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Modi model? “Refusal” to build Narmada’s micro canal...
Monday, April 15, 2019 Counterview By Medha Patkar*
This is the latest photograph of the Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) of the Sardar Sarovar, as of April 8! What does it show, expose, and what memories do you recall? Is it dry or dead? Is it a canal or a carcass of the same?
None has forgotten the fact that the Sardar Sarovar was approved as a dam ...
Investigation shows Narmada downstream “seriously” pollute...
By Rohit Prajapati, Krishnakant, Swati Desai*
Our investigation regarding quality of water flowing in the Narmada river downstream of the Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD), dated April 6, 2019, between 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. reiterates, what is commonly known now, that the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is planned without considering its impact on the downs...
Industry needs to implement Industry 4.0 to be more competitive
FICCI along with Department of Heavy Industry under the Samarth Udyog Initiative organized an awareness workshops on Industry 4.0. with an objective to foster adoption of smart manufacturing. This Awareness workshop on Industry 4.0 – Preparing for Digital Transformation In Indian Manufacturing in Ahmedabad is a joint initiative of Department of Hea...
Gujarat govt performance on development “below average”: A...
Counterview Desk
Conducted as part of its all-India survey, the high profile NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has found that, in Gujarat, Better Employment Opportunities (42.68%), Drinking Water (37.12%), and Better Hospitals/Primary Healthcare Centres (30.23%) are the top three voters’ priorities. The survey also found that caste and ...
Abandon coal-based power plants, dams on Narmada river: MP 34 civil so...
Friday, April 12, 2019 Counterview Desk
As many as 34 civil society organizations of Madhya Pradesh, forming Jan Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti, have, through a statement, put forward a list of demands before candidates fighting the Lok Sabha elections, ranging from abandoning new plans to have coal-based power plants to suspending fresh dams on the...
42% of Gujarat wants better employment opportunities
Focusing on Gujarat, this report provides an analysis of 10 most important governance issues as rated by the voters of Gujarat (out of the 31 listed in the questionnaire). These voters’ priorities are further examined in relation to the performance of the Government on those issues as perceived by the respondents. A three-level scale of GOOD, AVERA...
Those who disagree politically not anti-national, are not enemies, but...
CV News/ Thursday, April 04, 2019 In a sharply-worded critique of those at the top leadership in the BJP, party stalwart LK Advani, who has been "disowned" by his junior colleagues, has said that the party's conception of Indian nationalism "never regarded those who disagree ... politically as anti-national”. The comment comes amidst efforts by ...
Saurashtra topcop “threatens” Dalit builder his mustache w...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Atul Chavda, an Amreli-based Dalit builder from Saurashtra, has complained to the director-general of police, Gujarat, that a senior police official of Amreli, an ASP, has used "derogatory words" against him on April 8 in front of the Circuit House, saying, "Police have to be very alert with Dalits having musta...
Dalit activist detained in Junagadh, as Modi arrives in city for poll ...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Bharata Parmar, a Saurashtra-based Dalit rights leader close to well-known Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, who is an independent MLA, has been detained ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving in Junagadh to address an election rally. Bringing this to light, Mevani has claimed, Parmar has been detain...
BJP manifesto follows Savarkar’s two-nation theory, ignores mino...
CV News/ Monday, April 08, 2019 Sharply criticising the BJP manifesto, which it has sought to call Sankalp Patra (pledge document), the Gujarat-based civil rights organization, Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), has said that it has totally ignored the minorities, who form about 20% of India's population. Worse, it said, it is a document tha...
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...
Reprieve for Ahmed Patel,tough battle for Congress as new face Sherkha...
By Abdul hafiz lakhani Ahmedabad The Congress on Thursday announced the names of two candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, taking the total number of seats on which it has declared its candidates to 357. . The party has fielded Sher Khan Abdul Shakur Pathan from Bharuch Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, putting to rest all speculation abou...
”Failure” of a Modi campaign: 51% Gujarat men tobacco addi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
While the Gujarat government may claim to have decided to begin a “tobacco free Gujarat” campaign in 2011 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the state chief minister. Yet, latest available data suggest that as many as 51.4 per cent of men and seven per cent of women in the state use any form of tobacco ...
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...
Meet Shobha, Rashminara, and Rupa Behn
Rupa Behn Mody is a survivor of the Gulberg massacre during which she was taking shelter with her sons Azhar and Binaifer in the home of Ehsan and Zakia Jafri. As they were trying to escape the violent mob, Azhar's hand slipped away and he was left behind. That was the last time Rupa Behn saw him. Rupa Behn, dealing with apathetic and disinteres...