‘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 Jhagadia and the rest of Gujarat.
11 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.
Jhagadia mandal is located in Bharuch district, Gujarat, comprising 126 revenue villages and 80 gram panchayats. According to Census 2011, the mandal had a population of 151,127 across 32,661 households, with a literacy rate of 66.3% and sex ratio of 950. Of the 68,158 workers, 9,301 were cultivators and 32,242 were agricultural labourers. The mandal achieved 100% Jal Jeevan Mission tap-water coverage, with major villages including Rajpardi, Sultanpura, and Jhagadia.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Jhagadia mandal.
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