‘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 Mahuva and the rest of Gujarat.
9 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.
Mahuva mandal is located in Surat district, Gujarat, comprising 69 revenue villages under 62 gram panchayats. Census 2011 enumerated 144,906 people in 32,324 households with literacy of 73.1% and sex ratio of 970. The workforce of 69,286 includes 13,148 cultivators and 34,975 agricultural labourers. Notably, JJM tap water coverage reaches 100%, providing universal household access. Key villages are Anaval, Vaheval, and Karcheliya.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Mahuva 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.
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