About Vitthal Udyognagar Industries Association
VUIA is an Association of Industries located in Vitthal Udyognagar, adjoining to Vallabh Vidyanagar Township in Charotar area of Anand district in Gujarat State.
Having observed that youth from rural areas of not only Charotar but all over India migrate to cities in pursuit of higher education, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who hailed from Karasmad village of Charotar inspired late Shri Bhailalbhai Patel, popularly know as “Bhaikaka” and Bhikhabhai Patel to take in hand a project to establish a center of higher education in rural area of Charotar. Thus came into being the educational township of Vallabh Vidyanagar, which is now the seat of Sardar Patel University. Vallabh Vidyanagar, the education township named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the First Deputy Prime Minister of independent India and the architect of its integration, can today boast of almost every faculty providing education from K. G. to Ph.D. Level.
Shri H. M. Patel, I.C.S. Retd. Former Finance Minister of India, who took over reins of the Educational Institution – Charotar Vidya Mandal from late Shri Bhaikaka in 1958–59 realised that youth of Charotar would continue to migrate, albeit few years after graduation to the cities in search of jobs.
He therefore conceived the project of establishing an industrial estate near the educational township of Vallabh Vidyanagar and named it after another illustrious son of Charotar – the first Indian Chairman of the Central Legislative Council during the British regime – Shri Vitthalbhai Patel, the elder brother of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
Shri H. M. Patel invited leading Industrialists of Charotar, who had their industries in Mumbai and elsewhere to come to Vallabh Vidyanagar and establish their units. He promised them all possible help in procuring principal infrastructure facilities such as Land, Power and Water. It was in response to his invitation that large units like Elecon Engineering Company Limited, Gujarat Manufacturing Company Limited, were established in this area. Shri H.M.Patel had initially planned the establishment of a private sector company known as “Vitthal Udyognagar Industrial Development Company Private Limited”, but after the formation of separate State of Gujarat on 1st May 1960 Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation was formed which took over the work of development of the industrial Estate of Vitthal Udyognagar.
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