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As Narmada goes dry, environmentalist asks: Where’s Gujarat govt...
CV News/ Friday, May 17, 2019Senior Ahmedabad-based environmentalist Mahesh Pandya has sharply criticised the Gujarat government for failing to come up with water policy despite "grim" situation across the state. Pandya, who heads Paryavaran Mitra, told a seminar jointly called by the Gujarat Institute for Civil Engineers and Architects and Public ...
Jurisdiction And Functions Of Lokpal
The Lokpal has jurisdiction to inquire into allegations of corruption against anyone who is or has been Prime Minister, or a Minister in the Union government, or a Member of Parliament, as well as officials of the Union Government under Groups A, B, C and D. Also covered are chairpersons,members, officers and directors of any board, corporation, so...
Suspend senior cop Falguni Patel for “abusing” Dalits
CV News/ Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Jignesh Mevani, Gujarat Dalit rights leader and MLA, has demanded that the state government should immediately suspend Aravalli district's deputy superintendent of police Falguni Patel for allegedly abusing Dalits in Khambisar village after people from the dominant caste stalled a Dalit wedding procession, leading to ...
The highest increases in crimes in eight states with Gujarat
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In their joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee to meet for the listing of adoption of list of issues at its 126th session, July 1-26, 2019, top Dalit rights organizations have taken strong exception to, among other things, "disproportional application of death sentencing by the judiciary of minorities, such...
Dalit wedding processions row: Rights leaders question Gujarat CM̵...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Martin Macwan, Jignesh Mevani
By Our Representative
Addressing media in the wake of a series of incidents -- in which dominant rural castes stopped Dalit wedding processions to pass through village streets -- rights leaders Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA of Gujarat state assembly, and Martin Macwan, founder of Gujarat...
India’s 80% construction sites “unsafe”, deaths 20 t...
Sunday, May 12, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
The Government of India may be seeking to project India’s construction sector as the country’s second-largest employer of the country after agriculture, providing jobs to more than 44 million people, and contributing nearly 9% to the national GDP, yet, ironically, its workforce is more unprotected than any oth...
5 farmers in district court of Modasa today, withdrew PepsiCo legal su...
“Government of India should proactively take up measures to uphold farmers’ rights – We will continue our public campaign to secure this” say farmers rights groups PepsiCo India Holdings Ltd, after having sought and obtained an early Hearing in its cases against 4 Gujarat potato farmers in the Commercial Court of Ahmedabad and 5 farmers in distr...
Demand to provide midday meal to poor students admitted in private sch...
CV News/ Wednesday, May 08, 2019 Senior Ahmedabad-based activist Mahesh Pandya has demanded that private schools should provide midday meal to poor children who have been admitted in private schools under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
In a letter to the Midday Meal Commission, Gujarat government, Pandya, midday meal is an important governme...
Scarcity of water in tribal-dominated Chhotaudepur: Gujarat CM asked t...
CV News/ Wednesday, May 08, 2019
In a letter to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, a senior Dalit rights social worker, Kantilal Parmar, has said that the state government should take urgent steps to ensure provision of water in tribal-dominated villages of Chhotapudepur district of south Gujarat.
Pointing out that even handpumps in a large of ...
Atmosphere of “fear” in Gujarat institutes bogs all: Schoo...
By Prof Hemantkumar Shah*
The present education system is a matter of great concern. There is an increase in the establishment of universities since 2001. Currently, there are more than 50 universities, whereas in 2001 the count was only 15. The concern with these newly established universities is there affiliation as private universities.
The la...
As Gujarat govt denies industries discharge polluted water, environmen...
The Gujarat government’s environmental watchdog, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has denied the strong allegation levelled by two top environmentalists, Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant, that industrial units of Vadodara are polluting groundwater by discharging untreated wastewater. Belonging to the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS), based in ...
Costs of environmental damage due to illegal mining in Gir-Somnath, Ju...
CV News/ Monday, May 06, 2019
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Gujarat State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to assess Net Present Value (NPV) of limestone following illegal mining in Gir-Somnath and ...
Gujarat CM queried: Where has 24.81 acre feet of water disappeared fro...
CV News/ Monday, April 29, 2019 Releasing month-wise data provided by the Narmada Control Authority (NCA), well-known Gujarat farmers’ rights leader Sagar Rabari, in a letter to chief minister Vijay Rupani has said that, citing low rainfall, the state government has stopped providing irrigation water starting with February 15, even though there ...
137 workers died at Gujarat construction sites in 2018
Right to Information (RTI) replies to the Bandhkam Mazdoor Sangathan (BMS) has revealed that, in 2018, as many as 144 construction work-related accidents took place in Gujarat. Obtained by filling RTI pleas to police stations across the state, the replies show that 137 workers died in these accidents last year.
In statement issued on the occasion ...
Amit Shah earns just Rs 56 lakh annually, owns Rs 40 cr, faces four se...
CV News/ Saturday, April 20, 2019 BJP's high-profile candidate from Gandhinagar, Amit Shah, who also happens to be the party's national president, has claimed that his annual income is just about Rs 56 lakh, and his main sources of income are agriculture, rent and share market. Shah has also declared that he owns 40.32 crore of assets -- 23.55 c...