About Dholkatta Village

Dholkatta is a small village in Ramgarh tehsil, in the district of Dumka, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 278, made up of 137 males and 141 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,029 females per 1000 males. The village covers 72 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 814102, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dholkatta compares

By the 2011 count Dholkatta is the 209th largest of the 298 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 494 residents. Its 72 hectares work out to about 3.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1014.

Getting to Dholkatta

Dholkatta 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 Dholkatta as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. The nearest villages by name are Dharampur, Dhawa, Dhawatanr and Dhoba. 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.