Monsoon Is Almost Over For Gujarat, One Third of Taluka Are Facing Drought
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Chapar observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Kalyanpur mandal is Rathore Surapura Dada. No temple of this dedication is on record within Chapar 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, Chapar ranks #42 of 64 villages in Kalyanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chapar is a village of 1,661 people in 279 households (Census 2011) in Kalyanpur taluka, Devbhumi Dwarka district, Gujarat, the 42nd-largest of 64 villages in Kalyanpur taluka. Literacy is 59%, about the same as the taluka average of 58% and the sex ratio is 1,013 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 361306, served by Bhadthar post office; the LGD village code is 513972. The village votes in Khambhalia assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ayar Mulubhai Hardasbhai Bera. The population is estimated at 1,958 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chapar →
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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