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Gorva observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Borsad mandal is Ranchod ji mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Gorva itself.
Nine nights of Garba and Dandiya Raas circling a perforated earthen lamp, the garbo, or an image of Amba — dancers moving anticlockwise, singing and clapping together. Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023, the fifteenth element from India to join it.
The regional form observed across Gujarat. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Gorva ranks #55 of 64 villages in Borsad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gorva গুজরাত-এর আনন্দ জেলার Borsad তালুক-এ 2,301 জনসংখ্যা 539 পরিবারে (২০১১ জনগণনা) বিশিষ্ট একটি গ্রাম, Borsad তালুক-এর 64 গ্রামের মধ্যে 55তম বৃহত্তম। সাক্ষরতা 66%, তালুক গড় 71% থেকে 5 পয়েন্ট কম এবং লিঙ্গ অনুপাত প্রতি ১,০০০ পুরুষে 851 নারী। পিনকোড 388530, Bhadran ডাকঘরের অধীনে; এলজিডি গ্রাম কোড 517118। প্রধান DABHI SHAKUBEN M; গ্রামটি Sojitra বিধানসভা কেন্দ্রে, বিধায়ক Patel Vipulkumar Vinubhai। ২০২৬-এ আনুমানিক জনসংখ্যা 2,713, ২০১১ থেকে 18% বেশি।
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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