Kaparada Taluka
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Kaparada is a
taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ...
in
Valsad district Valsad district (previously Bulsar district) is one of the 34 Districts of Gujarat, districts in the West India, Western Indian state of Gujarat. It is bound by Navsari district to the north, Nashik district of Maharashtra state to the east, and ...
,
Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...
,
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, near the border to
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. It is located in the Western Ghats. It is a predominantly
Adivasi The Adivasi (also transliterated as Adibasi) are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent. The term is a recent invention from the 20th century and is now widely used as a self-designation by groups classified as Scheduled Tr ...
tribal The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...
district. The major tribes are
Kokna Kokni, Kokna, Kukna is an Indian Adivasi tribal community found in Sahyadri- Satpura Ranges of Maharashtra (mostly residing in Nandurbar and Dhule districts – Sakri, Navapur talukas) and in Gujarat (mostly residing in Ahwa- Dang, Navsari ...
and
Warli The Warli or ''Varli'' are an indigenous tribe (Adivasi) of western India, living in mountainous as well as coastal areas along the Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas. They have their own animistic beliefs, life, customs and tradi ...
. Kaparada is called Cherrapunji of Gujarat receiving highest rainfall in the state. Kaparada has 60 years old Ashram Shala run by 'Dakshin Gujarat
Adivasi The Adivasi (also transliterated as Adibasi) are heterogeneous tribal groups across the Indian subcontinent. The term is a recent invention from the 20th century and is now widely used as a self-designation by groups classified as Scheduled Tr ...
(Tribal) Ashram Shala ' founded by then Urmilaben P Bhatt who was social worker, a staunch
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follower and served as first lady minister of Government of Gujarat in various government departments. Another organization named National Association for the Blind, Valsad has been working for the challenged children and persons with all kind of disabilities since a decades in this region. Rambhai. K. Patel, who initiated this organisation with a motive to change the lives of these people and who has been carrying out the cause of spreading awareness and literacy from almost 40+ years. He has changed the lives of hundreds of people in this area. He's played a crucial role in spreading awareness by going to even the smallest and in the most interior regions which were earlier forest regions of Kaparada.


Location

Kaparada is located 69.4 km away from the Valsad district headquarters valsad. Kaparada is located 50.0 km away from the Daman and Diu state capital daman.


Education

The literacy rate of Kaprada Taluka is 42.83% out of which 48.94% males are literate and 36.67% females are literate. h1>

city

Kaprada,Nanapondha,motapondha,sutharpada


References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110926053628/http://www.mapsofindia.com/assemblypolls/gujarat.html * http://valsaddp.gujarat.gov.in/valsad/taluka/kaparada/index.htm * https://www.censusindia2011.com/gujarat/valsad/kaprada-population.html Valsad district {{Valsad-geo-stub