{"id":19496,"date":"2025-12-13T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2025\/12\/13\/uttarakhand-whats-behind-a-ghost-town\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:19:00","slug":"uttarakhand-whats-behind-a-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2025\/12\/13\/uttarakhand-whats-behind-a-ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand | What’s behind a ghost town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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me<\/b><\/span><\/span>In Baingwadi, a small village nestled deep in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district, silence begins long before the houses appear. \u201cHere, only empty houses and hanging padlocks welcome you,\u201d says Pratap Singh, 85, a retired sub-inspector of the Indo-Tibetan border police who lives alone. Of his two brothers, one settled in Pauri village and the other in Dehradun. His three daughters and one son all live out of state. \u201cThere is no one left.\u201d He said quietly. \u201cPeople only come back when there is a wedding or ceremony that must be held here.\u201d Village pradhan Manvendra Rawat says that out of the 392 registered voters in the village, 125 live elsewhere. \u201cEven the MGNREGA public works are incomplete. There is no one left to carry them out,\u201d says Rawat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

meIn Baingwadi, a small village nestled deep in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district, silence begins long before the houses appear. \u201cHere, only empty houses and hanging padlocks welcome you,\u201d says Pratap Singh, 85, a retired sub-inspector of the Indo-Tibetan border police who lives alone. Of his two brothers, one settled in Pauri village and the other in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49929,49930,49936,49934,49937,49931,49928,49935,49932,49933],"class_list":["post-19496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ghost-town-uttarakhand","tag-migration-of-pauri-garhwal","tag-relocation-to-bayingwadi-village","tag-reverse-migration-uttarakhand","tag-sarpoli-village-uttarakhand","tag-teri-garhwal-migration-crisis","tag-uttarakhand-migration","tag-uttarakhand-population-decline","tag-uttarakhand-rural-development-and-anti-displacement-commission","tag-vibrant-village-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}