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Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Saur is a village in Sankari mandal, Uttar Kashi district, Uttarakhand, with a population of 494 and 85 households. The village has a literacy rate of 55.3% and is located at PIN 249128.
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Anjana
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- LGD code
- 40231
- Pincode
- 249128
- Post office
- Mori (Tehri Garhwal)
- Population
- 494
- Households
- 85
- Literacy rate
- 55.3%
- Sex ratio
- 1041 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 118
- Distance to district centre
- 25 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 2 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 81 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 282 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Maneri · 14 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Saur compares
By population, Saur ranks #10 of 23 villages in Sankari mandal.
Literacy rate
%
55.3%
+9.3% vs mandal average
- Saur
- 55.3%
- Sankari mandal
- 46.0%
- Uttar Kashi district
- 65.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,041
+52 vs mandal average
- Saur
- 1,041
- Sankari mandal
- 989
Household size
people per home
5.8
+0.2 vs mandal average
- Saur
- 5.8
- Sankari mandal
- 5.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Saur at a glance
Saur is a village of 494 people in 85 households (Census 2011) in Sankari tehsil, Uttar Kashi district, Uttarakhand, the 10th-largest of 23 villages in Sankari tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 9 points above the tehsil average of 46% and the sex ratio is 1,041 women per 1,000 men. It lies 25 km from the Uttar Kashi district centre (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249128, served by Mori (Tehri Garhwal) post office; the LGD village code is 40231. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Maneri, 14 km away. The sarpanch is Anjana , and the village votes in Gangotri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Suresh Singh Chauhan. The population is estimated at 582 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Saur
- LGD code
- 40231
- Pincode
- 249128
- Post office
- Mori (Tehri Garhwal)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 494
- Population (projected 2026)
- 582
- Households
- 85
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1041
- Literacy rate
- 55.3%
- Coordinates
- 30.83862°N, 78.61817°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Tehri Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gangotri
- Member of Parliament
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Suresh Singh Chauhan
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Anjana
- Block / Mandal
- Sankari
Getting there
How to reach Saur
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun81 kmcapital
- Delhi282 km
- Kolkata1334 km
- Mumbai1430 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Bus stopBus station2 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Maneri14 km
- Police stationCheckpoint53 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Saur
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕Naag TempleTemple3.9 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
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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