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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
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- LGD code
- 56703
- Pincode
- 249404
- Post office
- Gurukul Kangri
- Population
- 8,037
- Households
- 1,369
- Literacy rate
- 52.1%
- Sex ratio
- 887 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 2,735
- Distance to district centre
- 56 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 2 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 37 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 230 km
- Nearest railway station
- Harrawala · 34 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Baurari District Hospital · 3 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Sarai compares
By population, Sarai ranks #9 of 114 villages in Hardwar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
52.1%
−5.8% vs mandal average
- Sarai
- 52.1%
- Hardwar mandal
- 57.9%
- Haridwar district
- 62.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
887
−3 vs mandal average
- Sarai
- 887
- Hardwar mandal
- 890
Household size
people per home
5.9
+0.3 vs mandal average
- Sarai
- 5.9
- Hardwar mandal
- 5.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sarai at a glance
Sarai is a village of 8,037 people in 1,369 households (Census 2011) in Hardwar tehsil, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, the 9th-largest of 114 villages in Hardwar tehsil. Literacy is 52%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 58% and the sex ratio is 887 women per 1,000 men. It lies 56 km from the Haridwar district centre, 52 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 34 km from Harrawala railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249404, served by Gurukul Kangri post office; the LGD village code is 56703. The nearest hospital or health centre is Baurari District Hospital, 3 km away. The village votes in Tehri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kishore Upadhyay. The population is estimated at 9,476 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Sarai →
Nearby villages compared
Compare side by side →| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarai · this village | 8,037 | 52% | — |
| Dang Malla · Tehri | 60 | 60% | 1 km N |
| Jaulangi · Tehri | 581 | 70% | 1.1 km N |
| Srikot · Jakholi* | 166 | 65% | 1.1 km SW |
| Srikot · Balganga | 2,088 | 73% | 1.1 km SW |
| Srikot · Karnaprayag | 118 | 75% | 1.1 km SW |
| Dang Talla · Tehri | 77 | 70% | 1.2 km NW |
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Key facts — Sarai
- LGD code
- 56703
- Pincode
- 249404
- Post office
- Gurukul Kangri
- Population (Census 2011)
- 8,037
- Population (projected 2026)
- 9,476
- Households
- 1,369
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 887
- Literacy rate
- 52.1%
- Coordinates
- 30.39890°N, 78.41108°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Tehri Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Tehri
- Member of Parliament
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kishore Upadhyay
- Block / Mandal
- Hardwar
- Nearest railway station
- Bundki (97.2 km)
Getting there
How to reach Sarai
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun37 kmcapital
- Delhi230 km
- Kolkata1317 km
- Mumbai1377 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationHarrawala34 km
- Hospital / PHCBaurari District Hospital3 km
- ATM / bankCoporation Bank ATM30 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil30 km
- CollegeUttaranchal College of Science & Technology29 km
- Police stationDungidhar Police Chowki3 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Sarai
5 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 249404
Same name, different place
Other villages named Sarai
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- SaraiUmbergaon · Valsad, Gujarat2,391 pop
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Villages near Sarai
Other villages in Hardwar mandal
View all 60+ →- Salempur Mahdood
- Bhagtanpur Abidpur Urf Ibrahim
- Jwalapur Mahavidyalaya(Og)
- Sitapur Mazara Jwalapur
- Padartha Urf Dhanpura
- Garh
- Pathari Forest Range
- Bhogpur
- Bahadarpur Jat
- Gurukul Kangdi (Og) (Part)
- Jamalpur Kalan
- Aneki Hetmapur
- Atmalpur Bangla
- Mohammadpur Kunhari
- Shivdas Pur Urf Teliwala
- Kotamurad Nagar
- Nasir Pur Kalan
- Siv Nagar
- Gadowali
- Badshapur Sher Pur Bhatti Pur
- Pherupur Ramkhera
- Bodaheri Mohiuddinpur
- Adarsh,Tehri Nagar
- Dadpur Govindpur
- Chandi Range
- Sanghipur
- Banganga No .2
- Rajpur
- Alipur Ibrahimpur Urf Ikkad
- Aurangabad
- Sohalpur Sikrodha
- Mustafa Bad
- Hazara Grunt
- Shahpur Shitala Khera
- Ruhalki Kishanpur Urf Ikkad
- Puranpur Salhapur
Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-15
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)