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Sabarmati river is a swimming pool
Untreated effluents discharged in river
Monday, June 24, 2019
Gujarat CM overseeing Sabarmati riverfront clean-up drive on June 5, 2019
Counterview Desk
In a fresh letter to the secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, senior Gujarat environmentalists Rohit Prajapati and Krishnakant of the ...
Officers not supporting Sanjiv Bhatt working for extremist political r...
CV News/ Sunday, June 23, 2019
In an open Facebook post addressed to police officials, Shweta Bhatt, wife of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a three decades old alleged custodial death by the Jamnagar sessions court, has warned that what has happened to her husband today may happen to them tomorrow...
Sabarmati River it is “dead”
Sabarmati River in the Ahmedabad city, along the entire River, is dry and within the Riverfront Project stretch, it is brimming with stagnant water. In the last 120 kilometres, before meeting the Arabian Sea, it is “dead” and comprises of just industrial effluent and sewage.
Our joint investigation reports with Gujarat Pollution Control Board, da...
Sanjiv Bhatt paying price for deposing on Modi role in Gujarat riots: ...
Friday, June 21, 2019
Counterview Desk
Following the Jamnagar sessions court ordering life imprisonment to former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for his alleged involvement in three decades old custodial death case, his wife Shweta Bhatt has said that he has been sentenced for a “for a crime he did not commit”, even as criticizing the Indian Police...
Gujarat govt ‘considers’ temples, charitable institutions ...
By Pankti Jog*
The Gujarat state assembly recently passed a new law which would "govern" the working condition of shops and establishments. One of the most talked aboutprovisions of the Act is, it allow shops and establishments across Gujarat to function 24 hours.
Already effective for more than six weeks, while the claim is, it would generate mo...
Gujarat Dalit teen’s murder: ‘Riddled’ with bureaucr...
Will the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) go in for a “thorough inquiry” into the recent murder of 19-year old Rajesh Sondharva a resident of Manekwada village in Rajkot district of Gujarat? As claimed by well-known right to information (RTI) activist Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission (CHRI), following his complaint...
Share the copy of the ReportBullet Train Project, PSS
Paryavaran Suraxa Samiti demand to publish a report on prepared and submitted to you in connection with the visit by the JICA team to Gujarat and Maharashtra in the month of December 2018 and January 2019 respectively in connection with the Bullet Train Project.
To: The Managing Director
National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited
2nd FL...
Aarti held to highlight Sabarmati pollution beyond Vasna barrage in Ah...
Taking strong exception to the cleaning-up drive of Sabarmati river passing through Ahmedabad on the occasion of the World Environment Day, senior activists Jatin Sheth and Santosh Singh have said that the move started by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is restricted not to the entire Sabarmati river but to the area of the riverfront in...
Rise in Ahmedabad’s temperature ‘related to’ higher ...
The Green Catalyst team, consisting of 45 volunteers from 15 different colleges of Ahmedabad, organized two different programmes on the occasion of the World Environment Day, supported by Ahmedabad-based environmental organization Paryavaran Mitra.
The team, which works for awareness and education on waste management, including e-waste and plastic...
It’s now official: Akshay Kumar has not been conferred honorary ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019
By Our Representative
It is now official. Super-star Akshay Kumar has not been conferred any honorary citizenship by Canadian authorities, as claimed by him ahead of the 2019 elections. In reply to a query by Roshan Shah, who is a Canadian citizen living in Waterloo, Ontario, and belongs to Ahmedabad, the country’s author...
Total Narmada Dam oustees 53,000, not 23,000, NBA tells Govt of India
CV News/ Monday, June 03, 2019
Narmada Valley Development and Rehabilitation Minister Surendrasinh Baghel's claim in a press communique that all the 83 rehabilitation sites, built in Madhya Pradesh to resettle Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam oustees, would be given all the facilities till June 20 to make them liveable "is impossible to achieve", the ...
Cleared 50 TP-DP Schemes in first five months
With a determination of seedy and well plan development of urban areas in the state, Gujarat Chief Minster Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani has cleared as many as 50 Town Planning Schemes (TP) – Development Plan (DP) in first five months of year-2019. The clearance of these 50 TPs have given developmental planning for over 5,000 hectares of land areas.
Since ...
Surat fire tragedy: Gujarat govt hasn’t learned from past traged...
CV News/ Saturday, May 25, 2019
In a memorandum to Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), Gujarat, a political group, has said that the Takshshila fire tragedy in Surat, which has led to the death of 23 students, suggests that the Gujarat government has not learned any lesson over the last two years, dur...
Surat fire tragedy, three arrested, three officials suspended
Mukesh Puri, Principal Secretary of Urban Development, submitted his primary investigation report to Chief Minister on fire tragedy incident that recently occurred in
Surat.
Later, Puri, apprising the media persons about the details of his submitted report, said that in reference to the report in a high-level meeting was held in Gandhinagar in wh...
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 ...