By population, Ganai ranks #16 of 99 villages in Joshimath mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ganai is a village of 450 people in 107 households (Census 2011) in Joshimath tehsil, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, the 16th-largest of 99 villages in Joshimath tehsil. Literacy is 81%, 7 points above the tehsil average of 74% and the sex ratio is 875 women per 1,000 men. It lies 78 km from the Chamoli district centre, 49 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 63 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246472, served by Pipalkoti post office; the LGD village code is 40851. The nearest hospital or health centre is Naini, 8 km away. The sarpanch is Shiv Lal , and the village votes in Badrinath assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari. The population is estimated at 531 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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