‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Parnala 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, Parnala ranks #7 of 59 villages in Limbdi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Parnala is a village of 3,812 people in 703 households (Census 2011) in Limbdi taluka, Surendranagar district, Gujarat, the 7th-largest of 59 villages in Limbdi taluka. Literacy is 49%, 7 points below the taluka average of 55% and the sex ratio is 906 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 363427, served by Shiyani post office; the LGD village code is 512548. The sarpanch is sangitaben ranjitbhai bavaliya, and the village votes in Dasada assembly constituency, represented by MLA P.K.Parmar. The population is estimated at 4,494 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Parnala →
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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