Anand

Anand is the administrative centre of Anand District in the state of Gujarat, India. It is administered by Anand Municipality. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Anand and Kheda districts.

Anand is known as Milk Capital of India. It became famous for Amul dairy and its milk revolution by the Amul trinity: Tribhuvandas Patel, Verghese Kurien and H. M. Dalaya.. This city hosts the Head Office of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, NDDB of India, well known business school - Institute of Rural Management Anand, Vidya Dairy and the Anand Agricultural University. Another famous educational hub is Vallabh Vidhyanagar, an educational suburb of Anand which has institutes like BVM, which is first engineering college of Gujarat, GCET ADIT and Sardar Patel University is home for around 50,000 students from all over India.