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Anand, Gujarat
Anand
The Milk City | |
|---|---|
| Charotar Region Of Gujarat | |
 Amul Plant at Anand | |
| Nickname: The Milk City | |
  Anand Location in Gujarat, India  Anand Anand (India)  Anand Anand (Asia) | |
| Coordinates: 22°33′22″N 72°57′04″E / 22.556°N 72.951°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Gujarat |
| District | Anand |
| Region | Charotar Region Of Gujarat |
| Government | |
| • Type | Anand Municipal Corporation |
| Area | |
• Total | 47.89 km2 (18.49 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 11 |
| Elevation | 39 m (128 ft) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 27,900 (metro−410,016 |
| • Rank | 9th |
| • Density | 6,562.25/km2 (16,996.1/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Charotar-ites |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Gujarati, Hindi, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 388001 |
| Area code | 2692 |
| Vehicle registration | GJ-23 |
| Website | gujaratindia |
Anand is the administrative centre of Anand District in the state of Gujarat, India. It is administered by Anand Municipal Corporation. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Anand and Kheda districts. Anand is Former Part Of Kaira District (now Kheda) in British Raj.
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.[1] 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 (63 mi) 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. Anand Railway Station has 5 platforms, numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are on the main line and number 5 is on the branch line to Godhra. A new platform is in construction on the branch to Ahmedabad from the Godhra line forming a triangle. The Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway from Ahmedabad to Vadodara also passes through Anand.
- ^ DAMODARAN, HARISH (13 September 2012). "The Amul trinity". thehindubusinessline.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
The original credit goes to Dalaya — something that Kurien always acknowledged, and reiterated when the former passed away on September 12, 2004. While Patel dealt with the farmers, and Dalaya took charge of the technical and internal affairs of the dairy, "my role was only in marketing, external affairs and handling politicians, bureaucrats and other establishment people," the ever-frank Kurien admitted at the time. In Anand, it was said that if Patel was the Father of Amul, Kurien was the Son, and Dalaya the Holy Ghost.
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