Gujarat rural women turn traditional handicrafts into source of livelihood
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Pingali observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Talaja mandal is Rishabhdev;Neminath and his Ganadhara Vardatt na Pagla. No temple of this dedication is on record within Pingali 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, Pingali ranks #33 of 113 villages in Talaja mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pingali is a village of 2,898 people in 513 households (Census 2011) in Talaja taluka, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, the 33rd-largest of 113 villages in Talaja taluka. Literacy is 68%, 9 points above the taluka average of 59% and the sex ratio is 913 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 364260, served by Tana post office; the LGD village code is 516564. The sarpanch is kapilkumar p baraiya, and the village votes in Palitana assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bhikhabhai Ravajibhai Baraiya. The population is estimated at 3,417 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pingali →
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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