Education
Bhavnagar is known for pioneering and laudable efforts in the fields of rural, children's as well as women's education. Nanabhai Bhatt, Gijubhai Badheka, Manbhai Bhatt (Founder of Shishuvihar), Harbhai Trivedi, Gijubhai Badheka, and Taraben Modak were the pioneers who experimented and sowed new trends in rural and children's education. Nanbhai's institutions of Dakshinamurti at Bhavnagar, Gram Dakshinamurti at Amala, and Lokbharti at Sanosara have prepared three generations of brilliant workers and leaders engaged in reshaping village India. Gijubhai's Dakshinamurti became the cradle of children's education and charted a new direction in the field. Harbhai Trivedi pioneered a similarly new trend in secondary education and his Home School became a model for contemporary educators in Western India.Liberal women's education was born in Bhavnagar through the efforts of another illustrious educator-social reformer Amrutlal Dani. Sheth J. P. Govt. Ayurved College is one of the colleges of the well-known Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar that offers BAMS (Ayurvedacharya) course (35 seats per year). The college is situated in Vadva area and is named after Sheth Jivandas Prabhudas. Tapibai Ayurvedic Hospital which is the district level Ayurvedic hospital is part of this college.
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