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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...
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 that...
NGT asks Gujarat govt to form committee to halt environmental damage o...
CV News/ Friday, March 01, 2019 Taking serious view of “illegal construction activities, dumping of waste, dredging, digging, illegal discharge of effluents and absence of demarcation of blue line and red line in the river bed by the Irrigation Department” in the area of Tapi river in Surat, Gujarat, the National Green Tribunal (NTG), New Delhi,...
Rupani today removed Prajapati VC of the Hemchandracharya University
Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijay Rupani today removed Prof B A Prajapati as the Vice Chancellor of the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (HNGU) over charges of corruption and irregularities. He took the decision to remove Prajapati from the post of vice chancellor
of the Patan-based university, after an inquiry by the state Lokayukta ...
84,450 claims were accepted under the Forest Rights Act
Gujarat government has decided that a review petition will be filed after studying the claims made under the Forest Rights Act – 2006, which were rejected by the Supreme Court. Government has also setting-up of a high-level committee for this purpose. Single rightfully beneficiary vanbandhu should not be deprived from the benefits availing under th...
GoG gifts developmental projects worth Rs. 504-Cr to Rajkot
GoG gifted various public welfare developmental projects worth of Rs. 504-crore to his home town, Rajkot. determination of the state government to make all-round development in all the eight municipal corporations, including Rajkot, are making rapid growths. In its report of the top 10 fastest growing cities of the world, the Global Economic Res...
NGO team finds chemical waste being illegally dumped on a farmland in ...
CV News/ Sunday, February 24, 2019 Claiming to have exposed a racket in Vadodara district involving a former Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), environment group Prakruti Suraksha Mandal (PSM) has said that its team has found large scale illegal disposal of solid waste in the premises of a farm in Nani Bhadol village of Savli taluka. In a s...
GoG constituted a three-member Ministers’ Committee
Gujarat Government constituted a three-member Ministers’ Committee to resolve the issues raised by agitating and striking Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) staff and primary school teachers. The committee members are Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel, Agriculture Minister R.C. Faldu and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasm...