| Voice of Pauri Garhwal
: Chandrashar Juyal
Pauri GarhwalDistrict
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 5399.6 Km2
Population in Pauri Garhwal (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 686527
Male : 326406
Female : 360121
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 18534
In seeing : 8240
In speech : 1476
In hearing : 1930
In movement : 4827
Mental : 2061
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : Does not figure in list of 447 backward
districts
Sex Ratio Rank : 578
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : NA
Literacy Ratio : 82 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Pauri Garhwal District
Pauri
Garhwal, a district of Uttaranchal state encompasses an area of
5440 sq. km and situated between 29°
45’ to 30°15’
Latitude and 78°
24’ to 79°
23’ E Longitude. This district is ringed by the districts of Chamoli,
Rudraprayag & Tehri Garhwal in North, Bijnor & Udhamsingh
Nagar in South, Almora & Nainital in East, Dehradun & Haridwar
in West. The District is administratively divided into six tehsils,
viz., Pauri, Lansdown, Kotdwar, Thalisain, Dhumakot & Srinagar,
and fifteen developmental blocks, viz., Kot, Kaljikhal, Pauri, Pabo,
Thalisain, Bironkhal, Dwarikhal, Dugadda , Jaihrikhal, Ekeshwer,
Rikhnikhal, Yamkeswar, Nainidanda, Pokhra & Khirsu.
Pauri is the headquarter of Pauri
Garhwal district and is located at the height of 1650 m. and has
a population of 20,397. This is fairly located on high altitude
amongst the Deodar forest and on the northern slopes of the ridge,
which provide one of the ice-clad mountain chains.
Besides Alaknanda, Nayyar River
is the major river of the district and is one of the major tributies
of Alaknanda which is called Nayyar after the confluence of eastern
and Western Nayyar at Satpuli. Both the Nayyars originate from the
Dudatoli range and drain their water to the south. The high ranges
in the Nayyar catchments areThailisain
(Dudatoli - Chakisain ridge), Baijro
(Pokhra - Demdeval ridge), Khirsu-Mandakhal (Pauri - Adwani
- Kanskhet ridge), Bironkhal (Lansdowne - Gumkhal - Dwarikhal ridge)
& Rathwadhab (Dugadda - Kandi ridge).
CLIMATE
The region has a sub-temperate to temperate climate, which
remains pleasant throughout the year. The maximum temperature recorded
in the month of june is 45°C
at Kotdwar while in the higher reaches at Dudhatoli it only rises
to 25°C.
Temperature descends to a minimum of 1.3°C
in January, and means monthly temperature for the region ranges
from 25°C
to 30°C.
The hilly terrain with
its densely forested slopes receives adequate rainfall generally
commencing from mid-June and extending till mid-September. Occasional
rainfall is also recorded in winter. Average annual rainfall in
the district is 218 cm., about 90 percent of which is generally
concentrated over the monsoon. Relative humidity varies between
54 and 63 percent. The higher reaches receive some snow in winter
when temperature falls to freezing point.
SOILS
Soils of the region have been formed either through pedogenetic processes or are transported
soils. The pedogenetic soils are the one which have been formed
by long duration of exposure to atmospheric agencies, physical and
chemical weathering and rock slides. Such types of soils are derived
from granite Gneissic, schistose and phyllite rocks. These soils
obtained high percentage of silica from their parent body, while
the soils formed from the limestone are rich in calcium carbonate.
The transported soils are carried and deposited by the streams.
Their parent body and source rocks lie at far away places. Some
of these soils have mixed origin pf glacial and fluvio-glacial origin.
These soils of takus, fans and terraces are silt to clayey loam
and are very fertile. The brown forest soils contain very high percentage
of organic matter. The katil soils are stony, immature and extremely
poor. Soils of Upraon are gravelly ab\nd sandy Loams, they are brown
of Talaon. The Talaon soils are brown in colour with clayey texture.
The stony texture provides higher rate of erosion.
TOPOGRAPHY
The topography of pauri Garhwal is by and large rugged and except
for the narrow strip of Bhabar, the entire region is mountainous.
The highest point of the area is 3116 mtrs at Dudatoli and the lowest
point of the area is 295 mtrs near chilla. The village located at
the hightest level is Dobri, which is 2480 mtrs high. The cross
profiles of the fluvial valleys show convex form with steep valley
sides, interlocking spurs descending towards the main channel, hanging
valleys, water falls and rapids and terraced agricultural fields
on the gentle slopes on the valley sides. The
clustering of villages is confined mainly on the gentle slopes of
the ridges on the fluvial terraces. The forest cover is the maximum
in Thailisain block and the minimun in the Pauri block. Most of
the part of the area is approachable by road from its district headquarter.
Most of these roads are not yet metalled and are prone to land slips,
slides, dusty, except few main roads.
The district of Pauri Garhwal
as part of the Western Himalaya presents a unique set of ecological
characteristics over a complex variety of systems that incorporate
forests, meadows, savannah grasslands, marshes and rivers, as well
as wildlife, geology and several other phyto-geographically distinctive
peculiarities. The occurrence of diverse topographical and climatic
factors has resulted in the remarkable biodiversity of the district
as a result of which flora also correspondingly differs over its
different parts. Forests dominate in the phyto-geography and also
constitute the most valuable natural resource of the district.
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