By population, Sooni ranks #33 of 109 villages in Dhari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sooni is a village of 606 people in 95 households (Census 2011) in Dhari tehsil, Nainital district, Uttarakhand, the 33rd-largest of 109 villages in Dhari tehsil. Literacy is 64%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 69% and the sex ratio is 924 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Nainital district centre, 2 km from Basera, the nearest town, 49 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 263132, served by Bhowali post office; the LGD village code is 54976. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dwarahat Dispensary, 1 km away. The population is estimated at 714 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Suni →
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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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