Chaukuna observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Chaukuna ranks #16 of 73 villages in Jainti mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chaukuna is a village of 386 people in 87 households (Census 2011) in Jainti tehsil, Almora district, Uttarakhand, the 16th-largest of 73 villages in Jainti tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 969 women per 1,000 men. It lies 50 km from the Almora district centre, 50 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 40 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263626, served by Jainti post office; the LGD village code is 53519. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Paharpani, 17 km away. The village votes in Someshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rekha Arya. The population is estimated at 455 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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