In 1962, 27-year-old Kishen Pattanayak became one of the youngest candidates elected from the Sambalpur parliamentary constituency. Kishen Pattanayak was born in Kalahandi Estate, located in the forest-covered region of…
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Bhakta Charan Das (born 26 November 1958) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian Parliament, and represented the Kalahandi constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha. Das…
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Bhubaneswar Behera: Early life Behera was born in a Brahmin family in the village of Kashibahal, a former state of Kalahandi. He was educated at Bhawanipatna and graduated in…
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Pratab Keshari Deo: Maharaja of the princely state of Kalahandi and represented Kalahandi Lok Sabha constituency from 1950 to 1979. He took inititaive for the Upper Indravati Irrigation Project in…
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The first Kalahandia Mountaineer scaled the Mount Everest. Jogabyasa Bhoi, a primary school teacher from Kalahandi district, climbed the world’s highest peak last Thursday. With this feat, he became the…
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Late Shri Ram Chandra Patra, IAS (retd.) (1919-2013) First IAS from Kalahandi, born in village Kashibahal and stayed at Gambhariguda(Dharamgarh).An able administrator, a social reformer and a pious spiritual person…