New Tehri
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| State : | Uttarakhand | ||
| District : | Tehri Garhwal | ||
| Location : | 30 ° 23 ′ N , 78 ° 29 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 1750 m | ||
| Residents : | 24,014 (2011) | ||
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New Tehri , formerly Tehri , is a small town in the Indian state of Uttarakhand .
The city is the capital of the Tehri Garhwal district . New Tehri has the status of a Nagar Palika Parishad . The city is divided into 13 wards . On the cut-off date of the 2011 census, it had a total of 24,014 inhabitants, of whom 13,172 were men and 10,842 women. Hindus form the largest group of the city's population with a share of around 92%, followed by Muslims with around 7%. The literacy rate in 2011 was 90.55%.
history
The old town of Tehri was at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Bhilangna rivers . Tehri was for a time the capital of the princely state of Tehri Garhwal in British India . It bordered the Garhwal region , and its topographical features are similar. It contained the sources of the Ganges and the Yamuna , which are visited by thousands of Hindu pilgrims. In the 18th century, the ships of the East India Company called at what was then the port city.
With the construction of the Tehri Dam , the old town of Tehri was completely destroyed and the population was relocated to the newly built town of New Tehri. The city is known as the site of protests by Sundarlal Bahuguna and his supporters during the Chipko movement against the construction of the dam.