Dantu observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Dantu ranks #35 of 40 villages in Dulmi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dantu is a village of 440 people in 70 households (Census 2011) in Dulmi block, Ramgarh district, Jharkhand, the 35th-largest of 40 villages in Dulmi block. Literacy is 62%, 5 points above the block average of 57% and the sex ratio is 864 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 829110, served by Gola (Ramgarh) post office; the LGD village code is 369126. The sarpanch is SANJU CHOUDHARY, and the village votes in Silli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Amit Kumar. The population is estimated at 519 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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