Gujarat rural women turn traditional handicrafts into source of livelihood
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Kotda observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Dhari mandal is Mahadev Temple -Ghela Somnath. No temple of this dedication is on record within Kotda 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, Kotda ranks #67 of 77 villages in Dhari mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kotda is a village of 359 people in 76 households (Census 2011) in Dhari taluka, Amreli district, Gujarat, the 67th-largest of 77 villages in Dhari taluka. Literacy is 52%, 15 points below the taluka average of 67% and the sex ratio is 1,063 women per 1,000 men. It lies 335 km from the Amreli district centre, 39 km from Khed Brahma railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 365640, served by Dhari post office; the LGD village code is 515733. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sainik Hospital, 15 km away. The village votes in Lathi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Janakbhai Talaviya. The population is estimated at 423 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kotda-Paniyadungari →
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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