| Voice of Anand : Shakeel
Bohra
· The quality of education is very poor.
· Sanitation is very poor.
· Women literacy is very low.
· School drop out rate is very high
· Women need to be empowered. This will improve their socio
economic condition...
Anand District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 2940.8 Km2
Population in Anand (Census 2011)
Total Population : 2,090,276
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 38678
In seeing : 16691
In speech : 2769
In hearing : 2633
In movement : 12430
Mental : 4155
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 404
Sex Ratio Rank : 186
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 235 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 129 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Anand District Information
Anand is known as the Milk Capital of India. It became famous for
Amul dairy and its Milk revolution.
As of 2001 census, Anand had a population of 130,462. Males constitute
52% of the population and females 48%. Anand has an average literacy
rate of 80%, higher than the national average of 59.5% (55% of the
males and 45% of females literate). 11% of the population is under
6 years of age.
But, when one talks of living life king-size, no
district can beat Anand "placed in the land of milk and tobacco"
with most of its houses having members staying abroad. The district
has the highest number of households where people stay in houses
with six or more rooms, the percentage being 2.2. It also tops the
chart in having the most number of houses with five rooms with 1.8
per cent of houses surveyed showing the trend, pushing cities like
Anand (1.7 per cent) and Vadodara (1.6 per cent) in the second and
third slots respectively.
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