Males constitute 51% of the male population and females 49%. Modasa has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, with female literacy at 67%. In Modasa, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. The Modasa Municipality has population of 67,648 of which 34,917 are males while 32,731 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Notable residents Jivaraj Papriwal, a wealthy merchant of Modasa who had thousands of Jain images carved and transported to towns across India. All of them bear an inscription mentioning that they were installed at Modasa in Samvat 1548. Jigar Shah (Born in Modasa), founder of "Sun Edison", who creates billions of green economy of solar power generation. He shows the world that sustainable solar energy is a future of power generation. Ramanlal Soni: A Gujarati writer was also born in Modasa. He is Famous for his Novels and stories for Children. Anees Bazmee : popular Hindi film director S M Osama : Pharmacist who worked on many medicinal researches notably Gout and Transdermal Patch Bhogilal Gandhi : Gujarati Poet who wrote more than 80 books In popular culture Modasa appears in Gujarati short story "Porter na panjama" by Pannalal Patel. Influenza Outbreak of Modasa was shown in Aamir Khan's TV series Satyamev Jayate in season 2 Episode 3. References External links Cities and towns in Aravalli district