Dantewada

Dantewada is a town and a nagar palika in the Dantewada district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dantewada District.The town is named after the goddess Danteshwari, the presiding deity of the Danteshwari Temple located in the town, 80 km from the Jagdalpur tehsil. The goddess is worshipped as an incarnation of Shakti and the temple is held to be one of the fifty-two sacred Shakti Peethas.GeographyDantewada is located at. It has an average elevation of 351 meters (1154 feet).Administrative divisionsDantewada Tehsil is divided into thirty-one gram panchayats, each one of which has jurisdiction over one or more villages.DemographicsIndia census, Dantewada had a population of 13,633. Males constituted 53% of the population and females 47%. Dantewada had an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 78% and, female literacy was 61%. In 2001 in Dantewada, 14% of the population was under 6 years of age.Notable Person Amit Singh Dhakad, Author of the Novel: Last Batch of University