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By population, Chaien ranks #14 of 99 villages in Joshimath mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chaien is a village of 516 people in 118 households (Census 2011) in Joshimath tehsil, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, the 14th-largest of 99 villages in Joshimath tehsil. Literacy is 73%, 1 points below the tehsil average of 74% and the sex ratio is 870 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 246443, served by Joshimath post office; the LGD village code is 40816. The sarpanch is Shankar Lal, and the village votes in Badrinath assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari. The population is estimated at 608 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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