Jakh observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Jakh ranks #1 of 56 villages in Machhor mandal — the largest.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jakh is a village of 1,399 people in 290 households (Census 2011) in Machhor tehsil, Almora district, Uttarakhand, the largest of 56 villages in Machhor tehsil. Literacy is 69%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,073 women per 1,000 men. It lies 32 km from the Almora district centre, 29 km from Basera, the nearest town, 32 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263646, served by Bhatronjkhan post office; the LGD village code is 52238. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Adalikhal, 7 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 1,649 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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