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Kana observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Kana
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Bhanoli mandal is Golu Devta Temple, Chitai. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kana itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Almora is the one place that burns the entire Ravana clan rather than Ravana alone — around thirty-three effigies, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna among them, built by neighbourhood committees and carried through the town with bands before the burning. Mohallas began adding their own figures from 1975. The Kumaoni Ramlila that runs beforehand is sung rather than spoken.
By population, Kana ranks #33 of 195 villages in Bhanoli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kana is a village of 425 people in 90 households (Census 2011) in Bhanoli tehsil, Almora district, Uttarakhand, the 33rd-largest of 195 villages in Bhanoli tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 1,005 women per 1,000 men. It lies 33 km from the Almora district centre, 33 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 43 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263623, served by Panuwanaula post office; the LGD village code is 53564. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rudraksh Clinic, 9 km away. The village votes in Almora assembly constituency, represented by MLA Manoj Tewari. The population is estimated at 501 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kana →
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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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