Nuapada

Nuapada is a district of Odisha. The District of Nuapada was a part of Kalahandi District until early March 1993, but for administrative convenience, Kalahandi District was divided into two parts — Kalahandi and Nuapada. Nuapada District presently includes one sub-division Nuapada, five tehsils Nuapada, Komana, Khariar, Sinapalli and Boden and five network advancement squares Khariar, Sinapalli, Boden, Nuapada and Komna. Nuapada area has a populace of 606,490 generally equivalent to the country of Solomon Islands or the US territory of Wyoming. This gives it a positioning of 524th in India out of a sum of 640.

The area has a populace thickness of 157 occupants for every square kilometer 410/sq mi. Its populace development rate throughout the decade 2001-2011 was 14.28%. Nuapada has a sex proportion of 1020 females for each 1000 guys, and an education rate of 58.2%. Nuapada area was lastingly in the news amid the 1980s because of intense dry season conditions and claims of passings by starvation. At the point when Nuapada locale was cut out of Kalahandi region, all the dry season inclined squares went under the purview of Nuapada region, while the ripe land went under Kalahandi area. Subsequently the notorious "starvation passings" of Kalahandi were really an element of Nuapada and not of Kalahandi locale.