By population, Mahargaon ranks #11 of 84 villages in Puraula mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mahargaon is a village of 735 people in 147 households (Census 2011) in Puraula tehsil, Uttar Kashi district, Uttarakhand, the 11th-largest of 84 villages in Puraula tehsil. Literacy is 61%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 63% and the sex ratio is 1,008 women per 1,000 men. It lies 15 km from the Uttar Kashi district centre, 51 km from Dehradun railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 249185, served by Purola post office; the LGD village code is 40151. The nearest hospital or health centre is GOVERNMENT VETERINARY HOSPITAL, 16 km away. The village votes in Purola assembly constituency, represented by MLA Durgeshwar Lal. The population is estimated at 867 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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