View of Satya Narayan Temple before Rain.Durga Puja At Aska Busstand occurred By Aska Private Bus Association.Beautiful Image of Aska- Bhanjanagar National Highway at Jhadadei Square.Image of Aska-Bhanjanagar National Highway in Evening at Jhadadei Square.
[2]Asika or Aska (ଆସିକା)/(ଆସ୍କା) is a town and a Notified Area Council in Ganjam district in the state of Odisha, India. Fondly known as the Sugar city of Odisha. Asika is a major commercial and transportation hub of Ganjam .There are 2 National Highway's are pass across the town(157 & 59). It's famous for Maa Khambeswari Temple and Maa Khambeswari's Baishakhi Yatra which is celebrated every year.
Asika Sugar Factory is the first sugar factory in Asia, established in 1824. The plant is located in Asika town. Asika Cooperative Sugar Industries is a large scale industry employing more than 35000 families.
It is one of the oldest in India, built by Minchin Saheb in British time. Along with the factory at Nellikuppam near Cuddalore, it was managed by Parry and Co. Due to this factory Asika Town is known as Sugar City.
The jaggery mill was started in 1848 as Asika Sugar Works and Distillery Ltd. by Parry and Co. Madras. It met with huge losses for lack of supervision and other transport bottlenecks. Thereafter, Fredrick Josheph Vivian Minchin, the Book Keeper of Biny & Co. purchased the factory and with the new Sugar Technology obtained from Germany designed and rebuilt the factory in 1856.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India,[4][needs update] Asika had a population of 21,428 (fourth largest city in terms of population Ganjam dist after Brahmapur, Chatrapur and Bhanjanagar). Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Asika has an average literacy rate of 85.76%, higher than the national average of 72.87%; with 56% of the males and 44% of females literate. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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Temples
Satyanarayan Temple, Binayak Bazar, Aska
Maa Fulakasuni (Odia sahi)
Rameshwar Temple, KS Patna
Maa Khambeswari Goddess
Jagannath Temple (Sunambo Sahi)
Panchamuki Hanuman Mandir
Jaganatha Temple (Nuagam)
Kali Mandir (Nuagam)
Bhagabat Mandir (Nuagam)
Radha Krushna Mandir (Nuagam)
Ram Mandir (Nuagam)
Pudageswar
Subarneswar
Nilakantheswar
Satyanarayan
Karanjei Goddess
Balunkeswar
Tirupati Balaji
Ram Mandir
Hanuman Mandir
Maa Kali
Maa Kalimukhi
Narshinha
Maa Thakurani near Gondopuli
Jaganath temple main road Kalasanadh Pur
Hunuman temple main road Kalasanadh Pur
Radha Krishna Temple (Banibihar, Aska)
Sai Mandira
Maa Kankana Devi temple, (Bhetanai)
Ellama Potturaj (Damodarpalli)
Maa Rajjamma Kanekamma (Dhobapalli)
Hanuman Temple (Kotibadi)
Gopinath Temple (Raipalli)
Radhakrishna Mandir
(Chadhiapalli)
Climate and regional setting
Maximum summer temperature is 34 °C; minimum winter temperature is 23 °C. The mean daily temperature varies from 33 °C to 38 °C. May is the hottest month; December is the coldest. The average annual rainfall is 1250 mm and the region receives monsoon and torrential rainfall from July to October.
Asika is connected with National Highway 59 (India) (Khariar – Brahmapur) and National Highway 157 (India) (Purunakatak – Asika) which connect Asika to other cities and towns of Odisha.It is the. Middle of Ganjam District. So, major state highways are passing across this town.
Aska (Vidhan Sabha constituency) includes Asika N.A.C, Asika block and 12 GPs (Subalaya, Kaniari, Barida, Paikajamuna, Sunapalli, Sialia, Nandiagada, Borasingi, Ambapua, Baliasara, Bolasara and Sunarijhola) of Kabisuryanagar block. The current MLA from Asika Assembly Constituency is Smt. Manjula Swain of BJD. Previous MLAs from this seat was Sri. Debaraj Mohanty from 2004 to 2014 of BJD, Usharani Panda of the Indian National Congress in 1995, Duti Krushna Panda of CPI in 1990, Raghaba Parida who won representing INC in 1985 and as a candidate of the Indian National Congress in 1980, and Harihar Swain of JNP in 1977.[6]
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