Banaskantha district is one of the thirty-four districts of the Gujarat state of India. The administrative headquarters of the district is at Palanpur which is also its largest city. The district is located in the Northeast of Gujarat and is presumably named after the West Banas River which runs through the valley between Mount Abu and Aravalli Range, flowing to the plains of Gujarat in this region and towards the Rann of Kutch. The district is famous for the Ambaji temple which draws many tourists. It was covers an area of 12,703 km2 and it was the second largest district in the state till Jan 2025, After Vav-Tharad district was carved out of the western part of the district and remaining area of 6,176 km2 remains the same.
Palanpur is a city and a headquarters of Banaskantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Palanpur is the ancestral home to an industry of Indian diamond merchants.
Patan district is one of the 34 districts of Gujarat state in western India. Its main city is Patan. This district is located in northern Gujarat and bounded by Vav-Tharad district in the north, Banaskantha district in the northeast, Mehsana district in the east and southeast, Surendranagar district in the south and Kutch District and the Kutch nu Nanu Ran in the west. The district occupies an area of 5792 km2.
Deesa is a city and a municipality in the Banaskantha district in the state of Gujarat, India.
Tharad is a administrative center of the Vav-Tharad district. Here is 134 villages are there. Tharad is 45km near to international boarder with Pakistan and 40km away from the state boarder with the Rajasthan state. main industries are agriculture and private businesses. It is one of the first major towns in Gujarat on National Highway 68.
North Gujarat, the Northern part of Indian state of Gujarat includes the districts of Gandhinagar, Banaskantha, Patan, Aravalli, Mehsana Sabarkantha and Vav-Tharad district. Patan city is the administrative headquarters of North Gujarat. There Are Two Municipal Corporations in North Gujarat Mehsana And Gandhinagar
Shihori is a village in Vav-Tharad district district of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kankrej Taluka and has a population of more than 10,000.
Vav is a town and the headquarters of Vav Taluka in Vav - Tharad District in Gujarat state of India. Vav is the largest taluka of the district.
Shankar Chaudhary is an Indian politician from Gujarat state. He is the Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly since December 2022. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2017 and again since 2022.
Liladharbhai Khodaji Vaghela was a Member of Parliament or Lok Sabha from Patan constituency in Gujarat, India.
Vav is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Vav-Tharad district. It is numbered as 7-Vav.
Tharad is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Vav-Tharad district and comes under Banaskantha Lok Sabha constituency for national elections. It came into existence after 2008 delimitation.
Banas Dairy is a division of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation which is under the ownership of Ministry of Cooperation, Government of Gujarat based in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat, India and is Asia's largest milk producer. It was founded in 1969, in accordance with the 1961 rule of the National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood. Galbabhai Nanjibhai Patel played an important role in the foundation of the dairy. It is headquartered at Palanpur.
Diyodar, also spelled Diodar or Deodar, is a town and former princely state in Diyodar Taluka of Vav-Tharad district in Gujarat, western India.
Morvada is a village in Vav Taluka of Banaskantha district in Gujarat, India.
Bhabhar is a town in the Vav-Tharad District of Gujarat, India.
Dhima is a village in Vav-Tharad District in Gujarat, India.
Mavji Desai is a Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Dhanera- Banaskantha, Chairman of APMC Deesa, Former Vice-Chairman of Banas Dairy, and the member of Bhartiya Janta Party.
Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat, in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently, 182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members, the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
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