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Banaskantha Banaskantha borders with Rajasthan state in the North, Sabarkantha district in East, Kutch district in South and Patan and Mehsana district in the South. Banaskantha is a district in Northeast of Gujarat state of India. Banaskantha is rich in Marble quarries and Copper deposits. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Banaskantha

Encyclopedia: Districts of Gujarat Gujarat was created in 1960 out of the 17 northern districts of former Bombay state : Ahmedabad, Amreli, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dang, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Panchmahal, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surat, Surendranagar, and Vadodara. In 2000 Patan District was formed from parts of Banaskantha and Mahesana. On October 2, 1997 Anand district was split from Kheda, Dahod district was split from Panchmahal, Narmada District was split from Bharuch, Navsari District was split from Valsad, and Porbandar district was split from Junagadh. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Districts-of-Gujarat

Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. Total 8434 Ha command area of Becharaji Taluka of Mehsana district, 116460 Ha command of Chanasma, Harij, Sami, Radhanpur, Santalpur Taluka of Patan district, 339 Ha command area of Dasada Taluka of Surendranagar district and 617 Ha command area of Kankarej Taluka Banaskantha district will be benefited by irrigation. By the above five branch canal, it is planned to irrigate an area of about 1.26 Lac Ha of Mehsana, Patan, Surendranagar and Banaskantha District. Work on branch canals which shall benefit 1.26 Lac ha of command area of Mehsana, Patan, Surendranagar and Banaskantha are planned to start in the new working season after this monsoon. www.sardarsarovardam.org /press/press51.htm

GENDER Thereafter, the Deputy District Development Officer of Banaskantha district gave a speech welcoming his Holiness, shri. A Madari Mahila Sammelan is planned to be organised at Amargarh in block Radhanpur, also in Banaskantha district. A handbook on gender education was prepared by the State Project Office and distributed to all the primary schools in Banaskantha, Panchmahals and Dangs districts. dpegujarat.nic.in /gender.htm

Women, water, and work: The success of the self-employed women's association The review observes that a sound and reliable hydrological analysis is lacking and cites “compelling evidence that the Sardar Sarovar Projects will not operate as planned.” In other words, the waters of Narmada are not likely to reach rural villagers in Banaskantha or other poor, arid districts. In villages of the desert district of Banaskantha in Gujarat, India, many local women have taken control of the key resource they need for their livelihoods and their families’ survival: water. The Banaskantha River runs through the district but remains dry for most of the year. pubs.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1869

North Gujarat Sustainable Groundwater Initiative The consultation was attended by senior representatives from Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation and the three district Milk Unions of Banaskantha, Mehsana and Sabarkantha. The IWMI-Tata Mission to Banaskantha headed by Dr. S. Prathapar (Professor, University of Technology, Sydney) recommended a four-point action program for the district. Following upon that, a fieldwork was undertaken to understand that ground situation in the three different hydro-geological zones of the district and recommend an actionable program. www.iwmi.cgiar.org /iwmi-tata_html/projects/ngi.htm

New Page 3 The branch canal is planned to run through Banaskantha and Patan districts in its initial reach up to 88 kms and thereafter crossing little Rann of Kachchh and then finally enters the Kachchh district at Ch. Total Culturable Command Area(CCA) of the Kachchh Branch Canal is 1,75,889 ha out of which 63,111 ha is in Banaskantha / Patan district and 1,12,778 ha is in Kachchh district. Total CCA of 1, 12,700 ha with water allocation of 0.496 Millian Acre Ft (MAF) is planned to be covered under irrigation by Kachchh Branch Canal. www.sardarsarovardam.org /kbc.htm

Gujarat Samachar Online :: English Version Adjoining Banaskantha is the tribal district of Sabarkantha. Border district Banaskantha is another constituency from the North Gujarat. Banaskantha has 20 per cent Patels, 11 per cent SC and 18 per cent Kolis. www.gujaratsamachar.com /gsa/20040228/eng/gujarat/news1.html

WRI Features, WRI Features, September 2003, Volume 1, Number 8 In the desert district of Banaskantha in Gujarat, India, local women have taken control of the key resource they need for their livelihoods and their families' survival: water. In the villages of the desert district of Banaskantha, women spend up to six hours a day bringing water from distant sources to their homes. Banaskantha, which is in the country's western state of Gujarat, receives less than 7 inches of rainfall each year. newsroom.wri.org /wrifeatures_print.cfm?NewsletterID=47

Banaskantha: Thakore is Independent nominee- The Times of India Thakore was the district president of Vaghela’s now-dissolved Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) in Banaskantha and hails from the Thakore subcaste of the OBCs,who have traditionally been a Congress vote bank. The move has elated the BJP whose district president Ranabhai Desai said, “We are going to retain Banaskantha seat for third consecutive term.” Thakore is serious and told newspersons that he will not withdraw his nomination. Banaskantha has over 13 lakh voters of which around two lakh are Thakores. www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/595365.cms

sarvodaya_proposal_revised.doc Project Area : Vav Taluka of Banaskantha District Villages to be Covered Under AID Project : (A couple of villages are changed) Mavsari, Lodrani, Vav, Padan, Suigam, Umedpura, Kareli, Shivnagar Banaskantha District is notified as earthquake affected by the govt. In this context, provision of additional income through handicraft work could be a major area of activity. To make it easier to compare it with the original budget, I have marked the changes next to the respective items in RED and in BOLD. studentorgs.utexas.edu /aidaustin/projects/Sarvodaya/sarvodaya_proposal_revised.doc

Sabarkantha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Banaskantha and Mehsana districts in West, Gandhinagar and Kheda districts in South and Panchmahals district in the East. Sabar dairy, 2nd biggest Co-operative dairy (even bigger than famous Amul) producing 10 lakh liters of milk a day is located in Himmatnagar. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabarkantha

Saurashtra, north Gujarat face severe drought While the tribal population of Sabarkantha draws water from hand-pumps, Banaskantha is desperately banking on the digging of fresh tubewells. In north Gujarat, severe water scarcity is being faced by Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and parts of Mehsana. The situation in Banaskantha, however, isn't as grim as it is elsewhere. www.narmada.org /archive/ie/20010329.ina29006.html

Mansukhbhai B. Patel Specifically the 797 variety which is grown in Banaskantha district of Gujarat needs much manual labour. A great deal of manual labour goes into peeling of cotton from shells before the cotton is sold to the mills for ginning and pressing. Mansukhbhai’s innovative cotton peeler mechanises this process and does a better quality output with a far better efficiency. www.sristi.org /mansubhbhai.htm

Future Plan The aim is to develop rural centers by the institutions at different places, which do not have the facilities of education and social development, instead of concentrating the activities at one place and thus, to participate in the all-over development of Banaskantha district. Over and above, in the backward villages of Banaskantha, there is a need of housing the activities, and therefore, there is a need for immediate construction of buildings, schools and hospitals. It is also our aim to start health centers at different places, as there is dearth services in Banaskantha, in comparison to other regions. www.lokniketan.org /future_plan.htm

One for India : Sarvodaya Craft Development Center Presently it is working in 51 tribal villages of Amirgadh tribal pocket and 41 border villages of Vav Taluka in the northern Banaskantha district of Gujarat. The Banaskantha area has been notified as an area affected by the earthquake in Gujarat. Further, the area is also drought affected with meager rainfall resulting in migration of residents of this area with their cattle and children, in search of employment. www.oneforindia.org /ofi2002/sarvodaya.php

The silver lining: deficit made up The border-district of Kutch has only received 131 mm against 559 mm last year, while Banaskantha has received 178.6 mm against 559.2 mm, last year. Banaskantha, however, has remained mostly dry till now. cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=94554

sewa.org achievements Four such fodder banks are in operation in the desert district of Banaskantha. Artisans of Banaskantha and Kutch exhibited and sold their textile products in Paris and three other cities of France, our first international exhibition. Fodder Banks were started and managed by SEWA’s rural ‘aagewans’ a drought proofing measure to protect cattle and safeguard their nutrition. www.sewa.org /achievements/main.htm

Child Haven home for destitute children - Gandhinagar, India Child Haven opened its first home in Dhanera, Banaskantha district, Gujarat in 1985. In 1989, the home was moved to a cottage in a mango orchard in Changa. www.childhaven.ca /gandhin.htm

Dalit family spends year in hut looking for justice She got married on Friday from the same shack in the compound of the Banaskantha District Collectorate in Palanpur that the 55-year-old has been living in for the past year, demanding that the upper-caste ''murderers'' of his son be brought to book. Ahmedabad, July 2: For the past 374 days, Chatrabhai Savabhai hasn't taken a break in his fight to get justice for his son. Chatrabhai moved into the shack the day a post-mortem on his son Easabhai blamed ''uncertain'' causes for his death. www.ambedkar.org /News/dalit_family_spends.htm

Banas Dairy, Lifeline of Banaskantha District Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union Limited known as Banas Dairy is a cooperative organization established in the year 1969 under the Gujarat Co-operative societies Act 1961 with the support of NDDB as a part of their operation Flood Program launched to bring about white revolution in the country. Welcome to Banas Dairy, Life Line of Banaskantha District. We manufacture a large number of dairy products under AMUL, SAGAR and BANAS brands. www.banasdairy.coop

55% turn out in Gujarat civic polls - NDTV.com - News on 55% turn out in Gujarat civic polls Dholakia said barring a minor incident of firing in Banaskantha, no untoward incident was reported from any part of the state, where 88 municipalities, two district panchayats - Kheda and Banaskantha - and 15 taluka panchayats went to polls. Polling for the civic bodies in Gujarat ended peacefully with nearly 55 per cent voter turn out, according to preliminary reports pouring in from various parts of the state, state election officer P J Dholakia said here today. The voting, which subsided after a heavy rush of people at the booths in the morning, gathered pace as it came to an end at 5.00 pm. www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=55%25+turn+out+in+Gujarat+civic+polls&id=35197

Welcome to Amul - The Taste of India One of the members of GCMMF, the Banas dairy, has started a unique initiative called the Internet Sewa Project in their district called Banaskantha. This is a village-level effort at bridging the Digital Divide by providing information kiosks at the Village Cooperative level. www.amul.com /bridge.html

Rediff On The NeT: 8 more perish as Gujarat flood toll touches 273 Official sources said that two gates of the Shipu dam in Banaskantha district in north Gujarat were opened on Wednesday morning following incessant rain in its catchment area. The death toll in the current monsoon in Gujarat has mounted to 273 with eight more deaths reported from Bulsar (3), Baroda (2), Sabarkantha (2) and Kheda (1) districts during the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the turbulent Narmada, which has been flowing above the red mark at the Golden Bridge near Bharuch in south Gujarat for the last two days, is receding now. www.rediff.com /news/aug/27guj1.htm

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