Investing is all about spotting right opportunity. Surendranagar is a place where big influx of people and big agricultural grow this envisaged that would ensure allround development of the district in this decade.

SURENDRANAGAR

One of the Fastest Growing Cities of

GUJARAT.

CONTENTS

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

DISTRICT PROFILE

- 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.

TALUKA’S OF SURENDRANAGAR

GEOGRAPHYArea 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-42degWinter (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.

ECONOMY PROFILE

- 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.

- 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.

AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE & ALLIED ACTIVITIES

- 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.- . Wheat, Jeera & Fennel seed (Valiari) are 3 main Rabi crops grown over an area of 132312 hectare (as per 2008 survey).

- 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 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2004-05

No. of Milk Co-Op. Societies 698 561 487 377 294

Annual Milk Collection in Kgs.

12.72 Crores

11.27 Crores 10.57 Crores 9.84 Crores 9.30 Crores

Avg. Milk Collection Per Day (Kgs.)

3,50,000 3,07,000 2,90,000 2,69,000 2,55,000

Sales Turnover 417 Crores 379 Crores 289 Crores 217 Crores  187 Crores

COTTONGINNING

COTTON GINNING INDUSTRIES

- 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.

CERAMIC INDUSTRIES

CERAMIC INDUSTRIES

- 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.

EDUCATION

- 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 indepen- dent 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.

TOURISM

- 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.

- 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.

- 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

TRIGGERING POINTS

- 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.

AVAILABILITY OF NARMADA WATER

- 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 Surendr- anagar 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.

- 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.

- 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.

URBANIZATION

-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.

- 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.

• 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.

GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES

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“

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.

PART OF GROWTH CENTER

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.

REASONABLE PROPERTY PRICE & LOW

REGISTRATION COST- 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.

- 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.

OTHER REASONS

There is a huge potential for investment for the people who are native of Surendranagar but residing out side Surendranagar because of following reasons:

High possibility of appreciation. Attachment with native. Reasonable current valuation. Belief in consistent development of Gujarat.

A SNAPSHOT OF UPCOMING PROJECTS IN

SURENDRANAGAR Makson group led by Shri Dhanjibhai Patel has got the in-principal approval from the State Govt. for its 1993 Acre Multi-Product 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.

A WORD FROM INDUSTRY LEADER

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