Vallabh Vidhyanagar - Specialities

Specialities

Some specialities of Vallabh Vidyanagar are:

• A university named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of India.
• A Regional Library in Mathematics catering to the needs of the Western Region of India set up by the NBHM (National Board for Higher Mathematics), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
• Charutar Vidya Mandal that had a former Finance Minister, late Shri H.M. Patel, as its president.
• The town that had a municipality president who would once become a Finance Minister.
• A university that has an FM radio station (there were only two such universities in India as of September 2005).
• The university that is covered under the Edusat, a UGC Scheme of Nationwide Live Lectures using a satellite.
• Has the oldest engineering college, Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyalaya. This was inaugurated by Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
• Vidyanagar Nature Club, working since 1988 for environment education, awareness and protection, a leading NGO in Anand district that is registered Public Charitable Trust, located in Vallabh Vidyanagar and is responsible for well-protected trees and its pollution-free atmosphere.
• V V Nagar has more than 80 species of trees planted on roadside; it has perhaps highest numbers of trees in the state of Gujarat in such a small area.
• Town has largest colony (habitat) of rose-ringed parakeet (Suda); last count was in 2003-4 was of more than 63,000 parakeets.

• Gunatit Jyot the women wing of the Gunatit Samaj is based in Vallabh Vidyanagar under guidance from P.P. Pappaji.
• First educational website of the town is vvnLive.com.
• Another upcomig website for complete view on the town is .