Baiskhet is a small village in Bhikiyasain tehsil of Almora district, Uttarakhand. Administratively, it comes under Sult development block and has its own Baiskhet Gram Panchayat. The village is identified by Census village code 051797.
According to Census 2011 records, 162 people lived in Baiskhet across 44 households. The village had 77 male residents and 85 female residents. There were 13 children in the 0–6 age group.
Baiskhet is one of the many small settlements around Bhikiyasain. Its relatively small population gives it the character of a rural village rather than a large settlement, while its connection with nearby villages and local centres remains important for everyday life.
Baiskhet is part of the rural landscape of the Bhikiyasain area, where villages are spread across a wide hill region. For residents of smaller settlements, nearby villages and local centres often play an important role in education, healthcare, markets and other regular needs.
The 2011 Census recorded 117 workers in Baiskhet. Of these, 63 were classified as main workers and 54 as marginal workers. Among the main workers, 47 were cultivators. This indicates that cultivation was an important part of the village's recorded working life at that time.
These figures describe Baiskhet in 2011, not necessarily the village today. Employment patterns in rural Uttarakhand can change over time because of migration, education, farming conditions and other factors.
Baiskhet falls under Bhikiyasain tehsil of Almora district and comes under Sult development block. The village has its own Baiskhet Gram Panchayat.
The Census village code is 051797. Available village records list 263667 as the PIN code.
One village database places Baiskhet around 30 km from Bhikiyasain and about 128 km from Almora district headquarters. Another source gives different distance information. Because hill-road distances depend heavily on the route, these figures should be treated as approximate until a current map route is checked.
Census-linked records give Baiskhet a geographical area of approximately 66.53 hectares, or about 0.67 square kilometres.
The village is part of a wider group of settlements around Bhikiyasain. Rather than filling the page with broad statements about Himalayan scenery, it would be better to add specific information about Baiskhet's elevation, land use, forests, streams or agricultural areas once those details have been verified.
That keeps the page focused on the actual village.
Agriculture has a visible place in the historical employment data for Baiskhet. Of the 63 main workers recorded in the 2011 Census, 47 were cultivators.
This gives us a useful indication of the role cultivation played in the village at that time.
We should not, however, automatically list crops such as wheat, paddy or mandua unless there is evidence specifically connecting them with Baiskhet. For a stronger village page, current information from residents or agricultural records could tell us much more about what is actually grown, how farming is done and how agriculture has changed.
Baiskhet is part of a wider cluster of villages in Bhikiyasain. Available village records list places including Adagoli, Adborha, Afalkhola, Afaun, Agaspur, Amgadhera, Amkhet, Amoli, Amuroli, Ararirajwar, Ataliya, Babalia, Badaruwa Tila, Bagarh, Bagdawar, Bahnoli and Baina among the villages in the surrounding area.
Once these villages have their own pages on Chalopahad, this section can become useful internal navigation between neighbouring settlements.
Baiskhet is small enough that its statistics give a fairly clear picture of the settlement's scale. The 2011 Census recorded 44 households and 162 residents, while more than a hundred residents were classified as workers.
The agricultural figures are particularly interesting. Almost three-quarters of the recorded main workers were cultivators, showing how closely farming was connected with the village's working life at the time.
But statistics only tell part of the story.
The details that would make Baiskhet truly memorable are the ones that usually do not appear in government tables: the history of the settlement, stories passed down through families, traditional food, local festivals, farming practices, temples, migration and the changes residents have seen over the years.
Those details should come from people who know Baiskhet or from reliable local records. That will give the Chalopahad page a genuine local character instead of making it sound like a standard directory entry.
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Information |
Details |
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Village |
Baiskhet |
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Tehsil |
Bhikiyasain |
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Block |
Sult |
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District |
Almora |
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State |
Uttarakhand |
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Gram Panchayat |
Baiskhet |
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Census Village Code |
051797 |
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Area |
66.53 hectares |
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PIN Code |
263667 |
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