Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Kola observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Kola
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Kotdwara mandal is Naagdev garhi Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kola itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Kola ranks #234 of 315 villages in Kotdwara mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kola is a village of 51 people in 13 households (Census 2011) in Kotdwara tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 234th-largest of 315 villages in Kotdwara tehsil. Literacy is 73%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 76% and the sex ratio is 1,684 women per 1,000 men. It lies 27 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 20 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 20 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246124, served by Dadamandi post office; the LGD village code is 48330. The nearest hospital or health centre is The Hans Foundation General Hospital, 8 km away. The village votes in Yamkeshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Renu Bisht. The population is estimated at 60 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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