{"id":7036,"date":"2022-11-01T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:06:08","slug":"morbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/morbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Morbi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Morbi is a major hub of small and medium industry and India&#8217;s ceramics factory.<\/li>\n<li>The more than a century old bridge across the Machchhu river has long been a major tourist attraction.<\/li>\n<li>Morbi district was created on August 15, 2013, along with several other new districts.<\/li>\n<li>This district is flanked by Kutch district in the north, Surendranagar district in the east, Rajkot district in the south, and Jamnagar district in the west.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ceramic industry:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Morbi is famous for its ceramic industry.<\/li>\n<li>The district is dotted by several hundred ceramic producing factories, mainly medium and small scale units.<\/li>\n<li>Around 70 per cent of India\u2019s ceramics are produced in Morbi, and ceramic tiles manufactured here are exported to countries in the Middle East, East Asia, and Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The major competition to the Morbi ceramic industry comes only from China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Machchhu:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Machchhu is a small river that rises in the Madla Hills and flows 130 km into the Rann of Kutch.<\/li>\n<li>In 1979, a major tragedy occurred after a dam on the river failed, inundating Morbi town and killing a large number of people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The \u2018Jhulto Pul\u2019 on the river:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The suspension bridge, \u201cJhulto Pul\u201d, was a pedestrian suspension bridge that was inaugurated in 1879, during the reign of Sir Waghji Ravaji, the Thakur Sahib of Morbi (1858-1922).<\/li>\n<li>Sir Waghji is credit with planning and building the entire city of Morbi, which included India\u2019s first art deco palace, and a European-style central square known as Green Chowk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/morbi-tragedy-river-bridge-8240531\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morbi is a major hub of small and medium industry and India&#8217;s ceramics factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}