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By population, Waris Fastan ranks #13 of 21 villages in Diskit mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Waris Fastan is a village of 258 people in 52 households (Census 2011) in Diskit tehsil, Leh Ladakh district, Ladakh, the 13th-largest of 21 villages in Diskit tehsil. Literacy is 32%, 35 points below the tehsil average of 66% and the sex ratio is 856 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 194401, served by Diskit post office; the LGD village code is 916. The population is estimated at 304 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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