‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
Reported by Telegraph India.
Navratri (Garba) falls on Sunday, 11 October 2026 across Harij and the rest of Gujarat.
21 village centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a village to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Harij mandal is located in Patan district, Gujarat. It contains 44 revenue villages and 43 gram panchayats with a Census 2011 population of 80,965 across 15,944 households. The mandal recorded a literacy rate of 55.5% and a sex ratio of 924. Among 38,203 workers, 9,978 are cultivators and 14,140 are agricultural labourers. JJM tap-water coverage achieved 100.0% in the mandal.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Harij mandal.
गावावर क्लिक करून लोक, पोस्ट, नोकऱ्या व सेवांचे पान उघडा.
Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Telegraph India.
Reported by Bhaskar English.