Government of Gujarat

Government of Gujarat
ગુજરાત સરકાર

Seat of Government	Gandhinagar
Legislative branch
Assembly	Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Shankar Chaudhary
Members in Assembly	182
Executive branch
Governor	Acharya Devvrat
Chief Minister	Bhupendrabhai Patel
Deputy Chief Minister	Harsh Sanghavi
Chief Secretary	Manoj Kumar Das, IAS
Judiciary branch
High Court	Gujarat High Court
Chief Justice	Sunita Agarwal

The Government of Gujarat, also known as Gujarat Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Gujarat and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive of the legislators appointed by the Governor of Gujarat, a judiciary and of a publicly elected legislative body.

Like other states in India, the head of state of Gujarat is the Governor, appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Central (Union) government. The governor's role is largely ceremonial, but the governor considers the legislative composition and appoints the Chief Minister, who is the main head of government, as chair of the Council of Ministers of Gujarat and is vested, in some instances alone but as to most executive powers by Council consensus with virtually all of the executive powers.

Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, houses the relevant Vidhan Sabha (also known as the Gujarat Legislative Assembly) and the secretariat. The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, has jurisdiction over the state as to state laws.^[1]

The present legislative assembly is unicameral, consisting of 182 Members of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.As). Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.^[2][3]

Local governments function at the basic level. It is the third level of government apart from union and state governments. It consists of panchayats in rural areas and municipalities in urban areas. They are elected directly or indirectly by the people. For administrative purposes, Gujarat is structurally divided into districts (Zilas), prants (subdivisions), talukas, and villages, primarily to facilitate land revenue administration. The state is divided into 34 districts, 122 prants, 265 talukas and 18,584 revenue villages.^[4][5][6]
There are 17 municipal corporations and 152 municipalities for urban governance, and 33 district panchayats, 247 taluka panchayats, and 16,778 gram panchayats for rural governance. Elections to these local bodies are held every five years for their members and councils.^{[7] [8][9][10]}

• Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad is an autonomous university established by Government of Gujarat.

For an exhaustive list, see List of agencies of the government of Gujarat.

• Politics of Gujarat

• Official Gujarat State Portal Archived 2023-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Chief Minister of Gujarat
• NIC, Gujarat State Centre