| Voice of Patan : Parth
Charitable Trust
Following are the social and developmental challenges of the district:
Increasing practice of alcoholism among men is leading to rise in
many social evils like beating women etc.
Lack of technical knowledge related to agriculture and animal husbandry
among the farmers.
Literacy rate for girls starts declining after their primary education.
As for secondary education they are required to travel far from
their homes. So the parents prefer in making them sit at home and
work.
Patan District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 5730.4 Km2
Population in Patan (Census 2011)
Total Population : 1,342,746
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 35236
In seeing : 18218
In speech : 1912
In hearing : 2510
In movement : 9899
Mental : 2697
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 318
Sex Ratio Rank : 256
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 260 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 369 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Brief About Patan District
About The District
Patan is a city in Gujarat state of western India. It is the administrative
seat of the District of the same name.
History
Patan is an ancient fortified town, founded in
746 by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda Kingdom.
He named the city Anhilpur Patan after his close friend and Prime
Minister Anhil. The city was also known as Anhilwara in the Middle
Ages. Patan enjoyed a privileged status of capital of Gujarat, for
about 600 years from 746 to 1411. The major Rajput clans of Chavdas
(746-942), Solankis (942-1244) and Vaghelas (1244-1304) ruled the
Hindu Kingdom of Gujarat from Patan. Historian Tertius Chandler
estimates that Anhilwara was the tenth-largest city in the world
in the year 1000, with a population of approximately 100,000. Muhammad
of Ghor attacked the city in the 1180's, but was rebuffed by the
Solankis; Muhammed's general (and later Sultan of Delhi) Qutb-ud-din
Aybak sacked the city between 1200 and 1210, and it was destroyed
by the sultans in 1298. After the collapse of the Delhi Sultanate
at the end of the 14th century Gujarat became an independent Sultanate,
and Sultan Ahmed Shah moved the capital to Patan. The modern town
of Patan later sprung up near the ruins of Anhilwara, and contains
many Jain temples. Patan was part of the Maratha state of Baroda
from the mid-eighteenth century until India's independence in 1947,
when Baroda became part of Bombay state, which in 1960 was separated
into Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Current Presently,
Patan is home to the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat
University. Patan is a prominent medical centre in the north Gujarat
with almost 200 practicing medical professionals. Patan serves as
a central market place for local farmers. Patan is also a tourist
destination with a rich religious and cultural history and landmarks.
Patan has numerous Hindu and Jain temples as well as Muslim mosques.
References Chandler, Tertius. 1987. Four Thousand
Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census. St. David's University
Press.
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