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- LGD code
- 47469
- Pincode
- 246155
- Post office
- Lansdowne
- Population
- 199
- Households
- 45
- Literacy rate
- 75.4%
- Sex ratio
- 1187 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 64
- Distance to district centre
- 53 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 51 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 51 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 231 km
- Nearest railway station
- Rishikesh · 36 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Nakot · 9 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Palkot compares
By population, Palkot ranks #45 of 243 villages in Lansdowne mandal.
Literacy rate
%
75.4%
+3.3% vs mandal average
- Palkot
- 75.4%
- Lansdowne mandal
- 72.1%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,187
+50 vs mandal average
- Palkot
- 1,187
- Lansdowne mandal
- 1,137
Household size
people per home
4.4
+0.4 vs mandal average
- Palkot
- 4.4
- Lansdowne mandal
- 4.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Palkot at a glance
Palkot is a village of 199 people in 45 households (Census 2011) in Lansdowne tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 45th-largest of 243 villages in Lansdowne tehsil. Literacy is 75%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 72% and the sex ratio is 1,187 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 37 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 36 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246155, served by Lansdowne post office; the LGD village code is 47469. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Nakot, 9 km away. The village votes in Lansdowne assembly constituency, represented by MLA Daleep Singh Rawat. The population is estimated at 235 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Palkot
- LGD code
- 47469
- Pincode
- 246155
- Post office
- Lansdowne
- Population (Census 2011)
- 199
- Population (projected 2026)
- 235
- Households
- 45
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1187
- Literacy rate
- 75.4%
- Coordinates
- 30.32169°N, 78.56336°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Lansdowne
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Daleep Singh Rawat
- Block / Mandal
- Lansdowne
Getting there
How to reach Palkot
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun51 kmcapital
- Delhi231 km
- Kolkata1301 km
- Mumbai1375 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationRishikesh36 km
- Bus stopDevprayag20 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Nakot9 km
- ATM / banksbi16 km
- Petrol pumphp15 km
- CollegeHNGU BA GROUND BIRLA CAMPUS24 km
- Police stationCheckpoint10 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
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