Gehlei Population - Jajapur, Orissa

Gehlei is a medium size village located in Balichandrapur Block of Jajapur district, Orissa with total 89 families residing. The Gehlei village has population of 312 of which 163 are males while 149 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Gehlei village population of children with age 0-6 is 32 which makes up 10.26 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Gehlei village is 914 which is lower than Orissa state average of 979. Child Sex Ratio for the Gehlei as per census is 455, lower than Orissa average of 941.

Gehlei village has higher literacy rate compared to Orissa. In 2011, literacy rate of Gehlei village was 80.00 % compared to 72.87 % of Orissa. In Gehlei Male literacy stands at 92.91 % while female literacy rate was 66.91 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Gehlei village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Gehlei village.

Gehlei Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	89	-	-
Population	312	163	149
Child (0-6)	32	22	10
Schedule Caste	125	70	55
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	80.00 %	92.91 %	66.91 %
Total Workers	115	105	10
Main Worker	41	-	-
Marginal Worker	74	67	7

Caste Factor

In Gehlei village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 40.06 % of total population in Gehlei village. The village Gehlei currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Gehlei village out of total population, 115 were engaged in work activities. 35.65 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 64.35 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 115 workers engaged in Main Work, 8 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 13 were Agricultural labourer.