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	Gandhinagar district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gandhinagar District is an administrative division of Gujarat, India, whose headquarters are at Gandhinagar, the state capital.
		Gandhinagar district is bounded by the districts of Sabarkantha to the northeast, Kheda to the southeast, Ahmedabad to the southwest, and Mehsana to the northwest.
		Connected to Ahmedabad by the Sartej-Gandhinagar highway, and with Vadodara with the Ahmedabad-Vadodara highway, these three cities form the top population centers and commercial heart of Gujarat and western India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gandhinagar_District (154 words)

	Ahmedabad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahmedabad is the administrative center of Ahmedabad district, and was the capital of the state of Gujarat from 1960 to 1970, after which Gandhinagar became the capital city.
		Ahmedabad was founded in the 15th century by Sultan Ahmed Shah, and also served as the capital of the Sultanate of Gujarat.
		According to the 2001 census, 84.62% of the population in Ahmedabad is Hindu, 2.92% Jain, 11.4% Muslim and 0.72% Christian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmedabad (4046 words)

	News and Events
		AHMEDABAD: About 95 per cent students appeared for the secondary and higher secondary board examinations that began in violence-ravaged Gujarat on Thursday amid tight security but a significant section of Muslims boycotted it.
		The students and parents were still in trauma of insecurity after a month-long violence in the city and other places of the state, he said about the boycott of the exam, being projected by the Modi government as a sign of return of normalcy in the state.
		In Baroda city and rural district, 21,798 students appeared for the examinations which amounted to 98.04 per cent, he said adding that 435 students were absent in exams.
	www.mustformums.com /newsandevents/fullstory.php3?newsid=1019190757 (576 words)

	The Hindu : Ahmedabad yet to become mega city
		The Ahmedabad Urban Agglomeration area has qualified to be declared a metro city registering a population of 45.19 lakhs in the 2001 census but has fallen behind Bangalore and Hyderabad cities in the race.
		Jayant Parimal, the Director of Census Operations in Gujarat, though Ahmedabad urban agglomeration, which included the areas covered by the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority, recorded a growth of 36.44 per cent over the 1991 census, its total population was behind the 56 lakhs recorded in Bangalore and the 53 lakhs in Hyderabad.
		The density of population at 258 per one square kilometre area calculated on the basis of the estimated population of the earthquake-affected areas was placed at a comfortable situation.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/04/07/stories/0207000q.htm (488 words)

	UNICEF India - Water, environment and sanitation
		Ahmedabad, 15 February 2006 - âSanitation is the first step to Godlinessâ, said Murari Bapu in his discourse to the people of Gujarat in a live telecast on 27 January 2006.
		District officials, Programme Managers and Panchayat representatives listened to several speakers, including Mr Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr Navjot Singh Sidhu, a well known cricketer and Member of Parliament and the Union Minister for Rural development, Mr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.
		The objective of the state level conference was to highlight the importance of sanitation at both household and village level and call upon officials as well as non officials to contribute to the success of the TSC by ensuring 100% access to sanitation at village/household level.
	www.unicef.org /india/wes_1208.htm (668 words)

	Ahmedabad travel guide - Wikitravel
		Ahmedabad was a cradle of the non-violent movement for India's independence, being host to the Sabarmati ashram of Mahatma Gandhi.
		Ahmedabad is connected with Bombay (aka Mumbai) (500 km) and New Delhi with trains several times a day.
		It lies on the tranquil stretch of the Sabarmati river and was referred to as the Satyagraha Ashram during the lifetime of the Mahatma.
	wikitravel.org /en/Ahmedabad (4333 words)

	June 18, 2001 - June 18, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		Ahmedabad has already been witness to a series of building collapses in the aftermath of the quake, the latest on Friday when a section of a municipal school in the Maninagar area collapsed.
		AHMEDABAD, June 17: Students are not being allowed to sit in at least 23 municipal primary schools in the city, damaged in the January 26 earthquake, Mayor Himatsinh Patel said on Sunday.
		AHMEDABAD, June 17: At least six people were killed and two injured when the jeep they were travelling in collided head-on with a state transport bus on the Ahmedabad-Mehdabad highway near Kankamba village in Ahmedabad rural on Sunday, the police said.
	www.gujaratplus.com /news/archive/arc494.html (2070 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Ahmedabad, March 25: Milkman of India Verghese Kurien no longer around, Amul may soon have to give lesser local brands right of way in the Ahmedabad milk mart.
		But Ramsinh Parmar, chairman of the Kheda District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union, said: “It will not be immediately possible to withdraw Amul from the Ahmedabad market as the Ahmedabad union cannot meet the milk requirement.
		The Ahmedabad union chairman said district cooperatives like Mehsana and Surat sell their milk first in the local market under their brand names.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060326/asp/nation/story_6016076.asp (397 words)

	Press Realeses 21st March 2001
		Dr. D' Souza said in a packed Press Conference at Ahmedabad today that the political leadership of the day cannot obfuscate its role in this corruption, nor can government shirk its responsibility in bringing to book all those guilty, however high they may be.
		On the 27th the District unit plunged into action by starting food packets in the surrounding and remote areas of Jamnagar District.
		District President of aicc coordinated Distribution of 11,000 relief kits comprising of Tarpaulins, Blankets, 9 utensils and Sarees and Dhothis in the villages of Jhodia Taluka with other agencies
	www.aiccindia.org /pressrelease_21_mar_2001.html (997 words)

	rediff.com: Vajpayee summons Modi to Delhi
		A 70-year-old woman was burnt alive in her house in Viramgam town of Ahmedabad rural district early on Tuesday, police said.
		In Ahmedabad city, a 19-year-old boy was killed and two others were injured when police fired several rounds to disperse a mob indulging in looting and arson in Astodia area under the Khadia police station.
		In Visnagar town of Mehsana district, a boy belonging to a minority community was stabbed in Mayabazar locality prompting imposition of curfew from 7 pm.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/mar/26train3.htm (164 words)

	Ahmedabad Travel, Ahmedabad Hotels, Ahmedabad Travel Agent, Ahmedabad Tours, Ahmedabad Travel Guide, Ahmedabad Tour ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Location : Aptly located in the middle of this huge western state of India, the district of Ahemedabad is surrounded by the districts of Anand, Bhavanagar, Gandhinagar, Surendranagar, Mehasana and Kheda district.
		About Ahmedabad : Quite often the prominence given to this city is mistaken for the city being the state capital.
		Although it was the capital of the Gujarat state for a short span of time after the reunion of the Gujarat state in 1960, the actual capital, Gandhinagar, is just at stone's throw distance form Ahemedabad.
	www.t2india.com /place-info.php?place=81-Ahmedabad (523 words)

	Bandh affects life in Gujarat- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		AHMEDABAD: The call to boycott the bandh by the clerics and leaders of the minority community went virtually unheeded in areas of Ahmedabad and south Gujarat.
		Stray incidents of violence were reported from Bharuch district after a group of boys robbed a petrol pump of Rs 20,000.
		In Junagadh district, Prabhas Patan area was total, Nadiad and Kheda towns along with Khambhat and Mahudha areas of this district too responded to the call.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-25207473,prtpage-1.cms (398 words)

	Unnati .....
		A training of trainers for the 38 centre facilitators, from 25 districts, on building an understanding on the theme of panchayati raj was conducted during February 21-22, 2006.
		During February 27-28, 2006, 24 citizen leaders from Dholka, Dascroi and Viramgam blocks of Ahmedabad district were oriented on leadership skills.
		Orientation meetings were also organised with the chief and district town planners, the CEOs and citizen leaders on the themes of Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 74th CAA and the urban development and poverty alleviation schemes.
	www.unnati.org /lastthree-gov.html (717 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » India: Gujarat floods situation report, 30 Jun 2005, 9:00 p.m.
		The affected districts are Navsari, Valsad, Surat and Dangs, Bharuch, Surendranagar, Ahmedabad, Anand and Vadodara.
		Transportation in the affected districts is reported to have slowed down due to closing 124 state managed road routes, but 12 state road routes are remained opened for movement.
		The irrigation department has issued high alter for 31 dams in the affected districts and 8 dams on are on alert while 10 dams are on warning level.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6DUPE6?OpenDocument (609 words)

	May 8, 2001 - May 9, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		The two victims had informed the Navasari police and the case was later transferred to Surat district police, as the offence was committed in its jurisdiction, Rao informed.
		Acting on the informations given by the driver and the cleaner, the local police team was sent to Ahmedabad and there they located the godown and the truck, which was by then modified to conceal its original identity.
		Three persons Harshad Prajapati, Vikram and Kundan were nabbed from Ahmedabad who had already sold parts of the goods to the tune of Rs 5 lakh to one Kirtibhai in Ahmedabad with the help of one middleman Ghanshyam, a known philanthropist, Rao informed.
	www.gujaratplus.com /00-01archive/arc572.html (1839 words)

	SEWA - Campaigns - SEWA MEMBERBASED organisation of poor working women.
		In Surendrangar district, 80 rainwater harvesting tanks and in Banaskantha district 60 such tanks have been constructed.
		In Ahmedabad district, after continuous dialogue with the local authorities, piped water has been reached to villages like Roopgadh.
		Kunvarben of Surendranagar district and Shantaben of Sabarkantha district participated in an international conference on water and sanitation, vision 21.
	www.sewa.org /campaigns/water.asp (476 words)

	Kutch tokenism
		The Kutch region might have suffered the most, yet manufacturing units in, say, Ahmedabad too might have a claim on the largesse in proportion to the damage suffered.
		In fact, some of the units there may even be less able to withstand the ruinous financial consequences of the earthquake than their counterparts in Kutch.
		This is reflected in a credit-deposit ratio of around 15 per cent for Kutch district in contrast to 90 per cent for Ahmedabad, a district with a highly evolved industrial economy.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/06/06/stories/040621ed.htm (584 words)

	News and Events
		AHMEDABAD: Though Swastik Shishuvihar Higher Secondary bagged maximum number of ranks in Ahmedabad district as well as in the state merit list, it was a student of Diwan Ballubhai Madhyamik School of Ahmedabad, who claimed the topmost rank in Ahmedabad scoring 93.38 per cent.
		The top scorer in the district was also from this school who secured 91.23 per cent.
		In Sabarkantha district, students of KN Shah High School of riot-torn Modasa town bagged the maximum number of positions.
	www.mustformums.com /newsandevents/fullstory.php3?newsid=1022645667 (490 words)

	Visvarupa - Report Vol. II Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The iconography of the two sculptures is almost certainly identical; a full comparison will be possible only if the paint can be stripped away and the identities of all the surrounding figures established.
		Das Bildnis wurde 1991 erneut untersucht und ausfuhrlich dokumentiert: ViÀ¸u with three crowned human heads, perhaps seated (legs broken off at upper thighs); the arms and all attributes are damaged or lost.
		The importance of the sculpture was later reported to the Collector of Mahesana, who undertook to move it to a place of safety.
	www.ignca.nic.in /visv0204.htm (3378 words)

	rediff.com: Nine killed in Gujarat
		Five persons, including a woman belonging to minority community, were burnt alive and six received burn injuries when their houses were set ablaze by a mob at Abason village in Ahmedabad district late on Tuesday night, police said.
		In another case, a youth was assaulted and set on fire by a mob on the road, coming under the jurisdiction of the Madhupura police station, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
		In Umreth town of Kheda district, one person was killed and four injured in police firing late on Tuesday night, police said adding authorities promptly imposed curfew in the area.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/apr/03train1.htm (302 words)

	Two die in Ahmedabad, Sabarkantha; district welcomes rain
		VADODARA, June 21: Heavy rains claimed two lives in Ahmedabad and Sabarkantha over the weekend, even as Vadodara district farmers welcomed the downpour, maintaining that it would be beneficial for their crops.
		Almost all the talukas of the district received rain on Monday.
		Ahmedabad, which experienced heavy rains on Monday, had its first casualty in 30-year-old Surjitsinh Rajput, who slipped on a slippery staircase and died.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990622/ige22130.html (177 words)

	CATARACT SURGICAL COVERAGE: An Indicator to Measure the Impact of Cataract Intervention Programmes - Hans Limburg, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Mandya District, for example, has a prevalence rate three times higher than Kodagu District, while the coverage indicators for persons and eyes are nearly the same.
		The problem of cataract blindness seems to be under control in Ahmedabad and the capacity to provide surgical services is sufficient to cater for the needs of most people in the district.
		In Ahmedabad district, however, many more people with a VA better than 3/60 were also operated upon.
	www.jceh.co.uk /journal/25_3.asp (2319 words)

	FAIRS of Gujarat-webindia123.com
		Most of the fairs in Gujarat are held on riversides (River Narmada in Baroda and Broach districts) or near confluences of rivers, sacred ponds and reservoirs or on hillsides, sea shores or in pilgrim centres, either in Chaitra (March/ April) or Kartika months on full moon days.
		The fair held on the full moon day of the Kartika at the confluence of seven rivers near the village Vautha, in the Ahmedabad district is the most colourful one when people from far and near collect and have a holy dip in the confluence.
		The Tarnatar fair in the village of Tarnetar in Surendranagar district celebrated in the honour of Lord Shiva on the 4th, 5th and 6th days of the bright half of the month of Bhadrapada (August/ September) is also a similar joyous occasion.
	www.webindia123.com /GUJARAT/festivals/fairs.htm (303 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Guj yatra: 2nd leg to be flagged off from Jhajharka
		Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) second phase of Gujarat 'Gaurav Yatra' would be flagged off by Union Minister for Social Welfare Satnarain Jatiya on September 14 from Ahmedabad district's Jhajharka, a place revered by Dalits in the state.
		The 'Gaurav Yatra', which was thrice postponed before finally being launched from Kheda district's Phagvel village on September 8 has so far covered 350 km.
		The second phase of the yatra, to be led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi and BJP's state unit chief Rajendrasinh Rana, would be flagged off by Jhajharka in Ahmedabad district's Dhandhuka taluka, and cover 607 km in three-days, the sources said.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/09/13/13yatra.html (271 words)

	Centre announces package of Rs 500 crore for flood-hit Gujarat : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In the "milk city" of Anand, Amul Dairy remained closed while inmates from a jail of nearby Nadidad were shifted to Ahmedabad central jail.
		In the south Gujarat district of Navasari, three rivers were flowing above the danger level, district collector JB Patel said.
		According to Ahmedabad district collector D Thara: "Many areas in and around the city have been inundated.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/15/181_1418327,001301120006.htm (452 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, conducted an aerial survey of some parts of Ahmedabad district this morning but he had to cut short his survey of the worst affected areas of Vadodara and other districts due to bad weather.
		Parts of Vadodara city and most areas of Anand and Kheda district of South Gujarat are under 10-12 feet of water.
		As many as 12 helicopters of the Indian Air Force were kept in readiness at the Ahmedabad Airport, which was the only airport operational.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/001200507021612.htm (461 words)

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