‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
Reported by Telegraph India.
Paldi observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Paldi
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Savli mandal is Shree Muktajivan Swami Bapa Smruti Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Paldi 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, Paldi ranks #65 of 87 villages in Savli mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Paldi is a village of 749 people in 151 households (Census 2011) in Savli taluka, Vadodara district, Gujarat, the 65th-largest of 87 villages in Savli taluka. Literacy is 66%, 4 points below the taluka average of 70% and the sex ratio is 882 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Vadodara district centre, 4 km from Vejalpur, the nearest town, 3 km from Gheekanta railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 391520, served by Samlaya R S post office; the LGD village code is 519808. The nearest hospital or health centre is Navkar Plastic Surgery Hospital, <1 km away. The sarpanch is VASAVA TARABEN NAGAJIBHAI, and the village votes in Daskroi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Babubhai Patel. The population is estimated at 883 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Subhelav →
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.
7 Temples, 1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
10 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
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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.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Bhaskar English.
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