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 21.03°N, 82.47°W. It has an average elevation of 265 m. It is almost 132 km from its district headquarters, Bargarh. It is about 502 km from its capital city of Bhubaneshwar. Jharbandh is a block of Padampur subdivision, distance from Jharbandh to Padampur is about 56 km. The area around Jharbandh is rain-fed and hence is prone to frequent droughts. The Gandhamardhan hills is about 32 km 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:
 * 1) Bhandarpuri
 * 2) Dava
 * 3) Chhotanki
 * 4) Kurlupali
 * 5) Bhainsadarha
 * 6) Amthi
 * 7) Bilaspur
 * 8) Chandibhata


 * 1) Gothuguda
 * 2) Jagdalpur
 * 3) Kandadangar
 * 4) Kumir
 * 5) Laudidarha
 * 6) Jharbandh

Politics
Current MLA from Padmapur Assembly Constituency is barsa singh bariha of BJD who won the seat in by-elections in 2023. 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).