpur district– Human Development Index– Economy of Nabarangpur district– Classification of economic activities– The Agriculture Sector– The Industry Sector– The Service Sector– Excise– Commercial Tax
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GENERAL AND REVENUE ADMINISTRATION
Historical background (undivided Koraput District where
Nabarangpur was a Sub-Division)– Present administrative set-up– Revenue Administration–KotpadPargana– Management of the Estate– Various Land-Revenue Systems–Ryotwari–Inams–Mustajari– Rents– Present system of survey– assessment and collection of land-revenue– Introduction and Programme– Method of survey– Administrative control– Progress– Rent settlement– Legal position and preparation of Khatas under different status– Present Status of Settlement Operation of Nabarangpur District– Land Reforms– Restriction on alienation of land–Bhoodan– Rural wages and agricultural labour– Administration of other sources of revenue– Stamps– Income-tax– Sales Tax–