Districts of Gujarat

On 1960-05-01, Gujarat was created out of the 17 northern districts of former State of Bombay. These districts were further subdivided later on. There are 26 administrative districts in the state (as of 2007).

1. Ahmedabad
2. Amreli
3. Anand
4. Banaskantha
5. Bharuch
6. Bhavnagar
7. Dahod
8. Dang
9. Gandhinagar
10. Jamnagar
11. Junagadh
12. Kheda
13. Kutch
14. Mehsana
15. Narmada
16. Navsari
17. Panchmahal
18. Patan
19. Porbandar
20. Rajkot
21. Sabarkantha
22. Surat
23. Surendranagar
24. Tapi
25. Vadodara
26. Valsad

Ahmedabad To Diu By Road

Land Transports from Ahmedabad to Diu

Ahmedabad has a host of private luxury coaches, which leave at night and reach Diu Islands by the next morning. Some of the bus service agencies that provide transportation facilities to Diu Islands are Sahjanand Travels, and Shiv Shakti Travels.

There is a land route to Delwara (which is about eight kilometers from Diu) from Ahmedabad via Rajkot, Junagadh and Veravel. The exquisite landscape and lush greenery which dots the bus route is very soothing to the eye.

Diu Island can also be accessed from Una, which is only 13 km away. Both the State Transport buses as well as private bus lines offer transportation facilities to Una. Auto rickshaws are also available from the Tower Chowk at Una, which offers transport services to Diu Island.

The picturesque cities of Bhavnagar, Veraval and Palitana fall on the way to Una, one of the access points to Diu Island, from Ahmedabad. The distance from Diu Island to Ahmedabad via Una is 495 km. From Bhavnagar the distance is 225 km while from Veraval the distance to Diu Island is only 77 km.

Connections to Mumbai, Sasangir, Somnath and Rajkot

Diu Islands is well connected to Mumbai (a metropolitan city of India) via bus route. The distance from Mumbai to Diu Islands is about 930 km. Diu is also connected to the nearby cities of Sasangir, Rajkot and Somnath. The distance from Somnath to Diu is 87 km while the distance from Rajkot is 261 km. Sasangir is 128 km away from Diu Island.

With the development of the infrastructure, traveling to Diu Island by road has become more convenient.

About Kutch

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Kachchh literally means something which intermittently becomes wet and dry; a large part of this district is known as Rann of Kachchh which is shallow wetland which submerges in water during the rainy season and becomes dry during other seasons. The same word is also used in the languages of Sanskrit origin for a tortoise and garments to be worn while having a bath. The Rann is famous for its marshy salt flats which become snow white after the shallow water dries up each season before the monsoon rains.



The district is also famous for ecologically important Banni grasslands with their seasonal marshy wetlands which form the outer belt of the Rann of Kutch.

Kachchh District is surrounded by the Gulf of Kachchh and the Arabian Sea in south and west, while northern and eastern parts are surrounded by the Great and Small Rann (seasonal wetlands) of Kachchh. When there were not many dams built on its rivers, the Rann of Kachchh remained wetlands for a large part of the year. Even today, the region remains wet for a significant part of year. The district had a population of 1,583,225 of which 30% were urban as of 2001.[1] Motor vehicles registered in Kutch district have their registration Number starting with GJ-12.

Beaches of Gujarat

Somnath Beach



Ahmedpur Mandvi Beach




Porbandar Beach

Jhaverchand Meghani

Jhaverchand Meghani (Gujarati: ઝવેરચંદ મેઘાની; August 28, 1896(1896-08-28)-March 9, 1947) was noted poet, litterateur, social reformer and freedom fighter from Gujarat.He is well known name in the field of Gujarati literature. He was born in Chotila. Mahatma Gandhi spontaneously gave him the title of Raashtreeya Shaayar (National Poet). Besides this he received many awards like Ranjitram Suvaranachandrak and Mahida Paaritoshik in literature. He authored more than 100 books. His first book was a translation work of Rabindranath Tagore's ballad Kathaa-u-Kaahinee titled Kurbani Ni Katha (Stories of martyrdom) which was first published in 1922. He was attached to Gujarati folk literature. He went village-to-village in search of folk-lores and published them in various volumes of Saurashtra Ni Rasdhar. Other Gujarati authors like Harilal Upadhyay have also shown respect to the writing skills of Shri Meghani. He was also the Editor of Phoolchhab Newspaper of Janmabhoomi group (which is being published till date from Rajkot).
A sample of his collection of folk tales from Saurashtra has recently been published in an English, with the translation done by his son Vinod Meghani. The three volumes published so far are titled A Noble Heritage, A Shade Crimson and The Ruby Shattered.

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