Bare facts about Pan village

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LOCATION

Name: Pan: but it has two portions, the one on the east facing slope (on the left when coming from Dwarahat) is Pan/ Waar-Pan and the other is Paar-Pan/ Daingun. Pan is about 500m from the  motorable road while Daingun is about 750m.

State, district, tehsil, block, gram sabha, village: Uttarakhand> Almora> Ranikhet>Chaukhutiya>Pan>Pan

Location: 5 km from Dwarahat on Dwarahat-Chaukhutiya Road (National Highway 109 from Rudrapur to Karnaprayag). 

Nearest roadhead: Pan

Nearest town: Dwarahat> Ranikhet

Pincode: 263653 (Chitreshwar)

POPULATION

Population as on 1.7.2020 (actual): approx 25

Gender and age profile (actual):

CENSUS DATA (census 2011)

The village Pan (part of Pan Gram Sabha) is supposed to have 381 people in 86 households, out of which 239 were SC. By the way, Dhaur is the other village in this Gram Sabha. The area of this Pan is 210.43 ha, out of which 143.7 ha is forest.

SERVICES & ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES

Electrified?: Yes

Streets electrified?: No

Solar energy available? No

Piped drinking water available? Yes

Toilets in each household?:

LPG available?

LPG agency:

Crematorium: Pan (near roadhead)

Nearest post office: Sub-PO Chitreshwar (2km downstream)

Nearest schools: Junior High School, Pan

Nearest hospital:

Nearest doctor:

Patwari's location:

Nearest police station: Dwarahat (but village is not in its jurisdiction;    )

Nearest grocery shop:

Other villages in the Gram Sabha:

Land records digitised?:

ENVIRONMENT

Climate: Temperate; summer noons can be very hot; snowfall occasional (not every year);

Known wild animals troubling villagers:

Nearest perennial river:

AGRICULTURE

Land irrigation status: Land in village slopes is mostly unirrigated; valley land is partly irrigated.

Staple crops cultivated: wheat, rice, ragi. Pulses include gahat, bhat (black soybean), masur, chana, french beans, chana. Also grown are chua (ramdana), jhungar,

Fruits and vegetables cultivated: both sides are full of temperate/ semi-tropical fruit trees that include mango, plum, pear, peach, pomegranate, guava, litchi, jackfruit. Wild fruits include mehal, bedu, timil, hisalu, ghingaru, raspberry,

Vegetables include: greens of all types (mainly chua, ugal, lai, palak, papad), all main veggies of north India. Special ones include: gethi, pinalu & gaderi, karkal (dried and powdered papad leaves), ugal, alsi,

Traditionally, each household used to have at least a small herd of cattle. Rich ones would have buffaloes. Now too, villagers try to maintain at least a cow.

CULTURE

Dishes: All traditional north Indian dishes are cooked. Local dishes include chudkani, badeel, ras, karkal, bhatiya, singal, khajur, palyo, thechua,

Kul devta: Nrisingh

Temples in the village: