Khaniya observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
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By population, Khaniya ranks #4 of 307 villages in Ranikhet mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khaniya is a village of 1,324 people in 308 households (Census 2011) in Ranikhet tehsil, Almora district, Uttarakhand, the 4th-largest of 307 villages in Ranikhet tehsil. Literacy is 81%, 8 points above the tehsil average of 73% and the sex ratio is 1,098 women per 1,000 men. It lies 9 km from the Almora district centre, 7 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 43 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263645, served by Ranikhet Kutchery post office; the LGD village code is 52421. The nearest hospital or health centre is Govind Singh Nehra Government Hospital, 1 km away. The village votes in Ranikhet assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pramod Nainwal. The population is estimated at 1,561 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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