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Mithoi 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, Mithoi ranks #32 of 74 villages in Lalpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mithoi is a village of 1,395 people in 259 households (Census 2011) in Lalpur taluka, Jamnagar district, Gujarat, the 32nd-largest of 74 villages in Lalpur taluka. Literacy is 47%, 13 points below the taluka average of 59% and the sex ratio is 935 women per 1,000 men. It lies 91 km from the Jamnagar district centre, 57 km from Bhatiya, the nearest town, 7 km from Modpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 361280, served by Kanalush post office; the LGD village code is 513880. The nearest hospital or health centre is Occupational Health Centre Hospital, 5 km away. The sarpanch is ROSHIYA ALUBEN MAYABHAI, and the village votes in Kalavad assembly constituency, represented by MLA Chavda Meghjibhai Amarabhai. The population is estimated at 1,645 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Mithoi →
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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