NRI siblings offer ‘US dollar-garland’ to Lord Ganesh in Gujarat village
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Godavari 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, Godavari ranks #19 of 54 villages in Muli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Godavari is a village of 2,370 people in 407 households (Census 2011) in Muli taluka, Surendranagar district, Gujarat, the 19th-largest of 54 villages in Muli taluka. Literacy is 58%, 3 points above the taluka average of 55% and the sex ratio is 928 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 363510, served by Muli post office; the LGD village code is 512260. The sarpanch is WORD, and the village votes in Chotila assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shamji Chauhan. The population is estimated at 2,794 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Godavari →
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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