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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...
Amit Shah’s bio data for Loksabha election
Born on 22 October 1964, Amit Shah represents the emerging New India in
every sense of the term. Leading the Party from the front for the last ve years
has been remarkably successful in expanding BJP's organisational foot print,
securing one electoral victory after the other in State assembly elections.
During his tenure, Party has become the ...
Gujarat govt “changed norms” to declare it fit to drink
The Lokshahi Bachao Andolan, a Gujarat-based civil rights organization headed by former BJP chief minister Suresh Mehta, has alleged that the state government has changed the minimum acceptable standard of drinking water from 500 milligrams per liter of TDS to 2,000 milligrams, risking the health of crores of people of Gujarat. Pointing out that th...
New single women’s organization in Gujarat demands increase in p...
CV News/ Saturday, March 16, 2019 A new organization, Ekal Mahila Adhikar Sangathan, proposing to fight for single women’s rights in Gujarat, has come into existence following a meeting of an estimated 1,500 single women, many of them from the minority community. The meeting was held in the North Gujarat town of Himmatnagar.
Those who actively ...
35% job loss after demonetization, 50% dip in revenues of MSMEs: Econo...
CV News/ Friday, March 15, 2019
Talking about the "adverse" impact of the November 2016 demonetisation, a senior academic has revealed, at a meeting organized by the Financial Accountability Network India and Delhi Forum, two civil rigs organizations, ever since, India's micro and small enterprises have suffered 35% job losses and 50 per cent dip ...
Demand from Gujarat Govt to support silicosis patients continuously on...
CV News/ Sunday, March 17, 2019 Senior health rights activist Jagdish Patel, who heads People's Training and Research Centre (PTRC), Vadodara, has asked the the Government of Gujarat to urgently arrange for oxygen concentrator for patients like Sikandar alias Ratan, suffering from silicosis since 2013. At the age of 33 Sikandar began working as ...
Dangerously Very High COD levels in village Luna
This is to draw your attention to the findings of reports that we availed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 on 11.03.2019, to take action in view of Dangerously Very High COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) levels observed in ground water in village Luna, Padra Taluka, Vadodara District. The levels were determined as an outcome of a joint ...
Industrial effluents “invade” borewells, discharge coloure...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 By Rajiv Shah
In a major embarrassment for Gujarat model, of the 21 samples taken by officials of the state government's environmental watchdog Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) in two villages of Vadodara district and analyzed by its laboratory in Gandhinagar, the state capital, to find out pollution level in groun...
GNR get Women Achievers award
Lifetime Achievement Award
1 Kirtidaben Shah Social Work
2 Ritaben Trivedi
3 Priyanshi Patel
4 Education
5 Mrs. Ronita D’souza
6 Pervin Doctor Entrepreneur
7 Meenakshi Jay Ahuja
8 Dr. Gitija Saulja Literature
9 Vijayalakshmi J Art & Culture
10 Chaula Doshi
11 AMITA A DALAL
12 Dr. Mitali Navneet Nag
13 Sonal Majmudar
14 Sangeet...
Help line for herbal manufacturers
Ministry of AYUSH has recently changed some regulations for manufacturing of herbal medicines. New rules will be helpful in improving the Quality of herbal products to match Global standards. Executive committee members of Gujarat Ayurveda Aushadh Manufacturer Association (GAAMA) expressed this opinion at a meeting. GAAMA executive committee mem...
Salt farmers hit: Railways “uproots” track in Little Rann ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019 By Pankti Jog*
Agariyas from Dhangadhra and Patadi, the towns situated along the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, may not participate in voting on April 23, the day polling takes place in the state, as a mark of protest against an “insensitive step” that the Indian Railways has taken – to close down the Kuda-Dhangadhra ...
115 dams in the Saurashtra region would be filled with the Narmada wat...
Narmada canal waters from Bhimdad through pipeline to Shetrunji dam in Saurashtra region under Phase-2 of the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) Yojana – well in time before the difficult summer days. He also laid the foundation stone of extending the pipeline from Shetrunji to Raidi dam.
Speaking at the function, he said that 115 dams ...
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...