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Place details
- Locality
- Anand
- Region
- Gujarat
- Country
- India
- Population
- 209,410
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Gujarat
- District
- Anand
- Region
- Charotar Region Of Gujarat
- Type
- karamsad Anand Municipal Corporation
- Total
- 85.67 km (33.08 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 39 m (128 ft)
- Density
- 8,753/km (22,670/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Charotar-ites
- Official
- Gujarati , Hindi , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- GJ-23
- Website
- https://anandmc.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Anand
- Country
- India
- Population
- 130462
- Area
- 2939.9
- Elevation
- 39
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Anand district
- Image
- Amul Plant at Anand.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2692
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- postal code
- 388001
- Commons category
- Anand
- native label
- આણંદ
- P12749
- Binjai
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Travel guide
Get in
Anand is one of the most busiest railway stations on the western railways corridor connecting Ahmadabad and Mumbai.
The nearest airport is Vadodara, 40 km away, and Ahmadabad Airport is 70 km away.
Anand is on the NH8 connecting Delhi with Mumbai.
Do
Watch a film. There are many cinemas in the city.
Eat
Dalvada (Civil Court) Divine Ekata Restaurant Flavours Icy Spicy Mastana Dabeli Sarvoday Ice-Cream Santram Dosa Shriji Vada-pav Yogesh Khaman House
Drink
Gujarat is a dry state, so no alcohol is legally sold without a difficult-to-obtain licence. However, you can get good milk, ice-cream and buttermilk.
Go next
The big city of Ahmedabad is about a 1 1/2-hour drive or train trip to the northwest. Vadtal - Visit Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. Direct buses are available just outside Anand Junction Railway station. Karamsad - Place where Sardar Vallabh Bhai patel grew up. There is a memorial in this town on Sardar Patel. This place falls on Anand Khambhat Railway line so trains may not be immediately available. Once can take rickshaw from Anand but it is recommended to decide the fair upfront. Dakor and its Grand Temple of Shree Ranchhodraiji are about a 50-minute drive to the northeast.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Anand is a city and 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. 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). 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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