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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
RS
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
ramesh saket
Contact: 89****6622
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- LGD code
- 465517
- Pincode
- 486441
- Post office
- Baikunthpur
- Population
- 3,328
- Households
- 698
- Literacy rate
- 57.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1016 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,611
- Distance to district centre
- 8 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Bhopal
- 382 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 567 km
- Nearest railway station
- Hati · 2 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government hospital Jaitwara · 7 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Dewas compares
By population, Dewas ranks #9 of 189 villages in Sirmour mandal.
Literacy rate
%
57.4%
−3.9% vs mandal average
- Dewas
- 57.4%
- Sirmour mandal
- 61.3%
- Rewa district
- 61.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,016
+68 vs mandal average
- Dewas
- 1,016
- Sirmour mandal
- 948
Household size
people per home
4.8
+0.5 vs mandal average
- Dewas
- 4.8
- Sirmour mandal
- 4.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dewas at a glance
Dewas is a village of 3,328 people in 698 households (Census 2011) in Sirmour tehsil, Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, the 9th-largest of 189 villages in Sirmour tehsil. Literacy is 57%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,016 women per 1,000 men. It lies 8 km from the Rewa district centre, 25 km from Gahira, the nearest town, 2 km from Hati railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 486441, served by Baikunthpur post office; the LGD village code is 465517. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government hospital Jaitwara, 7 km away. The sarpanch is ramesh saket, and the village votes in Raigaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pratima Bagri. The population is estimated at 3,924 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Dewas
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 6
- Power hours (winter)
- 6
- Primary school
- 3
- Middle school
- 2
- Secondary school
- 1
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 1
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 1
- Veterinary hospital
- 1
- Post office
- Yes
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- SIRMOUR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 15
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 35
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Total area (ha)
- 632.74
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 113.05
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Dewas
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Dewas
- LGD code
- 465517
- Pincode
- 486441
- Post office
- Baikunthpur
- Population (Census 2011)
- 3,328
- Population (projected 2026)
- 3,924
- Households
- 698
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1016
- Literacy rate
- 57.4%
- Coordinates
- 24.67479°N, 80.83897°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Satna
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Raigaon
- Member of Parliament
- Ganesh Singh
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Pratima Bagri
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- ramesh saket
- Block / Mandal
- Sirmour
- Nearest railway station
- Tikaria (36.3 km)
Getting there
How to reach Dewas
Distance to cities · straight line
- Bhopal382 kmcapital
- Delhi567 km
- Kolkata801 km
- Hyderabad846 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationHati2 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment hospital Jaitwara7 km
- CollegeShri Ram Milan Junior High School , Kalyanpur56 km
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-13
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)