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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
KALAVATIBEN PATEL
Contact: 99****7024
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- LGD code
- 517735
- Pincode
- 388250
- Post office
- Thasra
- Population
- 1,694
- Households
- 340
- Literacy rate
- 75.9%
- Sex ratio
- 906 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 691
- Distance to district centre
- 80 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 83 km
- Distance to Gandhinagar
- 96 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 372 km
- Nearest railway station
- Anklav · 3 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Rajdeep General Hospital · 4 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Ambav compares
By population, Ambav ranks #20 of 28 villages in Galteshwar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
75.9%
+6.7% vs mandal average
- Ambav
- 75.9%
- Galteshwar mandal
- 69.2%
- Kheda district
- 72.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
906
−14 vs mandal average
- Ambav
- 906
- Galteshwar mandal
- 920
Household size
people per home
5.0
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Ambav
- 5.0
- Galteshwar mandal
- 5.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ambav at a glance
Ambav is a village of 1,694 people in 340 households (Census 2011) in Galteshwar taluka, Kheda district, Gujarat, the 20th-largest of 28 villages in Galteshwar taluka. Literacy is 76%, 7 points above the taluka average of 69% and the sex ratio is 906 women per 1,000 men. It lies 80 km from the Kheda district centre, 8 km from Adas, the nearest town, 3 km from Anklav railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 388250, served by Thasra post office; the LGD village code is 517735. The nearest hospital or health centre is Rajdeep General Hospital, 4 km away. The sarpanch is KALAVATIBEN PATEL, and the village votes in Sanand assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel. The population is estimated at 1,997 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Ambav
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- Yes
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 24
- Power hours (winter)
- 24
- Primary school
- 4
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 1
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- Yes
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- Yes
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- THASRA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 5
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 49
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 5
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- AMBAV
- Total area (ha)
- 314.78
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 153
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Ambav
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Key facts — Ambav
- LGD code
- 517735
- Pincode
- 388250
- Post office
- Thasra
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,694
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,997
- Households
- 340
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 906
- Literacy rate
- 75.9%
- Coordinates
- 22.41839°N, 72.98962°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Gandhinagar
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sanand
- Member of Parliament
- Amit Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- KALAVATIBEN PATEL
- Block / Mandal
- Galteshwar
- Nearest bank
- HDFC Bank (85.3 km)
- Nearest railway station
- Sanand (91.4 km)
Getting there
How to reach Ambav
Distance to cities · straight line
- Gandhinagar96 kmcapital
- Mumbai372 km
- Hyderabad802 km
- Delhi808 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationAnklav3 km
- Bus stopBharel Bus Stop16 km
- Hospital / PHCRajdeep General Hospital4 km
- ATM / bankmeet20 km
- Petrol pumpReliance petrol pump14 km
- CollegeANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY - AAU13 km
- Police stationMakarpura Road Police Station27 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-10
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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