Vasna (Borsad INA) (sometimes spelled Wasna) is a town and an Industrial Notified Area of the
Borsad
Borsad is a town and a municipality in Anand district in the state of Gujarat, India. It is located around 17 km from Anand. It is surrounded by the fertile Charotar region which largely produces tobacco, bananas, cotton, barley and oth ...
municipality in
Anand district
Anand District is an administrative district of Gujarat state in western India and whose popular nickname is Charotar. It was carved out of the Kheda district in 1997. Anand is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is bounde ...
in the Western
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History
Vasna was the eponymous seat of a
princely state
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or Direct rule in India,
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, it was a fifth-class non-salute state in the colonial
Mahi Kantha Agency
Mahi Kantha was a political agency or collection of princely states in British India, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. In 1933, the states of the Mahi Kantha Agency, except for Danta, were included in the Western India States ...
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Population
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, Vasna Borsad INA had a population of 9000. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Vasna Borsad INA has an average literacy rate of 57%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 63%, and female literacy is 49%. In Vasna Borsad INA, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.
The population mainly survives on farming and agriculture, but in the last ten years many families have migrated from this village to cities and overseas. Vasna has the most NRI families out of the Chovis Gam Patidar Samaj.
Darmaj is a short distance away and Borsad is nearby, too.
Vasna has recently had proper sewage system put in place as well as having the most reliable mains power supply for a village. Other Chovis Gam territories don't have solid paving, even to this date, but Vasna, due to its overseas NRI population amounts, have had funding in place to provide this facility throughout the main parts of the village.
Places of interest
In the centre of the village there is a big house around three stories high, with a great Krishna Statue atop it, and this house can be seen from any rooftop in Vasna. This house was constructed in the late 1960s or early 1970s. There are also many temples which are popular attractions.
Trimandir: This temple has been built based on the non-sectarian concept developed by Param Pujya
Dada Bhagwan
Dada Bhagwan (7 November, 1908 – 2 January, 1988), also known as Dadashri, born Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, was a spiritual leader from Gujarat, India who founded the Akram Vignan Movement. He was religiously inclined from the early age. He worked ...
to demonstrate that the essence of all religions is the same, to achieve self-realisation. The temple has idols of Lord
Simandhar Swami
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, Lord Krishna (Vaishnavism), Lord Shiva (Shaivism) and other Gods and Goddesses, including the Tirthankars of Jainism.
Sports
Economy
Vitthalbhai Parshottambhai Patel was very good Sarpanch from 1992-2002 and after his son Chetankumar Vitthalbhai Patel Elis Pappubhai was Sarpanch from 2011-2018.
The pupils co-operative bank supports villagers studying abroad. And another bank is Bank of India. Directly in front of the Swaminarayan Mandir, are the homes of the Desaibhai Mangalbhai family. Most notably is Ravjibhai Desaibhai Mangalbhai Patel, who immigrated to America in the 1990s. He grew up in the village and recalls the days when kerosene lamps were prevalent. He would read his school books in the moonlight.
References
{{Anand district
Cities and towns in Anand district