NRI siblings offer ‘US dollar-garland’ to Lord Ganesh in Gujarat village
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Danadra observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Kapadvanj mandal is Shree Muktajivan Swami Bapa Smruti Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Danadra 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, Danadra ranks #26 of 106 villages in Kapadvanj mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Danadra is a village of 2,743 people in 540 households (Census 2011) in Kapadvanj taluka, Kheda district, Gujarat, the 26th-largest of 106 villages in Kapadvanj taluka. Literacy is 70%, about the same as the taluka average of 71% and the sex ratio is 894 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 387620, served by Kapadwanj post office; the LGD village code is 517231. The sarpanch is Suresh Zala, and the village votes in Daskroi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Babubhai Patel. The population is estimated at 3,234 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Danadra →
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.
Centred on Kapadvanj mandal
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