Rayagada, Odisha

Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 396

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26 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtTransfer of EC(s) from M/s. Vedanta Limited to Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited [for EC letter no.…
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance refusedApplication for Extension of validity of Environmental Clearance Hazaridanga-VI Stone Quarry Over an area…
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedCommon Bio-Medical Waste Treatment by M/s Medwaste Management Pvt. Ltd.
8 Oct 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtTransfer of EC(s) from M/s. Vedanta Limited to Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited [for EC letter no.…
6 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details suppliedMaikanch- II Stone Quarry over an area of 6.80 acres or 2.751 ha in village Maikanch, Tahasil- Kashipur in…
26 Sept 2026 · ClosedDelisted automaticallyTransfer of EC(s) from M/s. Vedanta Limited to Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited [for EC letter no.…
23 Sept 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedPROPOSAL FOR TRANSFER OF EC OF GUNUPUR STONE QUARRY-II OVER AN AREA OF 10.00 ACRES OR 4.046 HECTARES…
21 Sept 2026 · Details soughtEssential details soughtTransfer of EC(s) from M/s. Vedanta Limited to Vedanta Aluminium Metal Limited [for EC letter no.…
16 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedBudaguda Sand Bed over an area of 3.00 acres or 1.214 Hectares bearing khata No. 17, Plot No. 308/P in the…
15 Sept 2026 · FiledSubmittedSilagumapadar Stone Quarry over an area of 5.00 acres or 2.023 hectares is situated on bearing Khata no.…
7 Sept 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details suppliedPROPOSAL FOR TRANSFER OF EC OF GUNUPUR STONE QUARRY-II OVER AN AREA OF 10.00 ACRES OR 4.046 HECTARES…
2 Sept 2026 · DecidedStandard Terms of Reference grantedProposed 6.0 MTPA Alumina Refinery with 280 MW Co-gen Power Plant at villages - Alanda, Dengasil,…

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: 8
Forest land sought for diversion: 310 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 1
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 2

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 128 of 128 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 88 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: 128
Category A proposals: 12
Families declared displaced: 1,134
Families declared affected: 4,678

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. 4 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

Within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

This district was carved from Koraput in 1992. C.O. 109 fixes its area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 31 December 1977, and a district drawn later does not change the ground the Order scheduled. On that date every part of this district lay within Koraput, which the Order names as a whole, so every part of it is a Scheduled Area. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj lists this district among notified Fifth Schedule Areas.

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

What the record shows

Half or more of the people counted here in 2011 were Scheduled Tribe: 56.0%, against 8.55% nationally.
Agricultural labourers, who work other people's land for wages, make up 53% of workers here. Compensation for acquired land is paid to those who hold title to it, so it does not reach them. They can still claim the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), because its section 3(c) counts a family whose livelihood depends on the land as an affected family, wherever that Act governs how the land is obtained.
Literacy was 49.8% in 2011 against 72.98% nationally, so notices and documents issued in writing during a consultation may reach fewer people here.
This district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Under section 41(3) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), land here can be acquired only with the prior consent of the Gram Sabha, and the requirement holds even when an acquisition is urgent.
128 clearance proposals name this district, where 56% of people are Scheduled Tribe and 74% of workers depend on the land. 12 of those proposals are Category A, the class the central government appraises.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 1,134 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: 9,67,911
Households: 2,26,144
Average household size: 4.28; 0.57 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 56.0%; 47.4 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 14.4%; 2.2 points below IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 15.3%; 1.8 points above IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 49.8%; 23.2 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 1,051; 108.2 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: 4,67,122
Work participation rate: 48.3%; 8.5 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 74.4%; 19.8 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 21.3%; 3.4 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 53.1%; 23.2 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 51.2%; 26.5 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 2.1%; 1.7 points below 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: 24.9%; 21.2 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 whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 5.1%; 19.2 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: 67.8%; 16.0 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: 3.3%; 5.0 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-Q12026-Q3

The timeline counts 115 of the 128 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 13, 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. 4 of them cover periods for which we have read few filing dates so far, and they count only the proposals whose date we have.

What kind of projects these are

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

Non-Coal Mining 87.5%
Industrial Projects - 1 4.7%
Industrial Projects - 2 3.9%
INFRA-2 2.3%
Other (1) 1.6%

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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