The honest answer
Can I live here
Yes, and thousands of people already do. The useful question is what you would be giving up, so this page answers it item by item, with the date beside every answer and a plain list of who this place currently suits badly.
The nearest are 50 at Dhandhuka, 22 to 50 km away depending on your village.
Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Surveyed 2009.
Which is the biggest limit on everything here.
The questions people actually ask, answered one at a time
Every row below is a question somebody has asked about moving here, with the answer, the date the answer describes and the document it comes from. Nothing in it is an impression and nothing is a forecast.
The questions people actually type, answered from the sources on this siteMixed vintage by design. Every answer carries the date of the record it comes from, and answers from 2009 are not presented as answers about 2026.
| Question | Answer | Date of record | Who published it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is there a doctor within the taluka? | Yes, at three Primary Health Centres. | 2018-08-15 | Health & Family Welfare Dept, Gujarat |
| Is there a hospital with beds in the taluka? | No. The nearest Community Health Centre beds are 50 at Dhandhuka, 30 at Bagodara and 30 at Barwala, all outside Dholera taluka. | 2021-06-30 | National Health Mission, Gujarat |
| Can my child go to school in the village? | A primary school, in 21 of the 22 villages as recorded in 2009. A middle school, in none of them. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| What class range and how many pupils? | No data. UDISE+ holds it and is CAPTCHA-gated, so not one of the 55 school records carries either figure. | no data | UDISE+, Ministry of Education |
| Is there treated tap water? | No, in none of the 22 villages and in none of the 72 extracted. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| Is there electricity? | Yes, domestic supply in all 22, declared at 24 hours a day in both seasons. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| Is there a bus? | Yes, a public bus service in all 22. Frequency is not recorded by any source used here. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| Is there a bank or an ATM? | A commercial bank in 1 of 22, a co-operative bank in 3, an ATM in none. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| Is there a ration shop? | A PDS shop in 15 of the 22 villages. | 2009 | Census of India 2011, Village Directory |
| Is the promised hospital open? | No. It is on the authority's upcoming-projects page in the future tense, with no operator, no capacity and no commissioning date. | retrieved 2026-08-04 | DSIRDA, Upcoming Projects |
Where this comes from: Census of India 2011 Village Directory, Gujarat, amenity reference year 2009.
Gujarat PHC list as on 15-08-2018 and NHM Gujarat CHC list as on 30-06-2021.
DSIRDA Infrastructure, Upcoming Projects, retrieved 2026-08-04.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.
What this table cannot tell you It cannot answer anything about rent, tenancy, employment, safety, mobile signal strength, water quality or how any of this feels to live with. None of that is in any source used here, and this register will not fill it in from impression.
Who this place currently suits badly
This is the part most sites leave out, so here it is in plain words. On the record as it stands today, think hard before moving here if you are any of the following.
- Anyone who needs regular hospital care. There is no Community Health Centre in the taluka and no operating hospital in any government list used here. A Primary Health Centre is an outpatient facility, not a bed.
- Anyone with a child in middle school. Not one of the 22 villages had a middle school in 2009, and the census does not even record where the nearest one is, because that column prints N.A. for every village.
- Anyone choosing a school on its results, class range or size. Not one of the 55 school records carries a class range, an enrolment count or a management type.
- Anyone who will not treat their own water. Treated tap water was recorded in none of the 22 villages and in none of the 72 in the extraction.
- Anyone who needs a bank branch or an ATM within walking distance. One commercial bank in 22 villages, no ATM in any of them.
- Anyone relying on a facility that has been announced. Two records on this site are announced and not operating, and neither carries a date.
- Anyone who needs 2026 data. The household picture on this site is 17 years old. The newest health list is 8 years old. If you need current condition, this register tells you where to look and admits it cannot give it to you.
Who it suits better: a household already inside the farming economy of these villages, with its own transport, whose children are still at primary stage, and who can absorb a 22 to 50 km trip for anything that needs a bed or a bank. That is not a recommendation and it is not advice. It is what the columns say.
The 22 villages are not interchangeable
On the fourteen everyday things the census tracks, Dholera recorded 11, Bhadiyad recorded 10, Otariya recorded 10, Bavaliyari recorded 8 sit at the top, and Bhimtalav recorded 5, Kadipur recorded 5, Khun recorded 5, Mahadevpura recorded 5 sit at the bottom. There is no combined score anywhere on this site. Scoring a place where people already live, on data that is seventeen years old, would be a brochure move. Open a village and read its own row instead.
How old this record is
Every answer above carries its own date in its own column. Nothing on this page is an estimate, a projection or a forecast. If a figure here is wrong, write to corrections@dholera.life with the document that shows it and it will be corrected against that document.
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