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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Silaura is a village in Tyuni mandal, Dehradun district, Uttarakhand. It has a population of 316 across 43 households with a literacy rate of 47.8%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
URMILA
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- LGD code
- 44770
- Pincode
- 248001
- Post office
- Araghar
- Population
- 316
- Households
- 43
- Literacy rate
- 47.8%
- Sex ratio
- 1179 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 97
- Distance to district centre
- 64 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 7 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 65 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 258 km
- Nearest railway station
- Dehradun · 65 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital Tiuni · 8 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Silaura compares
By population, Silaura ranks #32 of 57 villages in Tyuni mandal.
Literacy rate
%
47.8%
−10.6% vs mandal average
- Silaura
- 47.8%
- Tyuni mandal
- 58.4%
- Dehradun district
- 74.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,179
+251 vs mandal average
- Silaura
- 1,179
- Tyuni mandal
- 928
Household size
people per home
7.3
+0.9 vs mandal average
- Silaura
- 7.3
- Tyuni mandal
- 6.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Silaura at a glance
Silaura is a village of 316 people in 43 households (Census 2011) in Tyuni tehsil, Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, the 32nd-largest of 57 villages in Tyuni tehsil. Literacy is 48%, 11 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,179 women per 1,000 men. It lies 64 km from the Dehradun district centre, 65 km from Dehradun railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 248001, served by Araghar post office; the LGD village code is 44770. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital Tiuni, 8 km away. The sarpanch is URMILA , and the village votes in Chakrata assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pritam Singh. The population is estimated at 373 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Silaura
- LGD code
- 44770
- Pincode
- 248001
- Post office
- Araghar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 316
- Population (projected 2026)
- 373
- Households
- 43
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1179
- Literacy rate
- 47.8%
- Coordinates
- 30.87089°N, 77.82646°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Tehri Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Chakrata
- Member of Parliament
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Pritam Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- URMILA
- Block / Mandal
- Tyuni
Getting there
How to reach Silaura
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun65 kmcapital
- Delhi258 km
- Kolkata1394 km
- Mumbai1403 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDehradun65 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital Tiuni8 km
- ATM / bankState bank of india21 km
- Petrol pumpLPG Gas Station24 km
- CollegeAtal Bihari Vajpayee Government Institute of Engineering and Technology42 km
- Police stationJubbal Police Station31 km
Same pincode
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- DakpatharVikas Nagar mandal9,897 pop
- Mazri GrantDoiwala mandal9,620 pop
- JauligrantDoiwala mandal9,297 pop
- Shankerpur HakumatpurVikas Nagar mandal8,369 pop
- AthoorwalaDoiwala mandal7,444 pop
Villages near Silaura
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View all 57+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)