The Dangs, Gujarat
Recent activity
All 1 in the last 60 days- 14 Sept 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedProposed Nar Par Girna River Link Project
Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.
Other clearances these proposals declare
- Forest land diversion declared
- 1
- Forest land sought for diversion
- Area not stated
- Wildlife board recommendation declared
- 0
- In or near a protected area
- 0
- In an eco-sensitive zone
- 0
These counts are taken from the application forms of the 1 of 1 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.
- Proposals naming this district
- 1
- Category A proposals
- 1
- Families declared displaced
- None declared
- Families declared affected
- None declared
Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.
Fifth Schedule status
Within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area
The Order fixes the area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 31 December 1977. It names this district as a whole.
OrderThe Scheduled Areas (States of Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa) Order, 1977 · C.O. 109, notified 1977-12-31
What the record shows
Half or more of the people counted here in 2011 were Scheduled Tribe: 94.7%, against 8.55% nationally.
Cultivators and agricultural labourers make up 89% of workers here, against 55% nationally, so at least three in four people who work here do so on the land.
This district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Under section 41(3) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), land here can be acquired only with the prior consent of the Gram Sabha, and the requirement holds even when an acquisition is urgent.
1 clearance proposals name this district, where 95% of people are Scheduled Tribe and 89% of workers depend on the land. 1 of those proposals are Category A, the class the central government appraises.
Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.
Who lives there
Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.
- Total population
- 2,28,291
- Households
- 44,699
- Average household size
- 5.11
- 0.26 above India's 4.85India
- Scheduled Tribe share of population
- 94.7%
- 86.1 points above IndiaIndia
- Scheduled Caste share of population
- 0.4%
- 16.2 points below IndiaIndia
- Children aged 0-6
- 17.9%
- 4.3 points above IndiaIndia
- Literacy rate
- 75.2%
- 2.2 points above IndiaIndia
- Sex ratio
- 1,006
- 63.1 above India's 942.6India
What they live on
How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.
- Total workers
- 1,18,257
- Work participation rate
- 51.8%
- 12.0 points above IndiaIndia
- Workers dependent on land
- 88.8%
- 34.3 points above IndiaIndia
- Cultivators
- 54.6%
- 30.0 points above IndiaIndia
- Agricultural labourers
- 34.2%
- 4.3 points above IndiaIndia
- Marginal workers
- 25.6%
- 0.8 points above IndiaIndia
- Household industry workers
- 1.0%
- 2.8 points below IndiaIndia
How households live
Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.
- Rural households owning land
- 57.4%
- 11.3 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month
- 14.6%
- 9.7 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour
- 35.9%
- 15.9 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
- Rural households with a salaried member
- 3.1%
- 5.2 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
When these were filed
Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.
The timeline counts all 1 proposals here, since each one records the date it was first filed.
What kind of projects these are
The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.
- River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 100%
The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.
What is proposed here
These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.
All 1 proposals that name this district, newest first.