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Dalit solidarity with Prof Teltumbde in Ahmedabad
CV News/ Saturday, February 09, 2019
As part of protests being held across India, several Dalit rights activists gathered in Ahmedabad to show solidarity in support of Prof Anand Teltumde, sought to be persecuted allegedly on "frivolous and unsubstantiated" charges, such as he sympathizes with Maoists, that he helped provoke violence at Bhima Ko...
Patients will get cashless treatments up to Rs. 5-lakh at 2600 hospita...
Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani today categorically stated that the state government is determined to provide healthy and long life to all of its citizens by covering them under world’s biggest health insurance scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat Yojna’ (ABY) launched by Government of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Mr. Narendrabhai Mo...
Gujarat, Central govt “mess” over poisonous Narmada waters...
CV News/ Sunday, February 10, 2019
Even as the Gujarat government is going ahead with Narmada Jubilee celebrations, Mother Narmada is allegedly facing it's worst-ever crisis. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in a statement says that after stopping Narmada water from big dams, the drinking water consumption was reduced, and now the rese...
Padma Shri nominee Abdul Gaforbhai Khatri
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani sent his greetings to this year’s Padma Shri award nominee of Abdul Gaforbhai Khatri of Ninona village in Kutch district for keeping alive the 300 years old intricate ‘Rogan’ art of cloth painting through family tradition.
The Chief Minister’s letter felicitating Gaforbhai on behalf of Gujarat Government and Pri...
Facebook page dedicated to farmers’ cause “hacked”, ...
CV News/ Wednesday, February 06, 2019
A Facebook page dedicated to farmer’s issues, problems, and knowledge has allegedly been hacked. The page was created in September 2014 to raise the voice of Gujarat farmers’ issues and problems. Its owner, Sipai Husen, claims, it has received more than 2 lakh likes, and it was growing at rapid rate in short...
47-lakh APL families to get 4-liter kerosene
Gujarat has decided to provide 4-liter of subsidies kerosene per ration-card to each APL family, who are without gas connection, through the public distribution system in the state from February - 2019.
The maximum 4-liter of kerosene would be provided to all APL Families, except those living in eight municipal corporations, of the state. The dec...
RKBY to ensure coverage to farmer’s loans and crops by 18 company
Back in 1999, the government introduced the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS) or the Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana (RKBY) to ensure coverage to farmer’s loans and crops.
The scheme did not get off to a good start, lying dormant for a long time and later on being
selectively employed to cater to the political motivations of some politici...
Gujarat IAS cadre ex-bureaucrat regrets poor state performance in educ...
Former state health commissioner Dr Amarjit Singh, Gujarat cadre IAS, made a civil society consultation in Ahmedabad an occasion to come down heavily on Gujarat's performance in social sector. Quoting official data, he suggested that, despite economic growth, Gujarat remains one of the worst performers in the social sector. Not only does the state ...
Mental illness: Gujarat’s vulnerable sections “forced̶...
Counterview Desk
A recent scrutiny into the state of public health in Gujarat by a voluntary organisation, Sahaj, with the help of two dozen-odd activists and experts, has found that things are particulalry bad with regard to mental healthcare for the backward sections of society. Offering four case studies, it says, there is, in fact, "no public ...
Union Minister of State Jashwantsinh Bhabhor compliment Gujarat for be...
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today inaugurated the 1 st Rashtriya
Adivasi Kala Mahotsav-2019 at Dahod, considered as the eastern gateway of Gujarat.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that promoting tribal art in India and abroad is the best
way for the conservation of tribal skill and talent; the Central Government and Gujarat
Government are doi...
Sanjeli and Jhalod new taluka bhavans
Rs4.80-cr Sanjeli and Jhalod new taluka bhavans dedicated to people
Gujarat Chief Minister lays stone of Rs2.50cr memorial to tribal freedom
fighter Guru Govind at Karath-Kamboi, Rs.3.20cr Kedarnath temple
Ahmedabad, Sunday: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today laid the foundation stone
of district tourism development works of a memorial t...
Relocation of crocodiles from Narmada dykes for tourism safety “...
Counterview Desk
In a letter to the Union environment, forests and climate change minister, senior officials of the ministry under him and their Gujarat counterparts, including chief minister Vijay Rupani, top Vadodara-based environmentalist Rohit Prajapati has demanded that the government must immediately stop translocation of the crocodiles from...
HIGHLIGHTS OF BUDGET 2019.
Within 2 years, Tax assessment will be done electronically
2. IT returns processing in just 24 hours
3. Minimum 14% revenue of GST to states by Central Govt.
4. Custom duty has abolished from 36 Capital Goods
5. Recommendations to GST council for reducing GST rates for home buyers
6. *Full Tax rebate upto 5 lakh annual income after all deduc...
Book with 150 Gandhi quotations released in Ahmedabad
CV News/ Wednesday, January 30, 2019
'Gandhi Bolechhe' (Gandhi Speaks), a book containing Mahatma Gandhi's 150 quotations, was released on Wednesday in three languages – Gujarati, Hindi and English. Released by Kumarpal Desai, well-known Gujarati writer and padmashree awardee, and senior social activist Indukumar Jani, the quotations in the book...
South Gujarat tribal rights body seeks special state assembly discussi...
CV News/ Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The South Gujarat-based civil rights organization, Adivasi Kisan Sangharsh Morcha (AKSM), has asked 27 tribal legislators of Gujarat to demand a special discussion in the Gujarat state assembly, whose session begins on February 18. AKSM convener Romel Sutariya, in a statement, has said that the issue has become...