Sathamba
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Title:SathambaType:Village
Coordinates: 23°9'26"N 73°19'4"E Map
Relative location: Sathamba, Taluka: Bayad, District: Sabarkantha, Gujarat State, India
India
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Population: 15000 approx.
Religions: Hindu
Hindu
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(approx. 85%), Muslim
Muslim
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, Others
Education: Higher-secondary school (Commerce/Science stream)
Local government system: Gram Panchayat
Gram panchayat
Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...
Communication facilities: Telephones, Mobile phone, Internet via (BSNL, Vodafone
Vodafone Essar
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, Airtel
Bharti Airtel
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, Reliance India Mobile
Reliance Communications
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Transportation facility: Road transport (15 km equidistant from state highway 59 (west) and 5 (east)
Sathamba is a small village of Bayad taluka of Sabarkantha district in Gujarat state of India. It has approximately 15000 population. Major source of income for families is agriculture. Quarry & Stone Crushing business is well grown around 15 km belt of village with more than 30 Quarry industries. Sathamba used to have well known functional Cotton Ginning & Pressing Factory few years before, which is now (2007) running with marginal profit following consecutive 4-5 years droughts.
In the news
Sonal Shah (The 44th US president-elect Barack ObamaBarack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
's presidential transition team member) has her native roots from a village named, Gabat which is one of the closest neighborhood area of Sathamba.,
Sathamba is also known the native place of Rajan Joshi,
History
Sathamba was a Princely state of Bombay before independence of IndiaIndian independence movement
The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
with Kingship of Thakore Shree Sursinjee and Thakore Shree Ratansinhji. State even had its own currency in form of aana and rupee, forms of Indian rupee
Indian rupee
The Indian rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India....
