This document provides an overview of the district of Surendranagar in Gujarat, India. It discusses the district's geography, economy, population, and key industries. The availability of water from the Narmada Canal is triggering growth in the district by enabling expanded agriculture and greater urbanization. Surendranagar has potential for continued development due to initiatives to improve infrastructure, lower land prices, and its designation as a growth center by the government. The district is expected to experience ongoing investment and population migration from rural to urban areas.

4. PART -1 . INTRODUCTION
 District Profile
 Geography
 Economy Profile – Agriculture, Industries & Services
PART -2 . TRIGGERING POINTS
 Availability of Narmada Water
 Growing Urbanization
 Government Initiatives
 Part of Growth Center
 Reasonable Property Price
 Other Reasons

5. - Surendranagar is one of the 33 administrative districts in the
state of Gujarat in India.
- The district comprises of 10 Taluka’s.
- The district has a population of approximately 18 Lakhs.
- The combined population of Surendranagar – Wadhwan (Twin
Cities) is 3.5 Lakhs as per 2011 census.
- It is 10th most populated city of Gujarat.
- Surendranagar is also known as Zalawad, as the city of
Surendranagar was ruled by Zala Rajputs.

7. Area
10,489 sq.km
Density
171 per sq.km
Location
Strategically located between Ahmadabad and Rajkot. It is
100km away from both the cities.
Rainfall
760mm
Temperature
Summer(March to May) minimum 25deg-42deg
Winter (November-February) minimunm15deg-35deg.
Eco-system
Ranges from deserts, scrublands, grasslands, deciduous forests,
and wetlands to mangroves, coral reefs, estuaries, and gulfs
and world renowned sites for Migratory Birds and Wild-Ass.
Taluka
Wadhwan, Muli, Sayala, Limbadi, Chotila, Chuda, Lakhtar,
Dasada, Halwad and Dhrangadhra.
Literacy Rate
85% of Surendranagar city.
River
Bhogavo.

9. - The economy of Surendranagar is an ideal combination
of Agriculture, Industry & Services.
- Surendranagar is the second fastest developing city of
Gujarat.
- Surendranagar is a Hub for cotton ginning, ceramic
industry, food processing industries and other segments
like confectionery, textile bearings, auto parts, fasteners,
ceramics, sanitary-ware, pharmaceuticals, soda ash,
bromine, chemicals & plastics have developed to a great
extent. And to add to its Kitty… it has highest
number of Solar Power Projects, Appox. 126 projects, in
pipeline in the entire state owing to its geographical
location.

10. - Apart from industrial sector. There has been an
exponential growth in the number of educational
institutes in Surendranagar recently, which is
attracting large investment and provides large
employment.
- There are 8,639 SSI units registered in the
district.
- Wadhwan taluka has witnessed maximum
number of SSI units with HEALTHY INVESTMENT.
- Several known industrial groups are present in
Surendranagar in the field of Agro-Processing,
Pharmaceuticals & Textile Engineeing.

12. - Total geographical area of the district is about 10,45,828 hectares,
out of which 7,04,700 hectares of land are under cultivation. It means
67% of land area is under cultivation.
- However, only 32,400 hectares (4%) are sown more than once in a
year and balance area are sown only once in a year (as per 2008
survey).
- Cotton, Ground nut, Bajara, Sesame, Castor and Pulse are 6 main
Kharif Crops grown over an area of 617248 Hectare.
- Cotton is the main crop covering 66.31% of area under Kharif Crop.
-Surendranagar produces 35 lakhs cotton bales out of 120 lakhs bales
produced in Gujarat.
-. heat, Jeera & Fennel seed (Valiari) are 3 main Rabi crops grown
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over an area of 132312 hectare (as per 2008 survey).

13. - Apart from Agriculture, Dairy industry has seen a phenomenal
growth over a last decade, resulting into spurt in income of rural
economy and consequent increase in their spending. Further, it is
biggest sector offering self-employment to more than 1.50 lacs
rural population of the District with symmetrical distribution of
income.
PARTICULARS
2012-13
No. of Milk CoOp. Societies
698
Annual Milk
Collection in
12.72 Crores
Kgs.
Avg. Milk
Collection Per
3,50,000
Day (Kgs.)
Sales Turnover
417 Crores
2011-12
2010-11
2009-10
2004-05
561
487
377
294
11.27 Crores
10.57 Crores
9.84 Crores
9.30 Crores
3,07,000
2,90,000
2,69,000
2,55,000
379 Crores
289 Crores
217 Crores
187 Crores

15. - Surendranagar is a hub of cotton ginning activities in India, with a
large number of ginning and pressing units.
- It is one of the largest producers of quality Shankar cotton is State.
- The Surendranagar Cotton Oil and Oilseeds Association Ltd. Is first
Cotton Future Trading Exchange in the World.

17. - Surendranagar has rich reserves of silica sand, fire clay, white clay
and moulding sand, the basic raw materials for ceramic industries.
- Thangadh an industrial town of Surendranagar is the ceramic hub
of all India.
- There are almost 300 ceramic units in this town.
- The ceramic units employ several thousand unskilled workers in
the region.
- PNG gas is now made available through a pipeline, to all the
Industries.
-Because of abundant raw material and uninterrupted gas supply,
the prise of the ceramic products are very attractive.

19. - Surendranagar is considered one of the Biggest Educational Hub of
Gujarat.
- Surendranagar has second highest number of educational institutes
in ration of population of the city.
- The Government has recently granted the recognition of independent university comprising of 17 different colleges.
- It has Medical, Pharmacy, Engineering, Management, Polytechnic,
B.E.D, Arts, Commerce and Science colleges.
- In addition to Government schools many private schools are open
for SSC, ICSE and CBSE.
- Large number of students from other cities of Gujarat and other
states are getting education from Surendranagar.
-Recently State Govt. has granted the University status to educational
institutions managed by Vardhman Bharti Trust. i.e, C.U.Shah Uni.

21. -Tarnetar is famous for its fair, popularly known as the
Trinetreshwar Mahadev Mela (Fair), held near the Trinetreshwar
Mahadev temple. The fair also attracts a large number of tourists
from India and abroad. More than 500,000 people visit the fair
during its three days.
- Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary is a 100 sq.km. bird sanctuary located
on the border between Ahmedabad and Surendranagar and attracts
over 210 species of birds during the four months of winter
-Chotila Hill, located approx 60 km from Surendranagar city, is a
place for the worship of Chamunda Mataji. Thousands of pilgrims
walk as far as 300 km to this place. The main business in Chotila is
the production of pure ghee from the milk of the huge numbers of
livestock here.

22. - In the following slides we have elaborated the possible growth
factors of Surendranagar district. The growth of the district will
provide an opportunity to earn good return on investment in
Surendranagar.

23. - The availability of Narmada Water through 104km long canal from
Kadi (Mahesana) to Surendranagar has proved to be the life line for
the Surendranagar district.
It has solved two major problems of Surendranagar district
namely Drinking water supply and irrigation facility to farmers.
- Under Narmada canals 650 villages and 7 towns including Surendranagar city is covered for drinking water supply As per the progress
report July 2012, 469 villages and 6 towns are receiving drinking
water from Narmada Canal.

24. - Green Revolution: The agricultural activities in Surendranagar
district were largely dependent on rain. Only 4% of the lands were
sown more than once in a year because of lack of water supply.
However, the situation has changed drastically in last 2 years, due
to availability of Narmada water. It is expected that more than 8
lakh hectares of land will receive water from Narmada canal which
enables Surendranagar to emerge as a Capital of Agriculture based
economic revolution. The study conducted by the Prestigious
Hydrabad based Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy (IRAP)
says the Gross cropped area per farmer has gone up drastically in
area where the Narmada water have reached.

25. - The availability of Narmada water has enabled the farmers of
Surendranagar district to take more than one crop in a year and
improve the yield of the crop per hectare.
- The results of Narmada water are already witnessed in
Surendranagar district as the District has emerged largest producer
of Cumin seed (Jeera) and has become the only district in
Saurashtra region where land area under Rabi crop increase by 41%
in the year 2012-13.

27. -Urbanization is an inevitable part of a country’s economic
evolution. Gujarat is one of the fastest growing state of India. As
per census 2011, 42.5% population of Gujarat state are living in the
urban area whereas only 28% population of Surendranagar district
are living in the urban area. As per the report of McKinsey & Co. on
Urbanization growth in India, released in 2010 says that by 2030
more than 66% of total population of Gujarat will live in urban area.
-Urbanization in Surendranagar is far below than current state
average and expected percentage of urbanization by Mckinsey &
Co. in their report left the large scope of growth of the city as
Surendranagar is the only biggest city of district.

28. - Main reason of high growth of urbanization in Surendranagar is
the migration of people from rural area to city area because of
following reasons,
• Education: Increasing the importance of education among the rural
people influence them to migrate from rural area to urban area.
Surendranagar is considered the qualitative educational hub of
Saurashtra
region.
Recently
Government
has
granted
the recognition of independent university to Surendranagar.
• Owing to phenomenal growth in Dairy Industry over a last decade,
resulting into spurt in income of rural economy and consequent
increase in their spending for better living standards, better
education and medical facilities have been a major factor
contributing to Urban growth.

29. • Life style: Increase in per capita income of people living in rural
area in Surendranagar district mainly because of availability of
Narmada water influence the people to migrate from rural area to
urban area to enjoy the city life.
• Employment opportunity: Urban area offers higher employment
opportunity compare to rural area which will also influence the
people to migrate from rural area to urban area.
- One of the survey indicates that this migration is predominantly
within district and within states and only 20 to 25 percent of
migration is across state boundaries.

30. The growth of any city depends upon it's infrastructure and
town planning. In order to develop the sustainable
infrastructure of Surendranagar, Government has formed the
independent development authority "SWUDA" (Surendranagar
Wadhwan Urban Development Authority). This authority will
look after the development of city and adjoining villages that
have potential for urbanization in the foreseeable future.
includes town planning, water supply, drainage facility, road and
development of new ring road around the city area. City like
Ahmadabad, Surat has witnessed the fastest growth of
infrastructure post the formation of "AUDA" and "SUDA“

31. The government has identified Surendranagar-Wadhwan as
twin city as both are coming closer to each other. The Gujarat
infrastructure development board has completed the study to
jointly develop basic infrastructure facilities of both the cities.
The Government has also identified six other cities as twin cities.

32. Surendranagar is tier 4 city with the population below
5lakhs. Mckinsey & Co. in their report predicted that India will
witness the highest future growth from tier 3 and tier 4 cities.

33. - The price of real estate in Surendranagar city and surrounding
area is comparatively reasonable than other districts of Gujarat.
The ratable value (Circle Rates) at which the stamp duty is
levied may be the lowest in the state .
- The low document value attracts many investors to invest their
non-taxed income.

34. - Moreover, given the availability of basic infrastructure like:
Availability of Pan India Railway network, Connectivity to
National Highways, proximity to the biggest Ports - Kandla and
Mundra, just 1 hour distance from Sanand - house to major
automobiles mfg companies like TATA and FORD and Hansalpur
- where Maruti has commenced work for its Plant; availability of
Cheaper land in bulk, Zero Industrial Unrest would make Small
and Medium Industries more viable as compared to big cities.

35. There is a huge potential for investment for the people who
are native of Surendranagar but residing out side
Surendranagar because of following reasons:
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High possibility of appreciation.
Attachment with native.
Reasonable current valuation.
Belief in consistent development of Gujarat.

36.  Makson group led by Shri Dhanjibhai Patel has got the inprincipal approval from the State Govt. for its 1993 Acre MultiProduct SEZ near Lakhtar Taluka of Surendranagar.
 Sun Shine Group led by Shri Prakashbhai Varmora has got
approvals for 101 Acre Industrial Park at Dedadara Village on
Surendranagar- Ahmedabad Highway and has proposed to
develop Industrial Park of 300 acres in phased manner.
 Owing to the favourable policies of State and Central Govts.
a number of Textile Spinning Industries are coming up in the
district as the district is the leading producer of Cotton in the
country.

39. From:
Prakash Varmora
Pulin Trivedi
Manish Shah
Naresh Kella
Kishorsinh Zala
Gunjan Shah
Kamlesh Rawal
Tejas Varmora
Ankit Patel