Merala observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Merala ranks #8 of 33 villages in Pankhu mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Merala is a village of 322 people in 79 households (Census 2011) in Pankhu tehsil, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, the 8th-largest of 33 villages in Pankhu tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 3 points below the tehsil average of 68% and the sex ratio is 1,091 women per 1,000 men. It lies 10 km from the Pithoragarh district centre, 52 km from Sirauli, the nearest town (straight-line distances). The pincode is 262533, served by Pankhu post office; the LGD village code is 49539. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Jalmani, 20 km away. The village votes in Kapkote assembly constituency, represented by MLA Suresh Gariya. The population is estimated at 380 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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