Kujendri

Kujendri
Kujendri
Village
	Kujendri Location in Odisha, India Kujendri Kujendri (India)
	Coordinates: 19°07′47″N 83°46′11″E / 19.12972°N 83.76972°ECoordinates: 19°07′47″N 83°46′11″E / 19.12972°N 83.76972°E
Country	India
State	Odisha
District	Rayagada
Government
• Type	Democratic
Languages
• Official	Odia
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	765023
Telephone code	06862
Vehicle registration	OD 18
Website	odisha.gov.in

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Kujendri is a small village of Rayagada district in the state of Odisha, India. There is a Govt. High school of welfare department since 1949. The veteran Gandhian and Jamnalal Bajaj award winner Biswanath Pattnaik^[1]^[2] came to kujendri in around 1940, founded Banabasi Seva Samiti^[3] and worked for the development of local tribal people. The village is well known as the birthplace of the tribal lady freedom fighter Sandi Sabara.^[2] who met Sri Patnaik there and worked in the Bhoodan movement.^[4] Kujendri was an important place in the history of Bhoodan movement. The Bhoodan activists in a padayatra, in the leadership of Acharya Vinoba Bhave reached here on 8 March 1952 and mobilized the people of the area to donate lands.^[5] It also has a temple-"Trinath temple", built by late shri Appana choudhury.

Demography

Kujendri is a tribal dominated village. The population of the village, as per India census 2011 is 3108, with 1594 males and 1514 females.^[6]

Geography

Kujendri is situated at lat. 19°7′47″N 83°46′11″E / 19.12972°N 83.76972°E / 19.12972; 83.76972 and towards 43 km east of the dist. Headquarters as well as the nearest railway station Gunupur.

References

↑ "Jamnalal Bajaj award winner Biswanath Patnaik"
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Odisha Review" An article by Rahunath Rath in Odisha Review 2010
↑ "Banabasi seba samiti and Agnya" Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Sandhi sabara - "a little known tribal lady freedom fighter of Kujendri"
↑ "Odisha Review 2013" An article on Bhoodan Movement in Koraput
↑ "Official website of census india"

External links

Official website of Rayagada district

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[1] "Jamnalal Bajaj award winner Biswanath Patnaik"

[name-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Odisha Review" An article by Rahunath Rath in Odisha Review 2010

[3] "Banabasi seba samiti and Agnya" Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Sandhi sabara - "a little known tribal lady freedom fighter of Kujendri"

[5] "Odisha Review 2013" An article on Bhoodan Movement in Koraput

[6] "Official website of census india"

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v t e Rayagada district
Constituencies	Bissam Cuttack Gunupur Rayagada
Towns and villages	Bhaliapadar Bissam Cuttack Chandili Chatikona Gudari Gunupur Kujendri Muniguda Padmapur Rayagada
Other districts	Angul Balangir Balasore Bargarh Bhadrak Boudh Cuttack Debagarh Dhenkanal Gajapati Ganjam Jagatsinghpur Jajpur Jharsuguda Kalahandi Kandhamal Kendrapara Kendujhar Khordha Koraput Malkangiri Mayurbhanj Nabarangpur Nayagarh Nuapada Puri Sambalpur Subarnapur Sundergarh