‘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 Garudeshwar and the rest of Gujarat.
6 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.
Garudeshwar is a mandal in Narmada district, Gujarat, encompassing 93 revenue villages and 37 gram panchayats. Census 2011 data shows a population of 85,845 with a literacy rate of 63.2% and a sex ratio of 926. The mandal has 43,374 workers, including 7,991 cultivators and 13,848 agricultural labourers, with 100% household coverage under JJM tap water.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Garudeshwar mandal.
கிராமத்தைத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்து மக்கள், பதிவுகள், வேலைகள், சேவைகள் பக்கத்தைத் திறக்கவும்.
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.