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- LGD code
- 47005
- Pincode
- 246279
- Post office
- Dungri (Pauri Garhwal)
- Population
- 165
- Households
- 41
- Literacy rate
- 68.5%
- Sex ratio
- 1324 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 31
- Distance to district centre
- 36 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 10 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 125 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 219 km
- Nearest railway station
- Ramnagar · 32 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Adalikhal · 6 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Bhandar compares
By population, Bhandar ranks #64 of 306 villages in Dhoomakot mandal.
Literacy rate
%
68.5%
+0.8% vs mandal average
- Bhandar
- 68.5%
- Dhoomakot mandal
- 67.7%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,324
+108 vs mandal average
- Bhandar
- 1,324
- Dhoomakot mandal
- 1,216
Household size
people per home
4.0
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Bhandar
- 4.0
- Dhoomakot mandal
- 4.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhandar at a glance
Bhandar is a village of 165 people in 41 households (Census 2011) in Dhoomakot tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 64th-largest of 306 villages in Dhoomakot tehsil. Literacy is 69%, about the same as the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,324 women per 1,000 men. It lies 36 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 29 km from Basera, the nearest town, 32 km from Ramnagar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246279, served by Dungri (Pauri Garhwal) post office; the LGD village code is 47005. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Adalikhal, 6 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 195 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Bhandar
- LGD code
- 47005
- Pincode
- 246279
- Post office
- Dungri (Pauri Garhwal)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 165
- Population (projected 2026)
- 195
- Households
- 41
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1324
- Literacy rate
- 68.5%
- Coordinates
- 29.68147°N, 79.10937°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Lansdowne
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Daleep Singh Rawat
- Block / Mandal
- Dhoomakot
Getting there
How to reach Bhandar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun125 kmcapital
- Delhi219 km
- Kolkata1215 km
- Mumbai1337 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationRamnagar32 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Adalikhal6 km
- ATM / bankCanera Bank Rathkhaal Manila11 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil31 km
- CollegeUttarakhand University of Horticulture & Forestry43 km
- Police stationKotwali Ramnagar32 km
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Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)