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Differently abled 16,375 voters are real champions of democracy
60-year-old Premdas Prajapati, a prgana chakshu (blind) since very early infant age, is a champion of democracy in real sense with his deeper understanding to cast his vote to participate in the festival of democracy (elections) for the 17 th Lok Sabha to be held in Gujarat on April 23.
“Though I am blind, still, I have deeper understanding to val...
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, AMC
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, and Amdavad Municipal Corporation in view of Dangerously Very High COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and zero DO (Dissolved Oxygen) levels observed in the water of Sabarmati River. It is now known and admitted reality that untreated and poorly treated ind...
21 assembly seats in Ahmedabad 719 centenarian voters
By Himanshu Upadhyay Ahmedabad, March 28, 2019: With age their bodies have become fragile but their mind and spirit are still as strong as ‘Vajra’ to urge them to participate in the greatest festival of democracy called ‘Election’ as over 700 centenarian voters from Ahmedabad city and district are eager to cast their votes in the forthcoming...
Sabarmati for120 km stretch is dead, releasing industrial effluents
Several civil society organisations led by Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS), Vadodara, in close coordination with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board have released reports'on joint investigations by pollution levels in the prime water source of Ahmedabad District, Sabarmati river, finding their condition disastrous.
The reports note that Sabarmati...
ODF+ status? Ahmedabad’s 14% slumdwellers defecate in the open: ...
CV News/ Saturday, March 09, 2019 The Government of India may have “upgraded” Ahmedabad to “open defecation free (ODF) plus” status, following a third party audit “certifying” that the city has “hygienic and usable public toilets”. But a recent survey by the civil rights organization, Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC), has revealed th...
PDS biometric validation pushing Ahmedabad’s slumdwellers to sta...
CV News/ Saturday, March 09, 2019
Days are not far off when Gujarat’s business capital Ahmedabad would be added to the list of places, led by Jharkhand’s rural areas, where failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication led to 25 of 45 starvation deaths across India since 2017.
Ahmedabad-based NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) s...
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...
Rs.200-cr to start 2,000 startups by 2022
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated the 21 st national
convention of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) at L.D. College of Engineering
here today. He took keen interest while going round the exhibits set up by the stalls.
Nearly 10,000 students and youth from across India are participating in 70-odd
competitions, besides ...
Ahmedabad not open defecation free, visit slums near Gandhi Ashram to ...
CV News/ Saturday, January 19, 2019
Gujarat’s grassroots organization working among the Valmiki community, Manav Garima, has disputed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) claim that the city has become open defecation free. In a statement, Manav Garima convener Parsottam Vaghela has said that one has only to visit the slum area along the Chan...
The world-class SVP Hospital, Institute of Medical Science open
Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi dedicated the 1,500-bed world- class environment-friendly Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (SVP) Institute of Medical Science & Research built by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) at a cost of Rs.750-crore here today.
Speaking on the occasion, he wished this super-specialty hospital would provide better
medica...
Open 12-day Shopping Festival in Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi today inaugurated the first-ever multi-locational 12-day Shopping Festival in Ahmedabad.
Speaking on the occasion, he said the Ahmedabad city is making giant strides from a
modest trade centre selling cheap goods at weekly Gurjari haat to an industrial hub. When
small traders join hands to host shopping festivals...
Basic amenities, gutter lines lacking, forcing slumdwellers to defecat...
Poor AMC allocation: Basic amenities, gutter lines lacking, forcing slumdwellers to defecate in open, Ahmedabad authorities told
CV News/ Friday, January 11, 2019
Even as Ahmedabad has been declared “open defecation free plus” (ODF+) by the Narendra Modi government, which means the city has hygienic and usable public toilets, a grassroots communi...
Bopal to get water from Narmada Canal based project”
Gujarat Chief Minister dedicates, lays stone of AUDA development projects worth Rs.285-crore “Bopal to get water from Rs.160-crore Narmada Canal based project” Ahmedabad, Tuesday: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today dedicated and laid the
foundation stones of various development projects of Ahmedabad Urban Development
Authority (AUDA) wo...
India’s first Railway University built in Vadodara
Vadodara is all set to become a hub of modern railway services and railway training institutions. the world’s third and India’s first ‘National Railway and Transport Institution’ (NRATI) Railway World University at Lalbaug in Vadodara. also released
a booklet narrating the growth story of railway services in four years in
Gujarat.
cm Rupani said...
Gujarat advocates’ “rare upsurge” against controvers...
Monday, December 17, 2018 Justice Akil Kureshi
By RK Misra*
In a rare show of solidarity over the transfer of Justice Akil Kureshi to Bombay High Court, the Bar in the Western India state of Gujarat went on strike and relented only after a meeting with Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi. Rarely has the transfer of a High Court judge created ...