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Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Rajendra singh
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- LGD code
- 51393
- Pincode
- 263635
- Post office
- Dangoli
- Population
- 68
- Households
- 13
- Literacy rate
- 79.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1267 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 34
- Distance to district centre
- 4 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 10 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 160 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 274 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kathgodam · 70 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Doctor Dayal Singh Bisht · 2 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Baneshwar compares
By population, Baneshwar ranks #167 of 196 villages in Garud mandal.
Literacy rate
%
79.4%
+9.6% vs mandal average
- Baneshwar
- 79.4%
- Garud mandal
- 69.8%
- Bageshwar district
- 69.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,267
+110 vs mandal average
- Baneshwar
- 1,267
- Garud mandal
- 1,157
Household size
people per home
5.2
+0.7 vs mandal average
- Baneshwar
- 5.2
- Garud mandal
- 4.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baneshwar at a glance
Baneshwar is a village of 68 people in 13 households (Census 2011) in Garud tehsil, Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, the 167th-largest of 196 villages in Garud tehsil. Literacy is 79%, 10 points above the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,267 women per 1,000 men. It lies 4 km from the Bageshwar district centre, 24 km from Sirauli, the nearest town, 70 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263635, served by Dangoli post office; the LGD village code is 51393. The nearest hospital or health centre is Doctor Dayal Singh Bisht, 2 km away. The sarpanch is Rajendra singh, and the village votes in Bageshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandan Ram Dass. The population is estimated at 80 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Baneshwar
- LGD code
- 51393
- Pincode
- 263635
- Post office
- Dangoli
- Population (Census 2011)
- 68
- Population (projected 2026)
- 80
- Households
- 13
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1267
- Literacy rate
- 79.4%
- Coordinates
- 29.89130°N, 79.62387°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Almora
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bageshwar
- Member of Parliament
- Ajay Tamta
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Chandan Ram Dass
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Rajendra singh
- Block / Mandal
- Garud
Getting there
How to reach Baneshwar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun160 kmcapital
- Delhi274 km
- Kolkata1192 km
- Mumbai1382 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKathgodam70 km
- Bus stopbageshwar bus station17 km
- Hospital / PHCDoctor Dayal Singh Bisht2 km
- ATM / bankUttarakhand Gramin Bank1 km
- Petrol pumpHindustan Petroleum26 km
- CollegeGovt Post Graduate College16 km
- Police stationMallital Police Station58 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Baneshwar
6 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Baijnath Temple ComplexTemple1.9 km ↗
- 🛕Baijnath templeTemple1.9 km ↗
- 🛕Three temples of the Indo-Aryan shikhara type known as Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Rakshas Deval Temple and Satya Narayan TempleTemple2.1 km ↗
- 🛕Tallihat group of temples and Katyuri mound, UttarakhandTemple2.1 km ↗
- 🛕Kot Ki Mai TempleTemple3.9 km ↗
- 🛕Pingla Devi TempleTemple5.0 km ↗
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
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