About Handique Village

Handique is a mid sized village in Jonai tehsil, in the district of Dhemaji, Assam. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,146, made up of 588 males and 558 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 949 females per 1000 males. The village covers 59 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 787061, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Handique compares

By the 2011 count Handique is the 19th largest of the 360 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 433 residents. Its 59 hectares work out to about 19 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, much in line with the tehsil average of 957.

Getting to Handique

Handique is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Handique as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. The nearest villages by name are Gali Pathar Singapur, Gali Pathar Singapur Sawtal, Galighat Machkhuwa and Galimechaki. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.