Tankara

Tankara ટંકારા
—  city  —
Tankara Location in Gujarat, India
Coordinates: 22.66°N 70.73°E / 22.66; 70.73
Country	India
State	Gujarat
District	Rajkot
Population
• Total	18,000
Languages
• Official	Gujarati, Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	363650
Telephone code	02822
Vehicle registration	GJ-3

Tankara is a town in Rajkot district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is situated on the river of Demi, 20 kilometres from Morbi, 40 kilometres from Rajkot and 80 kilometres from Jamnagar.

Tankara is holy land and the birthplace of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj.

Industry

Tankara is famous for quality cotton bales production (sankar-6) - and there are around 25 to 30 cotton ginning factories and many cotton oil mills. Tankara is 4th largest business center in the field of cotton oil mill & ginning industries in Saurashtra and 5th in Gujarat. The Industry is the fastest growing in this region.

It is also, one of major centres for silver imitation jewellery manufacturing.

Tankara has been facing many basic infrastructure related problem such as:

• Haven't set up G.I.D.C. yet,
• Taluka level court,
• Water shortage in summer,
• Lack of public transportation - very needs of 4-lane/6-lane road & Broad Gauges train connection between Morbi & Rajkot.

Hospitals

In Tankara Health services are primarily provided at government hospital and many private hospitals like SREE Dental Clinic (Gujarati: શ્રી ડેન્ટલ ક્લિનિક) at Tankara Chokadi.

List Of Villages in Tankara

• Amrapar (tol)
• Anandpar
• Bangavadi
• Bedi
• Bhutkotda
• Chhattar
• Devaliya
• Dhroliya
• Ganeshpar
• Ghunada
• Khanpar
• Hadala
• Hadmatiya
• Hamirpar
• Harbatiyali
• Haripar
• Hirapar
• Jabalpur
• Jivapartankara
• Jodhpar (zala)
• Kagdadi
• Kalyanpur
• Khakhra
• Kothariya
• Lajai
• Lakhdhir Gadh
• Mahendrapur
• Meghpar Zala
• Mitana
• Mota Khijadiya
• Nana Khijadiya
• Nana Rampar
• Nasitpar
• Neknam
• Nesda
• Khanpar
• Nesda
• Surji
• Otala
• Rajavad
• Rohishala
• Sajanpar
• Sakhpar
• Saraya
• Savdi
• Tankara
• Tol
• Umiyanagar
• Vachhakpar
• Vaghgadh
• Vijaynagar
• Virpar
• Virvav