Gandhinagar District is an administrative division of Gujarat, India. Its headquarters are at Gandhinagar, which is the state capital. The district consists of Gandhinagar, including 3 suburbs namely Chandkheda, Motera, Adalaj and 3 tehsils, namely Kalol INA, Dehgam and Mansa and 216 other villages. Gandhinagar shares its borders with Sabarkantha District on the northeast, with Kheda on the southeast, with Ahmedabad on the southwest and with Mehsana on the northwest.

Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Gandhingar have the top population in Gujaarat and they are also the commercial heart of Gujarat and Western india. Gandhinagar is connected to Ahmedabad by the Sartej-Gandhinagar highway and with Vadodara with the Ahmedabad-Vadodara highway. Gandhinagar city is a well planned city like Chandigarh. It has 30 sectors and each sector is of 1 km in length and width as well. A primary school, a secondary school, a higher secondary school, a medical dispensary, a shopping center and a maintenance office are there in each sector. The famous Akshardham Temple is located in sector: 20 of Gandhinagar. It is a very beautiful Hindu Temple.

Gandhinagar History

The ruler of Shertha town in the 13th century was king Pethasinh of Pethappur. The Sultanate of Patan used this land as a battle ground after the death of Pethasinh. Sultan Ahmed Shah made a decision of moving his capital from Patan to a new city. Thus he built Ahmedabad. Bombay state was broken up into two different states, namely, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Ahmedabad was made the capital of Gujarat. A new capital city was decided to build on the land, which was once a part of Pethapur.

The citys infrastructure was completed in 1970. Until 1980, Gandhinagar, was known as Gandhian City, as it was based on Gandhis concepts and principles. It was also known as Unpolluted city between 190 and 1090, when there was a low pollution there. Then city became the Green City after 1990, when many trees were planted. In 2002, Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, proposed a new triple focus for the city. It was that the city should be green. It should utilize solar energy and it should be cosmopolitan.

Gandhinagar Climate

Gandhinagar has a monsoon climate. It has three main seasons  summer, monsoon and winter. Apart from the monsoon season, the climate remains generally dry and hot. The weather is hot from March to June. The maximum temperature remains in the range of 36 C to 42 C. The minimum temperature remains between 19 C to 27 C. From November to February the weather remains cool, but not cold and the climate remains extremely dry. The average maximum temperature stays around 29 C. The average minimum temperature is 14 C. From mid-June to mid-September, the southeast monsoon brings a humid climate. 803.4 is the average annual rainfall more or less.

Gandhinagar Culture

Most of the communities of Ahirs started to sell ghee and milk. Now at present they are spread all over the place. Gujarat also manufactures terracotta work, especially votive terra-cotta figurines. The figurines are placed in small shrines in forests, along roads, outside villages, on lonely hill tops and under large trees, especially in south Gujarat.

Gandhinagar Tourism

Tourist places in Gandhinagar
Akshardham Temple
Adalaj Stepwell
Sarita Udyan
Deer Park (Indroda Park
Punitvan
Craftsmen's Village
Mahatma Mandir