Padva observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
By population, Padva ranks #12 of 47 villages in Ghogha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Padva is a village of 2,348 people in 397 households (Census 2011) in Ghogha taluka, Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, the 12th-largest of 47 villages in Ghogha taluka. Literacy is 75%, 9 points above the taluka average of 66% and the sex ratio is 934 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 364050, served by Bhandariya post office; the LGD village code is 516310. The sarpanch is lilamsinh keshubha gohil, and the village votes in Jamnagar Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Patel Raghavjibhai Hansrajbhai. The population is estimated at 2,768 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Padva →
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.
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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