Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Kukrera observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Kukrera
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Mori mandal is King Karna's temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kukrera 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.
Kukrera is a village in Mori mandal, Uttar Kashi district, Uttarakhand. With a population of 429 across 67 households, it has a literacy rate of 50.8%.
By population, Kukrera ranks #24 of 76 villages in Mori mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kukrera हे उत्तराखंडच्या उत्तरकाशी जिल्ह्यातील Mori तहसीलमधील 429 लोकसंख्येचे 67 कुटुंबांत (जनगणना 2011) गाव आहे, जे Mori तहसीलमधील 76 गावांत 24वे मोठे आहे. साक्षरता 51% आहे, तहसील सरासरी 56% पेक्षा 6 गुण कमी आणि लिंग गुणोत्तर दर 1,000 पुरुषांमागे 907 स्त्रिया. हे उत्तरकाशी जिल्हा केंद्रापासून 58 किमी, Shimla रेल्वे स्थानकापासून 71 किमी आहे (सरळ रेषेतील अंतर). पिनकोड 249128 आहे, Mori (Tehri Garhwal) पोस्ट ऑफिसद्वारे; एलजीडी गाव कोड 40208 आहे. जवळचे रुग्णालय Government Hospital Tiuni, 4 किमी अंतरावर. सरपंच kli devi आहेत; गाव Purola विधानसभा मतदारसंघात येते, आमदार Durgeshwar Lal. 2026 मध्ये अंदाजे लोकसंख्या 506, 2011 पेक्षा 18% जास्त.
ग्रामपंचायत: Kukreda →
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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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