Balota observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Balota ranks #108 of 150 villages in Someshwar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balota is a village of 98 people in 23 households (Census 2011) in Someshwar tehsil, Almora district, Uttarakhand, the 108th-largest of 150 villages in Someshwar tehsil. Literacy is 60%, 8 points below the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,579 women per 1,000 men. It lies 12 km from the Almora district centre, 13 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 58 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263637, served by Someshwar post office; the LGD village code is 53303. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dwarahat Dispensary, 12 km away. The village votes in Someshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rekha Arya. The population is estimated at 116 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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