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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...
Only 40% forest land claims approved, 10% tribal farmers got land titl...
CV News/ Monday, February 11, 2019 Gujarat's tribal rights organization, with a claimed membership of over 10,000 in seven districts, Eklavya Sangathan, which organized a rally on February 11 at the riverfront in Ahmedabad, has demanded that tribals' right to own forest land, get foodgrains as per the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, and...
Disclose reasons behind the presence of Sulphide in Narmada dam
Disclose reasons behind the presence of Sulphide and decrease in Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in Sardar Sarovar Dam and its canals. All write to the authority for the disclose reason. The Sardar Sarovar Dam is understood to be The Lifeline of Gujarat and is considered to be the solution to water problem of almost the entire state. Recent media repor...
Very high sodium content in Maggi
Advts of Maggi Nutri-licious Atta Noodles and Alia bhatt endorsed Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water found to be false. Class Action Suits filed on both companies. NGO, Ahmedabad has filed two cases before the District Forum against Nestle India Ltd and L’Oreal India Pvt. Ltd for their misleading advertisements. The advts of Nestle’s Maggi Nutri-l...
Officers suspended for 800 acers land scam
Resident Additional Collector and two others suspended for transferring 800 acres of government land of Chotila taluka for false interpretation of ALC Gandhinagar, Thursday: In a past case of irregularities found in transfer of over 800 acres of government land at Bamanbor and Jivapar in Chotila taluka in Surendranagar district under Agricultura...
Gujarat, Central govt “mess” over poisonous Narmada waters...
CV News/ Sunday, February 10, 2019 Even as the Gujarat government is going ahead with Narmada Jubilee celebrations, Mother Narmada is allegedly facing it's worst-ever crisis. The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in a statement says that after stopping Narmada water from big dams, the drinking water consumption was reduced, and now the rese...
Snapdeal sells products at unbelievable discounts. Are they Counterfei...
CERC makes a representation to DCGI asking for urgent intervention Consumer Education and Research Centre(CERC), Ahmedabad conducted an online survey of personal care products and cosmetics sold on e-portals Snapdeal and Nykaa. While Snapdeal is an e-commerce platform with over 3,00,000 sellers, Nykaa is a popular online store that claims to sel...
Rs.23,889-cr disbursed to 1.34-crore poor in 10 years in Gujarat
Rs.23,889-cr disbursed to 1.34-crore beneficiaries in 1,491 fairs so far during the previous 10 editions of Garib Kalyan Mela initiated in 2009
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani will inaugurate the 11th statewide 3-day Garib Kalyan Mela from the coastal district of Porbandar on January 2, 2019. He will attend the next fair at Bhuj in the drought...