NRI siblings offer ‘US dollar-garland’ to Lord Ganesh in Gujarat village
Reported by The Indian Express.
Lonkotda observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Babra mandal is Ananteshwar Temple, Anandpur Bhadla. No temple of this dedication is on record within Lonkotda 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, Lonkotda ranks #29 of 56 villages in Babra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lonkotda is a village of 1,733 people in 346 households (Census 2011) in Babra taluka, Amreli district, Gujarat, the 29th-largest of 56 villages in Babra taluka. Literacy is 60%, 1 points below the taluka average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,048 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 360045; the LGD village code is 515458. The sarpanch is anjuben govidndbhai chavda, and the village votes in Jasdan assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kunvarjibhai Mohanbhai Bavaliya. The population is estimated at 2,043 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Long Kotada →
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.
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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