Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
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Guretha observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Satpuli mandal is Rasulan Deeba Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Guretha 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, Guretha ranks #106 of 269 villages in Satpuli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Guretha is a village of 99 people in 24 households (Census 2011) in Satpuli tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 106th-largest of 269 villages in Satpuli tehsil. Literacy is 78%, 6 points above the tehsil average of 72% and the sex ratio is 1,152 women per 1,000 men. It lies 13 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 21 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 31 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246155, served by Lansdowne post office; the LGD village code is 47831. The nearest hospital or health centre is Toli Dudharkhal Government Hospital, 1 km away. The village votes in Srinagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 117 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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