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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...
Jindal Steel & Power – Misleading Indian investors & Bankers...
Naveen Jindal has been using the coffers of JSPL to settle his personal rivalry against the Gujarat NRE group for years now, forgetting that JSPL is a public listed company with a separate legal entity and not a personal cheque book to be used at the promoter’s will, said Arun Kumar Jagatramka.
Despite knowing fully well that JSPL is barred unde...
”Failure” of a Modi campaign: 51% Gujarat men tobacco addi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019
By Rajiv Shah
While the Gujarat government may claim to have decided to begin a “tobacco free Gujarat” campaign in 2011 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the state chief minister. Yet, latest available data suggest that as many as 51.4 per cent of men and seven per cent of women in the state use any form of tobacco ...
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, AMC
Notice to take action against CETPs, STPs, Polluting Industries, and Amdavad Municipal Corporation in view of Dangerously Very High COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and zero DO (Dissolved Oxygen) levels observed in the water of Sabarmati River.
It is now known and admitted reality that untreated and poorly treated ind...
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...
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...
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 ...
Gujarat government bravado and “slow death” of agriculture...
Monday, March 18, 2019
By SagarRabari*, Persis Ginwalla**
Why is Gujarat, an otherwise ‘developed’ state, with an agricultural growth rate ostensibly much higher than other states of India, as claimed repeatedly by the Government of Gujarat (GoG), reeling under the anger of farmers? If the GoG’s claims of development are indeed true, then why i...
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...
Top Gujarat PSU fails to find irregularities against “rough-and-...
CV News/ Sunday, March 10, 2019
The three-year old tug-of-war between AK Vijay Kumar, a non-IAS babu known for his rough-and-tough ways, and Atanu Chakraborty, a Gujarat cadre industry-friendly IAS bureaucrat, has come to an end following intervention by Gujarat chief secretary JN Singh and two other bureaucrats.
Kumar, who previously served th...
Has proposed project to dump “treated” effluents into Arab...
CV News/ Friday, March 01, 2019
Top Ahmedabad-based environmental group Paryavaran Mitra has filed an application with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, regarding the construction of a pipeline that would reportedly carry treated effluent from different cities of Gujarat and discharge it in Arabia...
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 ...
India’s economic growth in Oct-Dec 6.4-6.9%, lowest in 5 years
CV News/ Wednesday, February 27, 2019
In what may prove to be a major embarrassment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top international news agency Reuters has created a flutter by saying that it's survey of economists suggests India's growth rate slipped to 6.9 percent annually in the October-December quarter.
Pointing out that it would be the "s...