Bahnoli is a small village in Almora District, Uttarakhand, under Bhikiyasain tehsil and block. The village is an administrative part of the Bahnoli Gram Panchayat and falls under Census village code 051760. It lies in the rural environment of the town of Bhikiyasain, with smaller communities linked to the surrounding villages and service centres.
As per the data from the 2011 Census, there were 108 people residing in 22 households in Bahnoli. There were 56 males, 52 females, and eight children aged 0-6 years.
Bahnoli is a comparatively smaller settlement and is among the factors that make it different from the bigger villages/market centres in the Almora region.
A village such as Bahnoli is intricately linked to its rural surroundings. The population of the village is small and there are services and facilities that may not be available within the village, but are available in the nearby settlements.
According to the 2011 Census, there are 74 working residents in Bahnoli. The figures are intended to give a picture of the economic activity in the village at that time, but they should not be regarded as a description of employment as of 2026.
Agriculture is a significant aspect of village life throughout this area, but I could not specify which crops were grown or the farming methods in Bahnoli without first having evidence of their existence. Here, information provided by residents would be more useful for Chalopahad than a description of farming practices in Uttarakhand in general.
The nearest statutory town is Ramnagar at approximately 80 km and Bhikiyasain sub-district headquarters is at approximately 17 km, according to the same source. Almora district headquarters is given as the nearest statutory town at approximately 90 km.
According to one source of data on villages from the Census, the geographical area of Bahnoli is 35.8 hectares or 0.358 sq. km.
A different area figure (22.36 hectares) is provided by another online database. It is for this reason that I would not include the area figure in the main factual summary until the original official record of the village directory is verified.
Records from the village are available, and the information available relates mainly to the period preceding the Census.
On the Chalopahad page, I would not show old schools as current schools unless we have confirmation of their current status. This section would be improved by naming the schools that people attend now and what their location is, and how far they are from Bahnoli.
This would come in handy for families looking for information about the village.
It's the same thing with healthcare. Village data older than the Census are useful for information about medical services available around the time of the Census, but do not necessarily give information about the facilities that operate today, doctors, their working hours, or contact numbers.
Any health information that isn't from the present time should not be included in a useful village page, except after consulting with the current government records or a dependable map listing.
There are several more villages in the larger area of Bhikiyasain, which surrounds Bahnoli. The records show that the nearby villages are Adagoli, Adborha, Afalkhola, Afaun, Agaspur, Amgadhera, Amkhet, Amoli, Amuroli, Ararirajwar, Ataliya, Babalia, Badaruwa Tila, Bagarh, Bagdawar, Baina and Bairsal.
This provides Chalopahad with a handy inbound link pattern. When these villages are linked to their own pages, the Bahnoli page may link to other nearby villages rather than a generic district page.
The smaller settlements are good examples, such as Bahnoli in the rural landscape of Almora.
Compared to larger settlements within the district, the village is very small, with a best 22 families and 108 citizens in the census of 2011. Its unique Gram Panchayat simultaneously provides its administrative identity within Bhikiasain.
The numbers only tell part of the story. If a reader is interested in learning about Bahnoli, he would also want to find out about the process of settlement of the village, its traditional livelihood, the various festivals observed there, and the changes the village has undergone over the years and the food it prepares at home.
This information should be gathered from people who have lived in the village, or from good local records. Developing generic descriptions of life in the Himalayas would make the page longer, but not necessarily better.
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