By population, Rukam ranks #54 of 61 villages in Peterwar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rukam is a village of 527 people in 99 households (Census 2011) in Peterwar block, Bokaro district, Jharkhand, the 54th-largest of 61 villages in Peterwar block. Literacy is 40%, 12 points below the block average of 52% and the sex ratio is 959 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 829121, served by Peterbar post office; the LGD village code is 362485. The sarpanch is Rani Kumari Murmu, and the village votes in Tundi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mathura Prasad Mahato. The population is estimated at 621 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chargi →
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.
Centred on Peterwar mandal
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