Chukam observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Chukam ranks #60 of 146 villages in Ramnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chukam is a village of 444 people in 84 households (Census 2011) in Ramnagar tehsil, Nainital district, Uttarakhand, the 60th-largest of 146 villages in Ramnagar tehsil. Literacy is 59%, 8 points below the tehsil average of 67% and the sex ratio is 1,046 women per 1,000 men. It lies 28 km from the Nainital district centre, 36 km from Basera, the nearest town, 16 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 244715, served by Ramnagar (Nainital) post office; the LGD village code is 55376. The nearest hospital or health centre is Ram Dutt Joshi Hospital Ramnagar, 16 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 523 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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