Kotar observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
By population, Kotar ranks #15 of 34 villages in Pawkidevi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kotar is a village of 492 people in 73 households (Census 2011) in Pawkidevi tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 15th-largest of 34 villages in Pawkidevi tehsil. Literacy is 61%, about the same as the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 892 women per 1,000 men. It lies 19 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 29 km from Harsoli, the nearest town, 19 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249192, served by Shivanand Nagar post office; the LGD village code is 44507. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Nakot, 13 km away. The sarpanch is RENU PANWAR, and the village votes in Narendranagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Subodh Uniyal. The population is estimated at 580 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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