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Meet Shobha, Rashminara, and Rupa Behn
Rupa Behn Mody is a survivor of the Gulberg massacre during which she was taking shelter with her sons Azhar and Binaifer in the home of Ehsan and Zakia Jafri. As they were trying to escape the violent mob, Azhar's hand slipped away and he was left behind. That was the last time Rupa Behn saw him.
Rupa Behn, dealing with apathetic and disinteres...
21 assembly seats in Ahmedabad 719 centenarian voters
By Himanshu Upadhyay
Ahmedabad, March 28, 2019: With age their bodies have become fragile but their mind and spirit are still as strong as ‘Vajra’ to urge them to participate in the greatest festival of democracy called ‘Election’ as over 700 centenarian voters from Ahmedabad city and district are eager to cast their votes in the forthcoming...
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...
All India Survey on Governance Issues and Voting Behaviour 2018
25th March 2019
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) commissioned perhaps the largest ever Voter Survey in any country. The survey was conducted between October 2018 and December 2018, prior to the General Elections to the Lok Sabha 2019. It covered 534 Lok Sabha constituencies with 2,73,487 voters participating in this exercise spread a...
Amit Shah’s bio data for Loksabha election
Born on 22 October 1964, Amit Shah represents the emerging New India in
every sense of the term. Leading the Party from the front for the last ve years
has been remarkably successful in expanding BJP's organisational foot print,
securing one electoral victory after the other in State assembly elections.
During his tenure, Party has become the ...
Congress would win just 9 of 26 Lok Sabha seats
Gujarat Assembly segment-wise analysis
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat ahead of state assembly polls in 2017
By Rajiv Shah
Even as the Congress plans its first working committee meet in Gujarat on February 28 after an almost 58 year gap, there is reason to wonder what is in store for India’s grand old party in a state which...
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...
Give reservation to Dalit Muslims, Christians: Parties told
Sunday, March 24, 2019
By Our Representative
The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), a Gujarat-based civil rights organization, has come up with a 14-point demands list for inclusion into political parties’ election manifestos for the 2019 polls. To be sent to political parties and their candidates shortly, these demands seek obligatory form...
New single women’s organization in Gujarat demands increase in p...
CV News/ Saturday, March 16, 2019
A new organization, Ekal Mahila Adhikar Sangathan, proposing to fight for single women’s rights in Gujarat, has come into existence following a meeting of an estimated 1,500 single women, many of them from the minority community. The meeting was held in the North Gujarat town of Himmatnagar.
Those who actively ...
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...
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...