By population, Pusem ranks #34 of 42 villages in Bastanar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pusem is a village of 286 people in 73 households (Census 2011) in Bastanar tehsil, Bastar district, Chhattisgarh, the 34th-largest of 42 villages in Bastanar tehsil. Literacy is 9%, 10 points below the tehsil average of 18% and the sex ratio is 1,325 women per 1,000 men. It lies 35 km from the Bastar district centre, 9 km from Dabpal railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 494442, served by Tokapal Rajoor post office; the LGD village code is 449254. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dantewada, 23 km away. The sarpanch is Kumalee Poyami, and the village votes in Chitrakot assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vinayak Goyal. The population is estimated at 337 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Birgali →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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