Vadodara’s Central Fire Station, famously known as Agni Shanti Kendra, is situated near Sursagar Lake. The station was inaugurated on March 30, 1953, by the then Prime Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Sutariya. Arvind Rai Keshavlal Vaishnav served as the first chief fire officer of Vadodara’s Fire Brigade. For his outstanding service, Arvindrai Vaishnav was awarded the President’s Medal on January…
March 2016
Situated between Platform No. 7 & Pandya Bridge is a huge red building, which once was a Shed, for the Royal Saloons of the then Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III. This tall building was standing as a testament to the old ties of the princely State of Baroda and the Railways. The Building : The building was built around 1880’s was…
The anthem of The Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) was composed by the renowned Prof. Chandravadan Mehta and approved by Smt. Hansa Mehta, who was the Vice Chancellor at that time. Traditionally written in the Devanagari script, the anthem is in the Gujarati language. Here is the text of the anthem: अमे वड़ोदराना विध्यापीठना सपना सारवनाराअमे ज्योत जलावी सृष्टि नवली सहसा…