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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 ...
Why was Hardik Patel’s plea to suspend his conviction in a 2015 ...
Friday, April 19, 2019 Hardik Patel with Rahul Gandhi
By RK Misra*
While the Apex Court gave relief to a Gujarat Congress MLA regarding his disqualification, it denied urgent hearing of a plea from Hardik Patel of the same party, bringing into question his ability to contest the polls. In the space of just 24 hours, two leaders from Gujarat wh...
Modi supporters blamed for attack on journos, as India slips in press ...
Friday, April 19, 2019 By Our Representative
In what may prove to be a major embarrassment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a time when he is seeking a second term in office from India's electorate, the latest rankings released by the high-profile Reporters Without Borders (RWB), based in Paris, shows that India has slipped by two points fro...
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...
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...