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Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
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Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Bhatwara is a village in Ghansali mandal, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand. It has a population of 400 across 87 households with a literacy rate of 53.5%.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
MANISHA
Contact: 73****5219
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- LGD code
- 42935
- Pincode
- 249155
- Post office
- Ghansali
- Population
- 400
- Households
- 87
- Literacy rate
- 53.5%
- Sex ratio
- 1210 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 187
- Distance to district centre
- 24 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 4 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 74 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 250 km
- Nearest railway station
- Rishikesh · 58 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar · 12 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Bhatwara compares
By population, Bhatwara ranks #73 of 193 villages in Ghansali mandal.
Literacy rate
%
53.5%
−7.0% vs mandal average
Bhatwara53.5%
Ghansali mandal60.5%
Tehri Garhwal district65.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,210
−11 vs mandal average
Bhatwara1,210
Ghansali mandal1,221
Household size
people per home
4.6
−0.2 vs mandal average
Bhatwara4.6
Ghansali mandal4.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhatwara at a glance
Bhatwara is a village of 400 people in 87 households (Census 2011) in Ghansali tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 73rd-largest of 193 villages in Ghansali tehsil. Literacy is 54%, 7 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,210 women per 1,000 men. It lies 24 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 36 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 58 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249155, served by Ghansali post office; the LGD village code is 42935. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar, 12 km away. The sarpanch is MANISHA, and the village votes in Ghanshali assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shakti Lal Shah. The population is estimated at 472 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Bhatwara
- LGD code
- 42935
- Pincode
- 249155
- Post office
- Ghansali
- Population (Census 2011)
- 400
- Population (projected 2026)
- 472
- Households
- 87
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1210
- Literacy rate
- 53.5%
- Coordinates
- 30.37895°N, 78.80354°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Tehri Garhwal
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Ghanshali
- Member of Parliament
- Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Shakti Lal Shah
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- MANISHA
- Block / Mandal
- Ghansali
Getting there
How to reach Bhatwara
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun74 kmcapital
- Delhi250 km
- Kolkata1287 km
- Mumbai1391 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationRishikesh58 km
- Bus stopRatura24 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar12 km
- ATM / bankPolytechnic SBI ATM18 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum17 km
- CollegeCommerce Ground CHAURAS17 km
- Police stationRudraprayag Police Station20 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Bhatwara
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
- 🛕MandirTemple3.8 km ↗
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Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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