About Dumam Village

Dumam is a mid sized village in Dantewada tehsil, in the district of Dakshin Bastar Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 523, made up of 228 males and 295 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,294 females per 1000 males. The village covers 589.48 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 494449, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dumam compares

By the 2011 count Dumam is the 40th largest of the 56 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 1,059 residents. Its 589.48 hectares work out to about 0.9 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 1086.

Getting to Dumam

Dumam 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 Dumam as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Dumam from other places

Dumam lies about 21 km from Dakshin Bastar Dantewada, and the nearest railway station is Dabpal, about 3.0 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Dumam

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Dantewada tehsil.

• Dabpal 2.0 km
• Kawadgaon 2.8 km
• Jaram 3.3 km
• Mendoli 4.3 km
• Pondum 4.8 km
• Muskel 5.9 km

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.