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Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Gahar is a village in Pauri mandal, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. It has a population of 531 across 139 households, with a literacy rate of 79.1%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
neelam devi
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- LGD code
- 46148
- Pincode
- 246159
- Post office
- Lwali
- Population
- 531
- Households
- 139
- Literacy rate
- 79.1%
- Sex ratio
- 1042 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 245
- Distance to district centre
- 20 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 2 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 77 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 227 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kotdwara · 48 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dr. Nautiyal's Clinic · 5 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Gahar compares
By population, Gahar ranks #27 of 842 villages in Pauri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
79.1%
+9.4% vs mandal average
Gahar79.1%
Pauri mandal69.7%
Pauri Garhwal district72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,042
−144 vs mandal average
Gahar1,042
Pauri mandal1,186
Household size
people per home
3.8
−0.1 vs mandal average
Gahar3.8
Pauri mandal3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gahar at a glance
Gahar is a village of 531 people in 139 households (Census 2011) in Pauri tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 27th-largest of 842 villages in Pauri tehsil. Literacy is 79%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,042 women per 1,000 men. It lies 20 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 5 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 48 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246159, served by Lwali post office; the LGD village code is 46148. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Nautiyal's Clinic, 5 km away. The sarpanch is neelam devi, and the village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 626 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Gahar
- LGD code
- 46148
- Pincode
- 246159
- Post office
- Lwali
- Population (Census 2011)
- 531
- Population (projected 2026)
- 626
- Households
- 139
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1042
- Literacy rate
- 79.1%
- Coordinates
- 30.10677°N, 78.80083°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pauri
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rajkumar Pori
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- neelam devi
- Block / Mandal
- Pauri
Getting there
How to reach Gahar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun77 kmcapital
- Delhi227 km
- Kolkata1268 km
- Mumbai1364 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKotdwara48 km
- Bus stopDevprayag20 km
- Hospital / PHCDr. Nautiyal's Clinic5 km
- ATM / bankPolytechnic SBI ATM13 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum14 km
- CollegeCHAURAS GROUND13 km
- Police stationRudraprayag Police Station26 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
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