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- LGD code
- 47278
- Pincode
- 246149
- Post office
- B.E.L.
- Population
- 149
- Households
- 60
- Literacy rate
- 72.5%
- Sex ratio
- 1365 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 19
- Distance to district centre
- 34 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 18 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 67 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 195 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kotdwara · 19 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Katghar · 10 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Dikhet compares
By population, Dikhet ranks #75 of 243 villages in Lansdowne mandal.
Literacy rate
%
72.5%
+0.4% vs mandal average
- Dikhet
- 72.5%
- Lansdowne mandal
- 72.1%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,365
+228 vs mandal average
- Dikhet
- 1,365
- Lansdowne mandal
- 1,137
Household size
people per home
2.5
−1.5 vs mandal average
- Dikhet
- 2.5
- Lansdowne mandal
- 4.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dikhet at a glance
Dikhet is a village of 149 people in 60 households (Census 2011) in Lansdowne tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 75th-largest of 243 villages in Lansdowne tehsil. Literacy is 73%, about the same as the tehsil average of 72% and the sex ratio is 1,365 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 13 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 19 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246149, served by B.E.L. post office; the LGD village code is 47278. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Katghar, 10 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 176 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Dikhet
- LGD code
- 47278
- Pincode
- 246149
- Post office
- B.E.L.
- Population (Census 2011)
- 149
- Population (projected 2026)
- 176
- Households
- 60
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1365
- Literacy rate
- 72.5%
- Coordinates
- 29.91767°N, 78.55573°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Lansdowne
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Daleep Singh Rawat
- Block / Mandal
- Lansdowne
Getting there
How to reach Dikhet
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun67 kmcapital
- Delhi195 km
- Kolkata1273 km
- Mumbai1335 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKotdwara19 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Katghar10 km
- ATM / bankindicash A TATA product32 km
- Petrol pumpIoc23 km
- CollegeHNGU BA GROUND BIRLA CAMPUS40 km
- Police stationPolice station32 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Dikhet
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Naagdev garhi TempleTemple3.7 km ↗
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 246149
- ShivpurKotdwara mandal4,889 pop
- SitabpurKotdwara mandal4,636 pop
- Shibbu NagarKotdwara mandal3,949 pop
- BalasaurKotdwara mandal3,825 pop
- PadampurKotdwara mandal3,459 pop
- BalbhadrapurKotdwara mandal2,843 pop
- Jhandi Chaur PurwiKotdwara mandal2,753 pop
- NeenbuchaurKotdwara mandal2,499 pop
- Jhandi Chaur PachhimiKotdwara mandal2,419 pop
Villages near Dikhet
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)