Jharbandh
Jharbandh is a town in Bargarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. Jharbandh comes under the padmapur Vidhan Sabha in Odisha state and is under the Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency in India Geography. Jharbandh is located at . It has an average elevation of . It is almost from its district headquarters, Bargarh. It is about from its capital city of Bhubaneshwar. Jharbandh is a block of Padampur subdivision, distance from Jharbandh to Padampur is about . The area around Jharbandh is rain-fed and hence is prone to frequent droughts. The Gandhamardhan hills is about away and forms the borders  between Bargarh and Balangir districts. To date, the beautiful locale has not been spoiled by industrialisation, but the per capita income is very low. Nrusinghanath Temple of Gandhamardhan hills is famous in all over the Odisha for lord Nrusingha. Demographics. India census, Jharbandh had a population of 2200. Jharbandh has a literacy rate of about nearly 61%. Jharbandh Block. Jharbandh is the Panchayat Samiti headquarters consisting of 14 grampanchayats. The grampanchayats are: Politics. Current MLA from Padmapur Assembly Constituency is Pradip Purohit of BJP who won the seat in State elections in 2014. He has won this seat for the  first time. He was succeeded by Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha of BJD, who won the seat in State elections in 2009. He also won this seat earlier for BJD in 2000 and for JD in 1995 and in 1990. Other previous MLAs from this seat were Satya Narayan Sahu of INC who won this seat in 2004, in 1985 for INC and in 1980 representing INC(I).