Bijar observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Bijar ranks #41 of 77 villages in Ghaat mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bijar is a village of 268 people in 61 households (Census 2011) in Ghaat tehsil, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, the 41st-largest of 77 villages in Ghaat tehsil. Literacy is 71%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,000 women per 1,000 men. It lies 143 km from the Chamoli district centre, 43 km from Dehradun railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246435, served by Ghat post office; the LGD village code is 41099. Mapped within or next to the village: weekly market. The sarpanch is Harish Chandra, and the village votes in Tharali assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bhupal Ram Tamta. The population is estimated at 316 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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