Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Badaura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Rudrapur mandal is Swargashram Binsar Mahadev Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Badaura 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, Badaura ranks #38 of 42 villages in Rudrapur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Badaura is a village of 607 people in 93 households (Census 2011) in Rudrapur tehsil, Udam Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand, the 38th-largest of 42 villages in Rudrapur tehsil. Literacy is 59%, 6 points below the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 952 women per 1,000 men. It lies 23 km from the Udam Singh Nagar district centre, 12 km from Basera, the nearest town, 37 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263148, served by Kichha post office; the LGD village code is 55962. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bhatraunj Khan Governnment Hospital, 11 km away. The village votes in Ranikhet assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pramod Nainwal. The population is estimated at 716 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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