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Gujarat High Court directs state govt to treat pilgrimage spots of all...
CV News/ Monday, May 06, 2019
The Gujarat High Court has ruled that the state government agency meant to look after religious spots, Gujarat Pavitra Yatradham Board, should take under its fold holy pilgrimage spots of all religions. Mujahid Nafees, convenor, Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), had filed a public interest application (PIL) (201/...
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 ...
Indian industry’s sales levels, profit margins drastically go do...
CV News/ Thursday, May 02, 2019
The latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES) of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has revealed that in March 2019, nearly 3/5ths of the firms in the sample reported that sales are ‘somewhat or much less than normal’, and the proportion of firms that reported ‘much less than normal’ s...
Gujarat potato farmers tell PepsiCo : Withdraw court cases uncondition...
CV News/ Friday, May 03, 2019
Gujarat potato farmers sued by PepsiCo have rejected the top multinational corporation’s (MNC’s) announcement that it would withdraw cases against them under certain terms and conditions, asserting that Indian farmers’ seed freedoms are non-negotiable. Talking with media in Ahmedabad, one of the four potato farmers,...
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 ...
Gujarat demanded PepsiCo withdraw legal suits farmers
24th April 2019: Leading farmer unions, farmers’ rights advocacy groups and
eminent citizens of Gujarat demanded that PepsiCo immediately withdraw all the legal suits it has slapped on many potato farmers in different districts of Gujarat. The Indian subsidiary of the US MNC,
namely PepsiCo India Holdings (PIH) Pvt Ltd has filed cases of IPR infr...
As Gujarat goes to polls on April 23, Narmada is “forgotten̶...
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Boats dumped on the bank of river Narmada in Bharuch
By Mayank Aggarwal*
Sanjaybhai Machhi, 33, a resident of Bharuch in Gujarat, was a fisherman until a few years ago. He would earn enough from fishing in the Narmada river, to sustain his family. But now things have taken a turn for the worse and Sanjaybhai has had to s...
Despite “higher” water storage in Narmada dam, Kutch, Saur...
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Indira Sagar dam in Madhya Pradesh
Counterview Desk
Well-known environmentalist Himanshu Thakkar of the top advocacy group, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) has wondered as why, despite Gujarat having so much Narmada water this year, it is refusing to share it with drought hit and thirsty parts of t...
Over-dependence on groundwater usage for irrigation: Gujarat average 7...
Saturday, April 20, 2019
By Persis Ginwalla, Sagar Rabari*
Over the three agriculture census periods (15 years), one can see that there has been an increase in overall holdings and the area under irrigation, and a net decrease in the unirrigated holdings and area in Gujarat. Increase in the irrigation cover in Gujarat is certainly significant, ...
60% urban men aged 20-24 unemployed, 5 lakh lost jobs in Gujarat 2016
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Counterview Desk
In a new report, "State of Working India", prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, even as taking strong exception to the Government of India discontinuing employment and unemployment survey, has quoted independent surveys to say that a whopping five million...
Book on seven interconnected “political” murders, includin...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 17, 2019
A controversial new book in Hindi, ‘Satta ki Suli’, with an account on CBI judge BH Loya’s death case, released in Ahmedabad, has sought to cover not only the alleged murder of the judge but also a series of seven other "political murders".
The book, authored by Mahendra Mishra, Pradeep Singh and Upendra Chowd...
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...
Why are you silent on discrimination against Dalit jawans? Macwan ques...
Friday, April 12, 2019
Close on the heels of releasing his book in Gujarati, "Bhed Bharat", which lists 319 cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis across the country over the last five years, well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan has shot an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him the reasons why he does ...