Potan observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Potan ranks #23 of 62 villages in Dugnakuri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Potan is a village of 204 people in 38 households (Census 2011) in Dugnakuri tehsil, Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, the 23rd-largest of 62 villages in Dugnakuri tehsil. Literacy is 67%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 69% and the sex ratio is 1,061 women per 1,000 men. It lies 15 km from the Bageshwar district centre, 41 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 76 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263634, served by Dofar post office; the LGD village code is 50873. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bageshwar Governnment Hospital, 9 km away. The village votes in Bageshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandan Ram Dass. The population is estimated at 241 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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