Gandhinagar is the capital city of Gujarat established as a modernized twin city for Ahmedabad. It was visualised as a planned city along the lines of New Delhi, Chandigarh and Bhuwneswar. Located in the banks of river Sabarmati, the city is the administrative centre of Gujarat. It does not seem to be a prudent concerted effort of creating Gandhinagar a knowledge hub by establishing several educational institutions of national and international repute, but it happened in sinusoidal phase during last one century or less.
Gandhinagar city is a head centre of the Gandhinagar District and Capital of Gujarat State. The district includes four talukas – Mansa, Kalol, Dahegam and Gandhinagar. All kinds of head offices of state government, secretariat of all departments, offices and residents of minister’s legislative assembly, residence of governor and other important offices are situated in Gandhinagar. Moreover, sectors 30 have been for quarters and private residences of government servants, who belongs to all communities.
History
In the 13thcentuary, king Pethasinhof Pethapur, ruled over Shertha town. After the death of Pethasinh, the Sultanate of Patan used this land as battle ground. Sultan Ahmed Shah decided to move his capital from Patan to a new city, and built Ahmedabad. In 1960, Bombay State was split in two different states, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Ahmedabad became capital of Gujarat, and a new capital city was to be built on land which was once part of Pethapur state. The new capital city was planned by Chief Architect H. K. Mewada, educated at Cornell University, and his assistant Prakash M Apte. Both had worked as trainees under legendary architect Le Corbusier in the Chandigarh Project in the 1950s. Gandhinagar’s streets are numbered and have cross streets named for letters of the Gujarati alphabet. All streets cross every kilometre and at every crossing traffic circles decrease the speed of traffic.
Education Institute in Gandhinagar
Several courses collages are there in the Gandhinagar like professional degree course, such as law, engineering, medicine etc. Government of Gujarat has Developed Knowledge Corridor in Gandhinagar Region. Maximum Institutes are available in Gandhinagar region. There are all streams colleges & institutes available in city including major part of national & international institutes & universities in Gujarat, they are KadiSarvaVishwavidyalaya, Gujarat National Law University, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat Institute of Solar Energy Gandhinagar, DhirubhaiAmbani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bhaskaracharya Institute of Geo – Informatics, PanditDeendayal Petroleum University, Government Engineering College, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Unitedworld School of Business, Institute for Plasma Research, School of Petroleum Technology, Industrial Training Institute.
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