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Fansa observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
Temples near Fansa
Named places of worship on record
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, Fansa ranks #3 of 43 villages in Umbergaon mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Fansa is a village of 14,459 people in 2,963 households (Census 2011) in Umbergaon taluka, Valsad district, Gujarat, the 3rd-largest of 43 villages in Umbergaon taluka. Literacy is 76%, 8 points above the taluka average of 69% and the sex ratio is 974 women per 1,000 men. It lies 119 km from the Valsad district centre, 20 km from Upalat, the nearest town, 12 km from Karambeli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 396140, served by Phansa post office; the LGD village code is 523636. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Dholar, 7 km away. The village votes in Umbergaon assembly constituency, represented by MLA Patkar Ramanlal Nanubhai. The population is estimated at 17,047 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Karanj →
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.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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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