A Village without doors: Shialia of Kendrapada

Posted Date: 26-Dec-2011	Category: Other Place to Visit	Rating:
Author: Naresh Kumar	Member Level: Gold	Points: 15 (Rs 7)

Shialia village of Kendrapada is very famous as for a village without doors. If somebody searches in Google as ‘village without doors at Orissa’, Google will show this name. However, this was not identified by the Orissa Tourism or spotted in tourist map of Orissa. To know more about this village its religious facts, please read this article and try to make it a tourist mark of Orissa.

History of Shialia village of Kendrapada

Village Name: Shialia
Panchayat Name: Baradia
Block Name: Rajkanika
District: Kendrapada
No. of families: 32 no.s

The actual name of this village was Si-Adia (Dhipa, heigh place); which later conversed/named as 'Sialia'. It was said by the natives of this village as their village was being protected by Goddess Kharakhai since a decade. About 100 years ago, another religious (other than Hindu) person entered and does not believe on the Goddess; he builds a house and fixed a door at the entrance. Then after, his downfall started and went to loss within a short time. His thatched house burnt, rice straws burnt, bullocks were died, and at last he faced with a sever disease until his death. His name can be found in Revenue records as 'Pathan Kiari'.

A Village without doors: Shialia of Kendrapada

People say, Goddess Kharakhai said to them to not built any doors at their houses and do regular rituals/pujas at the temple. The village is a very short length of 1 km. where at the end of the village Maa Kharakhai's temple situates. The temple doesn't have any roof; as its roof is the sky and Maa stays under the open roof of sky with sunlit (khara) so it's named as Maa Kharakhai. Devotees willing to get something good/fortune in their/family's life, donates a horse idol of mud at the feet of the Goddess. Maa Kharakhai saves and protects the villagers from every obstacles and barriers.

Shialia's total voters are 150 no.s and BPL card holders are 30 no.s. Government's most projects such as, Antyodaya, Arnnapurna, Indira Awaas etc. were implemented in the village. However, 'Swajal Dhara' project for drinking water was not implemented till now. Since last 5 year, police not came to this village; as there is no case lodged by the villagers or against any villager.

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