GUJARAT & GUJARATI

MUST KNOW FACTS: GUJARAT & GUJARATI

May 1, 2011 at 1:25am

UNLIKE ALL OUR PREVIOUS POSTS, JENTILAL (http://www.facebook.com/gujaratijokes) HAS POSTED THIS NOTE IN ENGLISH AND NOT IN GUJARATI.

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1. TO HELP US KNOW AND REMEMBER THE REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS AS GUJARATIS
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HERE ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE AND MUST-KNOW FACTS ABOUT GUJARAT AND GUJARATIS -

• Gujarat is having the longest sea shore compared to any other Indian state 
• Gujarat is having the highest no. of operating airports in India
• Gujarat is having the highest no. of vegetarian people compared to any other state in India
• Gandhinagar is the Greenest Capital City in whole Asia
• In year 2010, Forbes list of world's fastest growing cities included Ahmedabad at number 3 after Chengdu and Chongqing from China
• Gujarat is the safest state as the Crime rate of it is 8.2 which is the least in India even after considering 2002 communal riots
• Gujarat is having the least crime against women among all Indian states (excluding Goa)
• Reliance Petroleum Limited, one of the group companies of Reliance Industries Limited founded by Dhirubhai Ambani operates the oil refinery at Jamnagar which is the world's largest grass roots refineries
• Ahmedabad which is the seventh largest city in India is the lowest in crime rate among all Tier-I and Tier-II cities of India as per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report 
• According to the report of The National Council of Applied Economic Research, the richest city in India is now Surat , ahead of Bangalore and Madras, with an average annual household income of Rs 450,000
• The percentage of man-days lost in Gujarat due to labour unrest is 0.42 per cent, the lowest in India
• The world’s third largest denim manufacturer is Ahmedabad’s Arvind Mills
• The state of Gujarat’s GDP has been growing at 12 per cent a year for the last 12 years, as fast as China‘s
• Gujaratis number five per cent of India‘s population living on six per cent of surface area, but hold more than 30 per cent equity of all Indian stocks in the share market
• Did you know that one in every five Indian Americans is a Gujarati whereas one in every 20 Indians is a Gujarati?
• The Patel surname runs into multiple sheets of pages in the New Jersey Telephone Directory
• The Gujaratis own more than 17,000 hotels and motels in the US, with one million rooms representing over 50 percent of U.S. economy lodges
• Gujaratis are key players in the multi-billion dollar diamond export business all over the world from Africa to the UK and US. 80 per cent of all diamonds sold anywhere in the world are polished in Gujarat. The only non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem diamond bourse are Gujaratis
• Commercial banks in Gujarat have total NRI deposits of Rs. 17,500 crores, of which FCNR deposits are worth Rs. 9,370 crores as of 2006. These figures have increased exponentially since then
• An average income of a Gujarati family in North America is three times more than the average income of an American family (http://www.facebook.com/gujaratijokes)
• The first ALL VEG PIZZA-HUT was opened in Ahmedabad  
• Gujarat is the only home of Asiatic Lions
• Outside Africa, Gujarat is the only present natural habitat of lions
• India’s only Liquid Chemical Port Terminal at Dahej, developed by Gujarat Chemical Port Terminal Co Ltd. Gujarat has two of the three Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals in the country (Dahej and Hazira)
• Gujarat is the only state in India to have State Wide Gas Grid of 2,200 km
• 87.9% of the total roads in the state are asphalt surfaced. 98.86% village connectivity with all‐weather roads, the highest in India
• 100% of Gujarat's 18,000 villages have electricity connection
• Gujarat ranks first nationwide in gas-based thermal electricity generation with national market share of over 8% and second nationwide in nuclear electricity generation with national market share of over 1%
• Gujarat has largest OFC network of more than 50,000 km
• The state owned Wide Area Network is the largest IP-based ICT network in Asia Pacific Region and second largest in the world, connecting 26 districts and 225 talukas through 12,000 nodes
• Over 20% of the S&P CNX 500 conglomerates have corporate offices in Gujarat
• As per RBI report, in year 2006–07, 26% out of total bank finance in India was in Gujarat. This figure has since increased exponentially
• Gujarat produces about 98% of India's required amount of Soda Ash and gives the country about 78% of its national requirement of salt
• Gujarat is the largest producer of milk in India
• Amul - Anand milk co-operative federation products are well known all over India, and it is Asia's biggest dairy
• Gujarati has also been the language spoken by two of South Asia`s most prominent leaders: the Father of the Indian Nation, Mahatma Gandhi and the Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. They were both Gujaratis from trading communities. One a Bania, the other a Khoja
•  Surat is the Third cleanest city in India after Chandigarh and Mysore

• Some of the areas have Gujarat’s notable share in India’s total, and are worth mentioning. Gujarat’s contribution in those areas is as follows -
• 17% of Fixed Capital Investment
• 16% of Industrial output
• 22% of India's exports
• 16% of Value of Output
• 12% of Net Manufacturing Value
• 10% of Factories
• 98% of Soda Ash production
• 80% of Diamond Export
• 78% of Salt production
• 62% of Petrochemical production
• 53% of Crude Oil (Onshore)
• 51% of Chemical products
• 37% of Groundnut production
• 35% of Cargo Handling
• 31% of Cotton production
• 30% of Natural Gas (Onshore)
• 10% of Mineral production
• 25% of Textile production
• 35% of Pharmaceutical products

• The state registered 12.8% agriculture growth in the last five years against the national average of 2%
• Ten of the 25 richest Indians are Gujarati
• Some of the best business communities in India — Parsis, Jains, Memons, Banias, Khojas and Bohras — all speak Gujarati
• The fifth richest city in India (per capita) is now Ahmedabad, ahead of Bombay and Delhi, and miles ahead of Calcutta
• Ahmedabad is ranked 3rd in Policy Initiatives - Ahead of Bangalore, Chennai, Calcutta, Mumbai & Delhi. 4th in Manpower - Ahead of Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai & Delhi

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THIS NOTE WAS RESEARCHED AND CAREFULLY PUT TOGETHER BY A GUJARATI ON THE WONDERFUL OCCASION OF GUJARAT FOUNDATION DAY - 1st MAY 2011.