Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Dhungi observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Dhungi
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Pauri mandal is Kyunkaleshwar. No temple of this dedication is on record within Dhungi itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Dhungi ranks #320 of 842 villages in Pauri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dhungi is a village of 117 people in 36 households (Census 2011) in Pauri tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 320th-largest of 842 villages in Pauri tehsil. Literacy is 62%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,854 women per 1,000 men. It lies 95 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 50 km from Dehradun railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246194, served by G.B. Pant Engg. College post office; the LGD village code is 45588. The nearest hospital or health centre is GOVERNMENT VETERINARY HOSPITAL, 10 km away. The village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 138 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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