‘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 Matar and the rest of Gujarat.
4 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.
Matar mandal in Kheda district, Gujarat contains 49 revenue villages and 46 gram panchayats with a Census 2011 population of 145,447 in 29,094 households. Literacy was 69.1% and the sex ratio 928. The mandal achieved complete JJM tap-water coverage at 100%.
No places ingested for Matar mandal yet — the OSM spatial-join (§5.5) will populate them once it runs.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Matar mandal.
किसी गांव पर क्लिक करके लोग, पोस्ट, नौकरियां और सेवाओं वाला पेज खोलें।
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.