By population, Banku ranks #21 of 97 villages in Pulla Gumdesh mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Banku is a village of 340 people in 73 households (Census 2011) in Pulla Gumdesh tehsil, Champawat district, Uttarakhand, the 21st-largest of 97 villages in Pulla Gumdesh tehsil. Literacy is 72%, 12 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,166 women per 1,000 men. It lies 33 km from the Champawat district centre, 23 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 54 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 262524, served by Lohaghat post office; the LGD village code is 54364. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bageshwar Governnment Hospital, 15 km away. The village votes in Someshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rekha Arya. The population is estimated at 401 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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