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‘I was engaged at 11’: Gujarat village uses early engagements to keep girls out of sex work
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
pritiben manojbhai
Contact: 82****7740
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- LGD code
- 518594
- Pincode
- 389120
- Post office
- Sant Road
- Population
- 2,496
- Households
- 443
- Literacy rate
- 60.7%
- Sex ratio
- 1000 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,173
Census 2011 · in context
How Gadh compares
By population, Gadh ranks #50 of 114 villages in Godhra mandal.
Literacy rate
%
60.7%
+2.0% vs mandal average
- Gadh
- 60.7%
- Godhra mandal
- 58.7%
- Panch Mahals district
- 60.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,000
+43 vs mandal average
- Gadh
- 1,000
- Godhra mandal
- 957
Household size
people per home
5.6
+0.1 vs mandal average
- Gadh
- 5.6
- Godhra mandal
- 5.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gadh at a glance
Gadh is a village of 2,496 people in 443 households (Census 2011) in Godhra taluka, Panch Mahals district, Gujarat, the 50th-largest of 114 villages in Godhra taluka. Literacy is 61%, 2 points above the taluka average of 59% and the sex ratio is 1,000 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 389120, served by Sant Road post office; the LGD village code is 518594. The sarpanch is pritiben manojbhai, and the village votes in Sanand assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel. The population is estimated at 2,943 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Gadh
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 24
- Power hours (winter)
- 24
- Primary school
- 2
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- No
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- GODHRA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 8
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 8
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 8
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- GADH
- Total area (ha)
- 385.14
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 173
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Gadh
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Gadh
- LGD code
- 518594
- Pincode
- 389120
- Post office
- Sant Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 2,496
- Population (projected 2026)
- 2,943
- Households
- 443
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1000
- Literacy rate
- 60.7%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Gandhinagar
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sanand
- Member of Parliament
- Amit Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- pritiben manojbhai
- Block / Mandal
- Godhra
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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
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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