‘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 Petlad and the rest of Gujarat.
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Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Petlad mandal is located in Anand district, Gujarat. It comprises 56 revenue villages and 56 gram panchayats with a 2011 Census population of 227,031 in 47,852 households. The mandal has a notably higher literacy rate of 75.1% and a sex ratio of 918. Among 93,752 workers, 17,188 are cultivators and 42,609 agricultural labourers. JJM tap-water coverage achieved 100%.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Petlad mandal.
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