Rangilu Rajkot

Saturday 14 June 2014

Transport

Rajkot is connected to major Indian cities by Air, Railway and Road.

Roads and highways

The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) runs regular buses to and from Rajkot to other cities of Gujarat. More than 81000 people travel daily with GSRTC .Rajkot is very well connected with Gujarat State Highways and Rajkot is allocated the vehicle registration code GJ-3 by RTO. There are a number of private bus operators connecting city with other cities of Gujarat state and other states of India

Rail and Internal Transport

Trains for the all the major cities of India are available from here. Rajkot Junction is the more widely used railway station for passenger trains. Its elevation is 128 m above sea level. Its station code is "RJT".

Rajkot Municipal Corporation has restored city bus services with Public Private Partnership in 2007. RMC and a private company is providing around 80 CNG buses under 15 to 20 routes in city and suburbs.

Recently Rajkot BRTS was launched on 1 October 2012.a new Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) with launching of the 10-km long Blue corridor and two AC buses which will be free for the first three months. The corridor is located in the west part of the city through the 150 ft ring road connecting Madhapar chokdi on the Jamangar road to Gondal chokdi on the Gondal road. The corridor will host 11 buses in further stage.

Rajkot BRTS Route: The fully completed project in future will have two more corridors - green and red from Arvind Maniyar Nagar to Saurashtra University and Greenland Chowk to Saurashtra University respectively involving 157 buses in three colors. Rajkot thus becomes the second city in Gujarat to have BRTS after Ahmedabad. The city of Surat too is planning an ambitious BRTS project, construction of which is going on presently.

Rajkot has a large number of auto rickshaws, which operate around the clock within the city. Most of these are converted to CNG from petrol or diesel.

Aviation

Air travel is developing slowly in the city. There are multiple daily flights to Mumbai, served by Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and other carriers. Intermittent services to Ahmedabad and a hopping service to Bhavnagar on the way to Mumbai have been undertaken periodically. Currently Indian Airlines and Jet Airways offer daily flights between Rajkot and Mumbai Airport. Another new service planned by Jet Airways to Mumbai and Bangalore would enhance aviation.

Rajkot Airport is located at a short distance from the city centre.

Education

Rajkot is famous for providing education to Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhiji), at the Alfred High School. A number of schools in the city are run by Rajkot Municipal Corporation.They include 20 schools and learning centers,^[25] which consist of 3 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, 4 junior high schools, 4 senior high schools, 1 education centers, and 1 special school.^[26] There are also some self-financed public schools. TGES (The Galaxy Educational System) is a group of sister schools.Rajkot is home to Rajkumar College, Rajkot, also known RKC, which is one of the oldest schools of India.

Rajkot also has Union Government HRD Ministry run Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, now shifted to Jamnagar highway premise. Earlier it started at the Juni Khadki school premise of Sir Lakhajiraj High School and later on moved to its own building on the Jamnagar Road. It is CBSE Board affiliated, residential school for girls and boys, providing education to those selected at the Class VI level all India entrance test.^[27]^[28]

The city is home to Saurashtra University, several colleges, and other institutions of higher education, both public and private. Rajkot is also home to the first private university in Saurashtra, RK University (RKU), which offers more than 50 programs at different levels from diploma to doctorate degrees.^[29] The city has 12 engineering colleges. It has a Performing Arts College (Vocal, Classical dance, Tabla Vadan etc.) opposite Hemu Gadhvi Natya Gruh. The Saurashtra University is the city's public university. It is spread across approximately 410 acres (1.7 km²) of green land with 28 post graduation departments.

Law and government

Rajkot is governed by many government bodies, including Jilla Seva Sadan (Rajkot District Collector Offices), Rajkot Municipal Corporation, Rajkot Urban Development Authority and bodies like the Police Department of Gujarat and the Rajkot City Traffic Police Department, which work to maintain law and order in the city.

Preceded by Mr. Janakbhai Kotak	City Mayor June 2013– Present	Succeeded by Mrs Raxaben Bodiya
Preceded by Mr.Dinesh H.Brahmbhatt	City Municipal Commissioner 2011– Present	Succeeded by Mr. Ajay Bhadu
Preceded by Mr H.P.Singh	City Police Commissioner December 2013– Present	Succeeded by Mr.Mohan Jha

The city civic body has started a 24x7 call center, the first of its kind in Gujarat and the second in the country to take care of all complaints relating to civic management. Citizens can now get all their complaints registered with the Rajkot Municipal Corporation by dialling a single number with an assurance that the problem would be addressed within 72 hours.

Industry

Rajkot is famous for its jewelry market, silk embroidery and watch parts. The city hosts several small scale manufacturing industries. Some of the industrial products for which Rajkot is known include bearings, diesel engines, kitchen knives and other cutting appliances, watch parts (cases & bracelets), automotive parts, forging industry, casting industry, machine tools, share market and software development.^{[citation needed]} The city is also home to some of the largest CNC machine and auto parts manufacturers in the country such as Jyoti CNC Automation Pvt. Ltd, Macpower CNC Machines Pvt. Ltd. and Atul Auto Ltd.

Rajkot is well known throughout the world for its casting and forging industries.^{[citation needed]} Over the last few years, it has started to play an increasingly important role in the complex supply chains of many global engineering companies that make products such as electric motors, automobiles, machine tools, bearings, etc.^{[citation needed]}

There are about 500 foundry units in Rajkot. The cluster came up mainly to cater to the casting requirements of the local diesel engine industry. The geographical spread of the cluster includes Aji Vasahat, Gondal Road and Bhavanagar Road areas. The majority of foundry units in Rajkot produce grey iron castings for the domestic market. A very small percentage (about 2%) of the foundry units export castings such as electric motor castings, automobile castings etc.

Rajkot is also famous for its gold purity and has one of the largest gold markets in India.^{[citation needed]}

Rajkot is also growing up in Software Industries and ITeS. There are many SOHO companies working in Web Development along with many new multinational call centers and software companies such as NCrypted Technologies setting up their operations and development centers in Rajkot.

Rajkot's sister city Morbi is also a manufacturing hub for ceramics industry, wall clocks industry and electrical accessories. The city is a home to large industries such as Ajanta Clock, Samay Group, ORPAT Group, Sonera Industries, Rickon Quartz etc.

In the near future, the government of Gujarat will allocate large land areas for the development of Special Economic Zone^[23] which will be parted in three different areas and will include industries such as Software, Auto-Mobiles, etc. As per recent market reviews, Rajkot is becoming Asia's biggest Auto-Mobile Zone.

Rajkot is also famous for its textile printing units which produce cotton salwar suits and cotton print and silk sarees.

Rajkot was formerly the leading centre in India in the field of diesel engine and submersible pumps. Submersible pumps are still manufactured in the city and marketed throughout India, with some of the larger manufacturers also exporting them.

Rajkot is also home to some of India's leading snacks manufacturers such as Balaji Wafers Pvt Ltd, Gopal Snacks Pvt Ltd and is home to one of India's leading share broker Marwadi Shares & Finance Ltd.

President of India

Presidents Of INDIA

The President of India is the head of state of the Republic of India. The President is the formal head of the legislature, executive and judiciary branches of Indian Democracy and is the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. The powers to pardon and clemency are vested with the President of India.

Sr.		Presidents & Tenure	Vice Presidents

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

30.01.1950 to 13.05.1962

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

13.05.1962 to 13.05.1967

Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain

13.05.1967 to 03.05.1969

Varahagiri Venkata Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri

03.05.1969 to 20.07.1969
(Acting)

Muhammad Hidayatullah

20.07.1969 to 24.08.1969
(Acting)

Varahagiri Venkata Giri

24.08.1969 to 24.08.1977

Gopal Swarup Pathak

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

24.08.1974 to 11.02.1977

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Basappa Danappa Jatti

11.02.1977 to 25.07.1977
(Acting)

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

25.07.1977 to 25.07.1982

Muhammad Hidayatullah

Giani Zail Singh

25.07.1982 to 25.07.1987

Ramaswamy Venkataraman

Ramaswamy Venkataraman

25.07.1987 to 25.07.1992

Shankar Dayal Sharma

Shankar Dayal Sharma

25.07.1992 to 25.07.1997

Kocheril Raman Narayanan

10.

Kocheril Raman Narayanan

25.07.1997 to 25.07.2002

Krishan Kant

11.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

25.07.2002 to 25.07.2007

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat

12.

Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

25.07.2007 to 24.07.2012

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

13.

Pranab Mukherjee

25.07.2012 to Till date

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Industries

Rajkot Industries

Rajkot is famous for its jewellery market, silk embroidery and watch parts. The city hosts several small scale manufacturing industries. Some of the industrial products for which Rajkot is known include bearings, diesel engines, kitchen knives and other cutting appliances, watch parts (cases & bracelets), automotive parts, forging industry, casting industry, machine tools, share market and software development.

Rajkot is well known throughout the world for its casting and forging industries. Over the last few years, it has started to play an increasingly important role in the complex supply chains of many global engineering companies that make products such as electric motors, automobiles, machine tools, bearings etc.

There are about 500 foundry units in Rajkot. The cluster came-up mainly to cater to the casting requirements of the local diesel engine industry. The geographical spread of the cluster includes Aji Vasahat, Gondal Road and Bhavanagar Road areas. The majority of foundry units in Rajkot produce grey iron castings for the domestic market.

Rajkot is also famous for its gold purity. It has one of the largest gold markets in India. Rajkot is also growing up in Software Industries and ITeS. There are many SOHO companies working in web development and many new multinational software companies and call centers are setting up their operation and development center in Rajkot.

Rajkot is also famous for its textile printing units, this units products Cotton sulvar-suits and Cotton prints sarees and also make a pure silk patoda.

Once upon a time Rajkot was the hub of India in the field of Diesel engine and submercible Pumps. Still, Submercible pumps are manufactured in a lot and marketed throughout India and some of the big manufacturers also export them.