Anand

District Map of Anand

Anand (आनंद) is a city and district of Gujarat state in western India. It was carved out of the Kheda district in 1997. Author (Laxman Burdak) visited it from 18.03.1990-26.03.1990.

Variants

Ananda (आनंद) (AS, p.62)

Origin

According to the Data in the Family Tree of the Patels of the seven towns, published in 1925 C.E., the first Patel, named Ananda, came from Anklav in Samvat 1415 and lived at Bharan.

Location

It is bounded by Kheda District to the north, Vadodara District to the east, Ahmedabad District to the west, and the Gulf of Khambhat to the south. Major towns are Bhadran, Khambhat, Tarapur, Petlad and Sojitra.

History

It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Anand and Kheda districts.

Anand is known as the "Milk Capital of India". It became famous for Amul dairy and its milk revolution by the Amul trinity: Tribhuvandas Patel, Verghese Kurien and H. M. Dalaya. This city hosts the Head Office of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), the NDDB of India, the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Vidya Dairy and the Anand Agricultural University. Another famous educational hub is Vallabh Vidhyanagar, an educational suburb of Anand which has institutes like BVM (Birla Vishvkarma Mahavidhyalaya), which is the first engineering college of Gujarat, GCET (G. H. Patel College of Engineering and Technology), ADIT (A.D Patel Institute Of Technology) and MBIT (M B Patel Institute of Technology). Other than these, Vallabh Vidhyanagar is also home to two major universities, those being SPU and CVM. Hence Anand is often referred to as the educational hub of Gujarat.

Ahmedabad Mumbai bullet train station is located in Anand and Anand lies between Ahmedabad and Vadodara on the Western Railways, 101 km from the state capital Gandhinagar. It is a railway Junction and a broad gauge line from here runs to Godhra, covering Dakor, a major Hindu pilgrimage en route. MEMUs and one or two regular passenger trains ply on this route. It also has a branch line to Khambhat. DMUs Diesel Multiple Units ply on this route as it is not electrified yet. The Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway from Ahmedabad to Vadodara also passes through Anand.

आनंद

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर ने लेख किया है ...आनंद (AS, p.62) विष्णु पुराण 2,4,5 के अनुसार प्लाक्ष द्वीप का एक भाग जो इस द्वीप के राजा मेधातिथि के पुत्र आनंद के नाम से प्रसिद्ध है.

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