Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Kyari observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Dhanaulti mandal is Surkhunda mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kyari 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, Kyari ranks #13 of 166 villages in Dhanaulti mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kyari is a village of 781 people in 117 households (Census 2011) in Dhanaulti tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 13th-largest of 166 villages in Dhanaulti tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 14 points below the tehsil average of 65% and the sex ratio is 1,083 women per 1,000 men. It lies 32 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 59 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 25 km from Harrawala railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249180, served by Thatyur post office; the LGD village code is 44204. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Satyon, 9 km away. The village votes in Dhanolti assembly constituency, represented by MLA Pritam Singh Panwar. The population is estimated at 921 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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