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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Lakhwar is a village in Kalsi mandal, Dehradun district, Uttarakhand. It has a population of 386 across 79 households with a literacy rate of 79.3%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SANDEEP CHAUHAN
Contact: 96****2496
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- LGD code
- 44956
- Pincode
- 248158
- Post office
- Kalsi
- Population
- 386
- Households
- 79
- Literacy rate
- 79.3%
- Sex ratio
- 959 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 207
- Distance to district centre
- 28 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 25 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 226 km
- Nearest railway station
- Dehradun · 25 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Nainbagh · 6 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Lakhwar compares
By population, Lakhwar ranks #29 of 170 villages in Kalsi mandal.
Literacy rate
%
79.3%
+20.3% vs mandal average
- Lakhwar
- 79.3%
- Kalsi mandal
- 59.0%
- Dehradun district
- 74.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
959
+54 vs mandal average
- Lakhwar
- 959
- Kalsi mandal
- 905
Household size
people per home
4.9
−2.5 vs mandal average
- Lakhwar
- 4.9
- Kalsi mandal
- 7.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lakhwar at a glance
Lakhwar is a village of 386 people in 79 households (Census 2011) in Kalsi tehsil, Dehradun district, Uttarakhand, the 29th-largest of 170 villages in Kalsi tehsil. Literacy is 79%, 20 points above the tehsil average of 59% and the sex ratio is 959 women per 1,000 men. It lies 28 km from the Dehradun district centre, 25 km from Dehradun railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 248158, served by Kalsi post office; the LGD village code is 44956. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Nainbagh, 6 km away. The sarpanch is SANDEEP CHAUHAN, and the village votes in Chakrata assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pritam Singh. The population is estimated at 455 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Lakhwar
- LGD code
- 44956
- Pincode
- 248158
- Post office
- Kalsi
- Population (Census 2011)
- 386
- Population (projected 2026)
- 455
- Households
- 79
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 959
- Literacy rate
- 79.3%
- Coordinates
- 30.53523°N, 77.96152°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Tehri Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Chakrata
- Member of Parliament
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Pritam Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SANDEEP CHAUHAN
- Block / Mandal
- Kalsi
Getting there
How to reach Lakhwar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun25 kmcapital
- Delhi226 km
- Kolkata1360 km
- Mumbai1373 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDehradun25 km
- Bus stopLibrary Bus Stop13 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Nainbagh6 km
- ATM / bankAxis Bank12 km
- Petrol pumpPetrol Pump15 km
- CollegeLal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration11 km
- Police stationPolice Station Jakhan22 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Lakhwar
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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