Baman Chauna is a village in Bhikiyasain tehsil of Almora district, Uttarakhand. The village comes under Bhikiyasain development block and has its own Baman Chauna Gram Panchayat. In the Census records, it is identified by village code 051633.
According to Census 2011-based records, 352 people lived in Baman Chauna across 87 households. The village had 149 male residents and 203 female residents, with 38 children in the 0–6 age group.
With more than three hundred residents, Baman Chauna is somewhat larger than many of the very small villages scattered around the Bhikiyasain area. It still retains the character of a rural settlement, with its administrative and day-to-day links centred around the surrounding villages and Bhikiyasain.
The available Census data gives a useful picture of how people in Baman Chauna were working in 2011. Out of 174 recorded workers, 171 were main workers, while three were classified as marginal workers. A particularly large share of the main workers — 153 people — were recorded as cultivators.
This tells us that cultivation played a major role in the village's recorded economy at that time.
It would not be right, however, to assume that the same employment pattern exists unchanged today. Rural communities can gradually change dramatically over a decade or more as humans move around for education and work, agricultural practices are traded, and new sources of profit grow that can be had.
For a more current picture of Baman Chauna, information from residents about farming, livestock, employment and migration would add much more value.
Baman Chauna is administered through:
The official Census catalogue places Baman Chauna within Bhikiyasain CD Block and identifies it with village code 051633.
The village forum data shows the nearest Bhikiasain sub-district headquarters at a distance of about 27 km, and Almora district headquarters at a distance of about 122 km. Ramnagar is indexed as the nearest statutory town at a distance of approximately 119 km in the same dataset. These are reference distances compared to exact modern usage distances, so the modern map orientation may be higher for the latest website.
Baman Chauna has a reported geographical area of 267.71 hectares, which is roughly 2.68 square kilometres.
Recent government watershed records also contain land information for Baman Chauna. These records include forest land as well as private rainfed agricultural parcels. One recorded private parcel contains entries for cereals, pulses and oilseeds.
These are plot-level records, so they should not be used to claim that the same crops are grown throughout the entire village. They do, however, provide some current evidence of agricultural land use in Baman Chauna.
Agriculture is one of the strongest themes in the available information about Baman Chauna.
The 2011 Census recorded 153 main cultivators, making cultivation the dominant category among the village's main workers.
Recent watershed records add another layer to this picture. They show rainfed agricultural land and plot-level entries for cereals, pulses and oilseeds.
This gives us evidence that agriculture remains relevant to the land around the village, although a current household-level picture would require more recent local information.
Baman Chauna had several government educational facilities recorded in the Census-era data. The records list one government primary school, one middle school, one secondary school and one senior secondary school in or around the village.
For higher education, the same dataset places the nearest degree college around Syalde, while engineering and polytechnic facilities were listed around Dwarahat. A medical college was listed around Haldwani. These facility details are based on the 2011 Census-era dataset, so current institutions and their operating status should be checked before publishing them as present-day information.
Baman Chauna's records give a fairly clear picture of a village where agriculture has been important to everyday life.
In 2011, 153 of the village's 171 main workers were classified as cultivators. Recent government land records also show rainfed agricultural parcels and crop entries for cereals, pulses and oilseeds.
At the same time, Baman Chauna is not simply a collection of agricultural statistics. Its 87 households form a local community with its own Gram Panchayat and links with the wider Bhikiyasain area.
The parts of village life that are not present in Census records — local history, family stories, traditional food, festivals, temples, farming practices and changes brought by migration — would be valuable additions if they can be collected from people who actually know the village.
Baman Chauna sits within the larger cluster of villages recorded under Bhikiyasain tehsil. Nearby village records include settlements such as Adagoli, Adborha, Afalkhola, Afaun, Agaspur, Amgadhera, Amkhet, Amoli, Amuroli, Ararirajwar, Ataliya, Babalia, Badaruwa Tila, Bagarh, Bagdawar, Bahnoli and Baina.
As more of these villages are added to Chalopahad, the nearby-village section can become a useful network of internal links rather than just a list of names.
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Information |
Details |
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Village |
Baman Chauna |
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Tehsil |
Bhikiyasain |
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Block |
Bhikiyasain |
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District |
Almora |
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State |
Uttarakhand |
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Gram Panchayat |
Baman Chauna |
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Census Village Code |
051633 |
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Area |
267.71 hectares |
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Reported PIN Code |
263658 |
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