Prantij is a city and a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Sabarkantha district

Sabarkantha district

Sabarkantha is a district in Northeast of Gujarat state of India.-Geography:The administrative headquarters of the district is Himmatnagar, about 80 km from Ahmedabad....

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Gujarat.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Prantij had a population of 22,306. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Prantij has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 62%. In Prantij, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Personality

Maganbhai Patel from Prantij had been elected as a member of parliament of India. He was living at Himmatnagar.He just died last year 2010.