Rayagada

Rayagada is a municipality and the administrative headquarters of Rayagada district in Odisha, India. It lies at about 19°10′N, 83°25′E, at an elevation of 207 metres.

The town had 71,208 residents at the 2011 census, up from 57,732 in 2001, and a literacy rate of 64 per cent, below the national average of 74.4 per cent. According to Wikipedia, King Vishwanath Dev Gajapati founded the city, and it stayed under the Jeypore Maharajahs until 1947. It has a fort built by the king, a row of shrines along the Nagavali river and the Majhighariani Temple, regarded as the town’s guardian deity. Rayagada is part of the Koraput Lok Sabha constituency.

The town features in our report that Bhaskar Rao surrendered at Rayagada after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail in a case over the murder of a tribal leader.

Sources: Wikipedia