‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
Reported by Telegraph India.
Navratri (Garba) falls on Sunday, 11 October 2026 across Mandvi and the rest of Gujarat.
16 village centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a village to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Mandvi is a mandal in Surat district, Gujarat, containing 151 revenue villages and 94 gram panchayats. The Census 2011 population was 177,735 across 38,647 households, with a literacy rate of 62% and sex ratio of 1000. Among the 95,292 workers, 24,891 were cultivators and 38,942 agricultural labourers. Complete JJM tap water coverage (100%) was achieved in the mandal.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Mandvi mandal.
গ্রামে ক্লিক করে মানুষ, পোস্ট, চাকরি ও পরিষেবার পাতা খুলুন।
Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Bhaskar English.