‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Adol observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Adol
Named places of worship on record
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, Adol ranks #29 of 55 villages in Anklesvar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Adol is a village of 1,403 people in 296 households (Census 2011) in Anklesvar taluka, Bharuch district, Gujarat, the 29th-largest of 55 villages in Anklesvar taluka. Literacy is 72%, 1 points above the taluka average of 70% and the sex ratio is 925 women per 1,000 men. It lies 284 km from the Bharuch district centre, 24 km from Udaipur City railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 393010, served by O.N.G.C. Colony post office; the LGD village code is 522359. The nearest hospital or health centre is S.M.B. Clinic and Research Centre, 22 km away. The sarpanch is parmar Dharmishthaben Dharmendrbhai , and the village votes in Borsad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Solanki Ramanbhai Bhikhabhai. The population is estimated at 1,654 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Adol →
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.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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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