Balso observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Balso
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By population, Balso ranks #6 of 103 villages in Barakot mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Balso is a village of 654 people in 143 households (Census 2011) in Barakot tehsil, Champawat district, Uttarakhand, the 6th-largest of 103 villages in Barakot tehsil. Literacy is 64%, about the same as the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,327 women per 1,000 men. It lies 60 km from the Champawat district centre, 23 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 65 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 262525, served by Abbotmount post office; the LGD village code is 54218. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Kherakhal, 3 km away. The village votes in Rudraprayag assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bharat Singh Chaudhary. The population is estimated at 771 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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