Gujarat rural women turn traditional handicrafts into source of livelihood
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Dhramni Nes observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
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, Dhramni Nes ranks #54 of 93 villages in Bhanvad mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dhramni Nes is a village of 242 people in 41 households (Census 2011) in Bhanvad taluka, Devbhumi Dwarka district, Gujarat, the 54th-largest of 93 villages in Bhanvad taluka. Literacy is 23%, 36 points below the taluka average of 58% and the sex ratio is 754 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 360510, served by Bhanvad post office; the LGD village code is 514075. The village votes in Jetpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jayesh Radadiya. The population is estimated at 285 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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.
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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