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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
NILESHBHAI CHHOTUBHAI CHAUDHARI
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- LGD code
- 524898
- Pincode
- 394640
- Post office
- Valod
- Population
- 1,133
- Households
- 273
- Literacy rate
- 60%
- Sex ratio
- 1023 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 747
- Distance to district centre
- 84 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 84 km
- Distance to Gandhinagar
- 206 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 313 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kevadiya · 23 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Rural Hospital, Molgi · 17 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Dumkhal compares
By population, Dumkhal ranks #29 of 40 villages in Valod mandal.
Literacy rate
%
60.0%
−7.5% vs mandal average
- Dumkhal
- 60.0%
- Valod mandal
- 67.5%
- Tapi district
- 60.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,023
+35 vs mandal average
- Dumkhal
- 1,023
- Valod mandal
- 988
Household size
people per home
4.2
−0.3 vs mandal average
- Dumkhal
- 4.2
- Valod mandal
- 4.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dumkhal at a glance
Dumkhal is a village of 1,133 people in 273 households (Census 2011) in Valod taluka, Tapi district, Gujarat, the 29th-largest of 40 villages in Valod taluka. Literacy is 60%, 8 points below the taluka average, and the sex ratio is 1,023 women per 1,000 men. It lies 84 km from the Tapi district centre, 38 km from Shale, the nearest town, 23 km from Kevadiya railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 394640, served by Valod post office; the LGD village code is 524898. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rural Hospital, Molgi, 17 km away. The sarpanch is NILESHBHAI CHHOTUBHAI CHAUDHARI, and the village votes in Vyara assembly constituency, represented by Mohan Kokani. The population is estimated at 1,336 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dumkhal →
Key facts — Dumkhal
- LGD code
- 524898
- Pincode
- 394640
- Post office
- Valod
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,133
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,336
- Households
- 273
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1023
- Literacy rate
- 60.0%
- Coordinates
- 21.73960°N, 73.84490°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Bardoli
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Vyara
- Member of Parliament
- Parbhubhai Vasava
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Mohan Kokani
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- NILESHBHAI CHHOTUBHAI CHAUDHARI
- Block / Mandal
- Valod
- Nearest PHC
- S B Clinic (61.6 km)
- Nearest railway station
- Dosvada (75.5 km)
Getting there
How to reach Dumkhal
Distance to cities · straight line
- Gandhinagar206 kmcapital
- Mumbai313 km
- Hyderabad686 km
- Delhi836 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKevadiya23 km
- Hospital / PHCRural Hospital, Molgi17 km
- CollegeACS Seniors College, Taloda42 km
- Police stationPolice Station Taloda43 km
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View all 39+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)