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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
nisha joshi
Contact: 84****2975
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- LGD code
- 48818
- Pincode
- 246121
- Post office
- Bhrigukhal (A)
- Population
- 273
- Households
- 60
- Literacy rate
- 73.6%
- Sex ratio
- 1220 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 95
- Distance to district centre
- 93 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 121 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 186 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 280 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kathgodam · 54 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Naini · 11 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kasan compares
By population, Kasan ranks #29 of 213 villages in Yamkeshwar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
73.6%
+1.1% vs mandal average
- Kasan
- 73.6%
- Yamkeshwar mandal
- 72.5%
- Pauri Garhwal district
- 72.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,220
+139 vs mandal average
- Kasan
- 1,220
- Yamkeshwar mandal
- 1,081
Household size
people per home
4.6
+0.2 vs mandal average
- Kasan
- 4.6
- Yamkeshwar mandal
- 4.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kasan at a glance
Kasan is a village of 273 people in 60 households (Census 2011) in Yamkeshwar tehsil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 29th-largest of 213 villages in Yamkeshwar tehsil. Literacy is 74%, 1 points above the tehsil average of 73% and the sex ratio is 1,220 women per 1,000 men. It lies 93 km from the Pauri Garhwal district centre, 38 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 54 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 246121, served by Bhrigukhal (A) post office; the LGD village code is 48818. The nearest hospital or health centre is Naini, 11 km away. The sarpanch is nisha joshi, and the village votes in Yamkeshwar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Renu Bisht. The population is estimated at 322 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Kasan
- LGD code
- 48818
- Pincode
- 246121
- Post office
- Bhrigukhal (A)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 273
- Population (projected 2026)
- 322
- Households
- 60
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1220
- Literacy rate
- 73.6%
- Coordinates
- 29.68917°N, 79.82198°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Yamkeshwar
- Member of Parliament
- Anil Baluni
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Renu Bisht
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- nisha joshi
- Block / Mandal
- Yamkeshwar
Getting there
How to reach Kasan
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun186 kmcapital
- Delhi280 km
- Kolkata1163 km
- Mumbai1373 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKathgodam54 km
- Bus stopbageshwar bus station15 km
- Hospital / PHCNaini11 km
- ATM / bankHDFC Bank16 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil19 km
- CollegeGovernment Degree College, Kanda16 km
- Police stationThana Bhimtal46 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Kasan
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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