Tigiria
Block
Coordinates20°29′0″N 85°31′0″E
CountryIndia
StateOdisha
DistrictCuttack
NACAthagad
Named forFormer princely state
Unit prefMetric
OfficialOdia, Hindi, English
EthnicityOdia people
Time zoneIST (UTC+5:30)
PIN754030
STD code06723
Registration plateOD
Websiteodisha.gov.in
ClimateAw (Köppen)
Avg. summer temperature45 °C (113 °F)
Avg. winter temperature10 °C (50 °F)

Tigiria is a tehsil (block) of Cuttack district. There are 14 (panchayats) with a total of 50 villages under the Tigiria administrative division.[1]

Tigiria is part of the Athagarh Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency alongside Athagad, Athagarh block and five gram panchayats (Kakhadi, Sankarpur, Badasamantarapur, Mangarajpur and Brahmapur) of the Tangi-Chowdwar block.[2][3]

During the British Raj era, Tigiria was the capital of Tigiria State, one of several princely states of the Eastern States Agency and the most densely populated.[4]

References

  1. ^ Tigiria Block Panchayat List
  2. ^ Assembly Constituencies and their Extent
  3. ^ Seats of Odisha
  4. ^ Tigiria Princely State - "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 539