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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Saur is a village in Ghansali mandal, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand with a population of 294 in 58 households. It has a literacy rate of 65% and is located at 30.443°N, 78.746°E under PIN code 249155.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Vijay mohan
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- LGD code
- 42876
- Pincode
- 249155
- Post office
- Ghansali
- Population
- 294
- Households
- 58
- Literacy rate
- 65%
- Sex ratio
- 1244 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 210
- Distance to district centre
- 21 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 5 km
- Distance to Dehradun
- 70 km
- Distance to Delhi
- 252 km
- Nearest railway station
- Rishikesh · 58 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar · 20 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Saur compares
By population, Saur ranks #99 of 193 villages in Ghansali mandal.
Literacy rate
%
65.0%
+4.5% vs mandal average
- Saur
- 65.0%
- Ghansali mandal
- 60.5%
- Tehri Garhwal district
- 65.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,244
+23 vs mandal average
- Saur
- 1,244
- Ghansali mandal
- 1,221
Household size
people per home
5.1
+0.3 vs mandal average
- Saur
- 5.1
- Ghansali mandal
- 4.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Saur at a glance
Saur is a village of 294 people in 58 households (Census 2011) in Ghansali tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 99th-largest of 193 villages in Ghansali tehsil. Literacy is 65%, 5 points above the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,244 women per 1,000 men. It lies 21 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 43 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 42876. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar, 20 km away. The sarpanch is Vijay mohan, and the village votes in Ghanshali assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shakti Lal Shah. The population is estimated at 347 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Saur
- LGD code
- 42876
- Pincode
- 249155
- Post office
- Ghansali
- Population (Census 2011)
- 294
- Population (projected 2026)
- 347
- Households
- 58
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1244
- Literacy rate
- 65.0%
- Coordinates
- 30.44337°N, 78.74555°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
- Vijay mohan
- Block / Mandal
- Ghansali
Getting there
How to reach Saur
Distance to cities · straight line
- Dehradun70 kmcapital
- Delhi252 km
- Kolkata1296 km
- Mumbai1395 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationRishikesh58 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Jakhal Bhardar20 km
- ATM / bankPolytechnic SBI ATM25 km
- Petrol pumpioc24 km
- CollegeHNGU BA GROUND BIRLA CAMPUS25 km
- Police stationCheckpoint26 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Saur
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
Same pincode
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- BadiyarGhansali mandal1,439 pop
- DungkhabolyGhansali mandal1,303 pop
- Koti Maya MagaroGhansali mandal1,263 pop
- BaheraGhansali mandal1,238 pop
- Padagali May GhotiwaliGhansali mandal1,202 pop
- VanchuriGhansali mandal1,169 pop
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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
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)