By population, Dafa ranks #103 of 240 villages in Tehri mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dafa is a village of 181 people in 36 households (Census 2011) in Tehri tehsil, Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, the 103rd-largest of 240 villages in Tehri tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 12 points below the tehsil average of 67% and the sex ratio is 885 women per 1,000 men. It lies 9 km from the Tehri Garhwal district centre, 49 km from Kulheri, the nearest town, 41 km from Rishikesh railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249001, served by New Tehri Collectrate post office; the LGD village code is 48977. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Madannegi, 3 km away. The sarpanch is mamta devi , and the village votes in Tehri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kishore Upadhyay. The population is estimated at 213 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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