Where they go
What these villages come to Bhavnagar for
When a village does not have something, the census records the nearest place that does. Collect those answers for the 22 Dholera villages and Bhavnagar appears 22 times. Here is exactly what for.
Across the nearest-place columns of all 22 villages.
Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Surveyed 2009.
What these villages actually come here for
The Census Village Directory does something quietly useful. When a village does not have a facility, the census records the nearest place that does, by name. Collect those answers across the 22 notified Dholera villages and you get a map of where daily life actually happens.
Bhavnagar is named 22 times across those columns. The table below is the full list: what the villages come for, how many of them, and how far the census put the journey.
Bhavnagar sits outside Ahmedabad district altogether, which is worth noticing. For some of these villages the nearest place with a given facility is in another district, and that has practical consequences for anything that is administered district by district.
What the 22 notified villages are sent to Bhavnagar forCensus of India 2011, Village Directory. The nearest-place columns record the place a village named, and a distance band rather than a measured distance.
| What they come for | Villages | Distance band recorded | Which villages |
|---|---|---|---|
| An engineering college | 8 | 10 km or more for 8 | Ambli, Bavaliyari, Bhangadh, Dholera, Panchi, Sandhida, Sodhi, Zankhi |
| A polytechnic | 8 | 10 km or more for 8 | Ambli, Bavaliyari, Dholera, Mahadevpura, Mundi, Panchi, Sodhi, Zankhi |
| A management institute | 2 | 10 km or more for 2 | Bavaliyari, Sodhi |
| A senior secondary school | 1 | 10 km or more for 1 | Bavaliyari |
| A non-formal training centre | 1 | 10 km or more for 1 | Bavaliyari |
| An arts or science degree college | 1 | 10 km or more for 1 | Sodhi |
| A medical college | 1 | 10 km or more for 1 | Sodhi |
Where this comes from: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, District Census Handbook, Village Directory, Gujarat (state code 24), sheet Village_Data_2400, 396 columns. Census year 2011, amenity reference year 2009.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.
What this table cannot tell you It cannot tell you the institution's name or whether it is still there. The census records the place, never the school or the college inside it, and it recorded it in 2009.
Which villages, and what else this place is to them
10 of the 22 villages name Bhavnagar in at least one column. For some of them it is also the nearest town, the taluka headquarters or the district headquarters, and where that is true the table says so with the distance the census recorded.
The villages that name Bhavnagar, and what else it is to themCensus of India 2011, Village Directory. Distances in kilometres as printed by the census; the bands are the census band codes.
| Village | Things it comes here for | Distance bands recorded | What else this place is to it | People, 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bavaliyari | 5 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 3,010 |
| Sodhi | 5 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 3,365 |
| Ambli | 2 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 2,197 |
| Dholera | 2 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 2,779 |
| Panchi | 2 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 1,197 |
| Zankhi | 2 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 847 |
| Bhangadh | 1 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 2,330 |
| Sandhida | 1 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 985 |
| Mahadevpura | 1 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 1,284 |
| Mundi | 1 | 10 km or more | not a headquarters or nearest town for this village | 1,134 |
| 10 villages | 22 | 19,128 |
Where this comes from: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, District Census Handbook, Village Directory, Gujarat (state code 24), sheet Village_Data_2400, 396 columns. Census year 2011, amenity reference year 2009.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.
What this table cannot tell you It cannot tell you how anyone actually gets here. The census records a name and a band. It records no bus route, no fare and no journey time, and none was added.
The other places the villages name
Ahmedabad · Dhandhuka · Dholera · Barwala · Ranpur · Botad · Bhangadh
Each of those has its own page, built the same way from the same columns. The distance from every village to its nearest town is on a separate page.
One warning that applies to this whole page. The census amenity columns describe 2009, not 2026. Nothing built in the Dholera region after 2009 is in them, and an absence here is not proof of an absence on the ground today. It is proof that the last national survey of these villages did not find one.
Related: Distance to the nearest town · How far children travel for school · All 22 villages at a glance · Every page on this site