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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Simalya is a small village in Pauri mandal, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. With only 52 residents across 21 households, it has a literacy rate of 65.4% and postal code 246148.
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- LGD code
- 45860
- Pincode
- 246148
- Post office
- Kot (Pauri Garhwal)
- Population
- 52
- Households
- 21
- Literacy rate
- 65.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1476 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 35
- Distance to district centre
- 31 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 30 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 69 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 198 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kotdwara · 21 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- The Hans Foundation General Hospital · 10 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Simalya compares
By population, Simalya ranks #520 of 842 villages in Pauri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
65.4%
−4.3% vs mandal average
- Simalya
- 65.4%
- Pauri mandal
- 69.7%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,476
+290 vs mandal average
- Simalya
- 1,476
- Pauri mandal
- 1,186
Household size
people per home
2.5
−1.4 vs mandal average
- Simalya
- 2.5
- Pauri mandal
- 3.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Simalya at a glance
Simalya is a village of 52 people in 21 households (Census 2011) in Pauri tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 520th-largest of 842 villages in Pauri tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 4 points below the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,476 women per 1,000 men. It lies 31 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 16 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 21 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246148, served by Kot (Pauri Garhwal) post office; the LGD village code is 45860. The nearest hospital or health centre is The Hans Foundation General Hospital, 10 km away. The village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 61 in 2026, up 17% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Simalya
- LGD code
- 45860
- Pincode
- 246148
- Post office
- Kot (Pauri Garhwal)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 52
- Population (projected 2026)
- 61
- Households
- 21
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1476
- Literacy rate
- 65.4%
- Coordinates
- 29.92538°N, 78.59001°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Pauri
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rajkumar Pori
- Block / Mandal
- Pauri
Getting there
How to reach Simalya
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun69 kmcapital
- Delhi198 km
- Kolkata1271 km
- Mumbai1337 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKotdwara21 km
- Bus stopDevprayag25 km
- Hospital / PHCThe Hans Foundation General Hospital10 km
- ATM / bankindicash A TATA product34 km
- Petrol pumpIoc22 km
- CollegeHNGU BA GROUND BIRLA CAMPUS38 km
- Police stationPolice station34 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Simalya
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Naagdev garhi TempleTemple1.5 km ↗
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
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