Purara observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
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By population, Purara ranks #12 of 196 villages in Garud mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Purara is a village of 1,016 people in 221 households (Census 2011) in Garud tehsil, Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, the 12th-largest of 196 villages in Garud tehsil. Literacy is 75%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,130 women per 1,000 men. It lies 5 km from the Bageshwar district centre, 20 km from Sirauli, the nearest town, 71 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263641, served by Baijnath (Bageshwar) post office; the LGD village code is 51321. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Bantoli, 2 km away. The village votes in Bageshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chandan Ram Dass. The population is estimated at 1,198 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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