Sambalpur, Odisha

Partly Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 372

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23 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedAPPLICATION FOR FRESH ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE FOR GUMLOI STONE QUARRY OVER AN AREA OF 6.00 ACRES OR 2.428…
15 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedTalabira II & III Opencast Coal Mine
15 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedApplication for Environmental clearance of Road metal stone from Helei Stone Quarry-3 over an area of…
13 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtApplication for Split of Environmental Clearances (EC) issued to M/s. Bhushan Power & Steel Limited at…
13 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedAmendment in EC Conditions and Consolidation of all ECs issued to M/s. Bhushan Power & Steel Limited at…
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtEnvironmental Clerance for the redevlopment Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) Burla,…
12 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtProposal for Environment Clearance of Salesingh Stone quarry-B over an area of 22.55 Acres or 9.126…
10 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedExpansion of Aluminium Smelter from 6.8 LTPA to 9.0 LTPA and Captive Power Plant from 1230 MW to 1530 MW…
5 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedHatibari Stone Quarry -3 (Patch- 2) over an area of 3.09 acres or 1.250 hectares bearing Khata No.…
5 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedHatibari Stone Quarry -3 (Patch- 1) over an area of 2.14 acres or 0.870 hectares bearing Khata No.…
4 Oct 2026 · FiledSubmittedPROPOSAL FOR FRESH EC OF JHARBHUIN STONE QUARRY-A OVER AN AREA OF 6.50 ACRES OR 2.63 HECTARES AT…
3 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedEnvironment Clearance of proposed two (2) blocks of 2S+8 and one (1) block of 2S+9 multi storied apartment…

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 6
Forest land sought for diversion: 128 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 0
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 121 of 121 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 66 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 121
Category A proposals: 25
Families declared displaced: 511
Families declared affected: 400

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited. 2 of the proposals listed below declare displacement and are sited primarily in another district, so their figures are counted in that district’s total.

Fifth Schedule status

Partly within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

The Order fixes the area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 31 December 1977. It names only part of this district, so district-level status cannot settle whether a particular site is inside it.

OrderThe Scheduled Areas (States of Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa) Order, 1977 · C.O. 109, notified 1977-12-31

What the record shows

The Scheduled Tribe share here, 34.1%, is at least double the national figure of 8.55%.
Part of this district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Acquiring land for a project sited in that part needs the Gram Sabha's prior consent under section 41(3) of RFCTLARR, and the district-level record cannot settle whether a particular site lies there.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 511 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 10,41,099
Households: 2,49,597
Average household size: 4.17; 0.68 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 34.1%; 25.6 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 18.4%; 1.8 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 11.3%; 2.3 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 76.2%; 3.2 points above IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 976; 33.4 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 5,05,840
Work participation rate: 48.6%; 8.8 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 49.0%; 5.6 points below IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 17.2%; 7.5 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 31.8%; 1.9 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 33.4%; 8.7 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 11.7%; 7.9 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 47.7%; 1.6 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 10.8%; 13.5 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 61.7%; 9.9 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 5.7%; 2.6 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q22026-Q4

The timeline counts 109 of the 121 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 12, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. 2 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have. 2026-Q4 was still running when the register was read, so its column counts only the filings made up to that date.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 62%
Industrial Projects - 1 18.2%
Industrial Projects - 2 8.3%
INFRA-2 5%
Other (3) 6.6%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

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