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1 DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT IN GUJARAT SINCE 2005 Gujarat State was formed on 1 May The state is administratively divided 1960, covering the Gujarati speaking in to 26 districts, spread over three areas of the erstwhile Bombay State. regions. These are: 1) South Gujarat, Gujarat is situated on the west coast of comprising the Districts of Kheda, Dahod, India. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Panchmahal, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, north, by the states of Rajasthan to the Tapi, Valsad, Narmada, Navsari, Anand north-east, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and The Dangs; 2) North Gujarat, Maharashtra and the union territories of comprising Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south- Patan, Mehsana, Gandhinagar and east, and by the Arabian Sea to the west Ahmedabad; and 3) Saurashtra and and south-west. Gujarat has an area of Kutch, comprising Jamnagar, Rajkot, 196 024 km, representing around 6% Surendranagar, Bhavnagar, Amreli, of the total area of the country. Junagadh, Porbandar and Kachchh. DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT IN GUJARAT SINCE 2005 1 The state is further divided into 226 According to 2004–2005 estimates by talukas. Gujarat has 18 622 villages the National Sample Survey Office, and 242 cities/towns. Ahmedabad, about 16.8% of Gujarat’s population is Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot are the estimated to be below the poverty line four urban centers with a million-plus (BPL—rural 19.1%, urban 13%). The population, and there are six municipal corresponding figure for the country is corporations.1 27.5% (rural 28.3%, urban 25.7%). With a population of 50.7 million in the Gujarat is among the better performing 2001 census, Gujarat is the tenth most Indian states in terms of demographic populous state in India, with 5% of the indicators.
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