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Kadsala observes Navratri (Garba) on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Gujarat.
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, Kadsala ranks #44 of 46 villages in Sutrapada mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kadsala is a village of 612 people in 100 households (Census 2011) in Sutrapada taluka, Gir Somnath district, Gujarat, the 44th-largest of 46 villages in Sutrapada taluka. Literacy is 65%, 4 points above the taluka average of 62% and the sex ratio is 931 women per 1,000 men. It lies 46 km from the Gir Somnath district centre, 20 km from Dhari, the nearest town, 11 km from Bhader railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 362268, served by Prabhas Patan post office; the LGD village code is 515085. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Barvaliya Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is CHAVDA UMABEN ARJANBHAI , and the village votes in Dhari assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kakadiya Jaysukhbhai Vallabhbhai (Kakadiya J.V.). The population is estimated at 722 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kadsala →
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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