Perpetual shortage: Why water scarcity persists in Gujarat
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Diodarda observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
The principal temple recorded for Patan mandal is Chehar Mata temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Diodarda 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, Diodarda ranks #38 of 67 villages in Patan mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Diodarda is a village of 1,214 people in 253 households (Census 2011) in Patan taluka, Patan district, Gujarat, the 38th-largest of 67 villages in Patan taluka. Literacy is 62%, 5 points below the taluka average of 67% and the sex ratio is 912 women per 1,000 men. It lies 38 km from the Patan district centre, 6 km from Balisana, the nearest town, 11 km from Sankhari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 384255, served by Kungher post office; the LGD village code is 508879. The nearest hospital or health centre is Om Health Clinic, 11 km away. The village votes in Chanasma assembly constituency, represented by MLA Thakor Dineshbhai Ataji. The population is estimated at 1,431 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Diodarda →
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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