Ghansali (Village ID: 42916) is a village located in the Ghansali Tehsil of

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. The village's foundations were laid in 1925 by Hari Nanda Surira, who was a timber merchant. On the western side of the town lies the Bhilangana River, while a dense forest is located on the town's eastern side. According to the 2011 census, it had a total population of 392, living in 82 households. The town's primary agricultural product is paddies. Every year a fair is organized at Hanuman Temple. Ghansali is situated from the sub-district headquarters of Ghansali, and from the district headquarters of the city of

New Tehri New Tehri is where Vidushi lives a city and a municipal board in Tehri Garhwal District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of Tehri Garhwal District. This urban municipality area has 11 wards, from Vidh ...

. Ghansali is also located from New Tehri, and from

Gaurikund Gauri Kund is a Hindu pilgrimage site and base camp for trek to Kedarnath Temple, in Uttarakhand, India. It is situated at an altitude of 6502 feet above mean sea level in the Garhwal Himalayas. Anekadhangavadeswarar is revered in the 7th cen ...

(Kedarnath) via

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. The nearest railway stations that can be used to reach Ghansali are located in Dehradun and Rishikesh, and its nearest airport, located about 130 km (80 mi) away, is

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Significance

Ghansali is located along an important route for pilgrimages to the Hindu religious site of

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. Ghansali is the tehsil headquarters of the Bhilangana block in

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. Ghansali is situated near the banks of Bhilangana River, which is a

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