Gujarat weather today: IMD warns of heavy rain in Surat, Rajkot as monsoon withdrawal nears
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Amrapar 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, Amrapar ranks #43 of 46 villages in Jetpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Amrapar is a village of 879 people in 173 households (Census 2011) in Jetpur taluka, Rajkot district, Gujarat, the 43rd-largest of 46 villages in Jetpur taluka. Literacy is 77%, 8 points above the taluka average of 69% and the sex ratio is 953 women per 1,000 men. It lies 43 km from the Rajkot district centre, 5 km from Tankara, the nearest town, 14 km from Amarsar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 360370, served by Jetpur post office; the LGD village code is 513435. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sheth Hospital, 5 km away. The sarpanch is shaileshbhai vajubhai butani, and the village votes in Wankaner assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jitendra Kantilal Somani. The population is estimated at 1,036 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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