Ancestral home of '62 war hero in Uttarakhand to be made museum
Reported by The Times of India.
Matiyala observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
The principal temple recorded for Narendra Nagar mandal is Vashishta Guha. No temple of this dedication is on record within Matiyala 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, Matiyala ranks #79 of 98 villages in Narendra Nagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Matiyala is a village of 71 people in 18 households (Census 2011) in Narendra Nagar tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 79th-largest of 98 villages in Narendra Nagar tehsil. Literacy is 56%, 12 points below the tehsil average of 69% and the sex ratio is 1,536 women per 1,000 men. It lies 47 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 8 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 41 km from Kotdwara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249145, served by Chamma post office; the LGD village code is 44494. The nearest hospital or health centre is Naugaonkhal Government Hospital, 4 km away. The sarpanch is Rinki Pundir, and the village votes in Narendranagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Subodh Uniyal. The population is estimated at 84 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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