By population, Garakot ranks #16 of 224 villages in Devprayag mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Garakot is a village of 572 people in 148 households (Census 2011) in Devprayag tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 16th-largest of 224 villages in Devprayag tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 1 points below the tehsil average of 62% and the sex ratio is 1,325 women per 1,000 men. It lies 33 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 10 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 50 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249161, served by Kirtinagar post office; the LGD village code is 43091. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Nautiyal's Clinic, 3 km away. The sarpanch is vijay singh aswal, and the village votes in Pauri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajkumar Pori. The population is estimated at 674 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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