ગુજરાતી
English
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...
Help line for herbal manufacturers
Ministry of AYUSH has recently changed some regulations for manufacturing of herbal medicines. New rules will be helpful in improving the Quality of herbal products to match Global standards. Executive committee members of Gujarat Ayurveda Aushadh Manufacturer Association (GAAMA) expressed this opinion at a meeting.
GAAMA executive committee mem...
1996 saw maximum number of 577 candidates, but lowest 35.92% of voting...
Ever since Gujarat was bifurcated from the bilingual state of Bombay in 1960, General Election to the Lok Sabha began in the state in 1962 for 22 seats, which was increased in 1967 to 24 and in 1977 to 26.
The elections to the 17 th Lok Sabha will now be held in Gujarat in single phase on April 23, 2019 at 51,709 booths.
As per the website of the...
PMO “tries to stop” in Gujarat Vidyapeeth to discuss erosi...
CV News/ Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Justice Kurian Joseph, Gagan Sethi
Did the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) try to stop a pre-arranged civil society meet at Gujarat University, founded by Mahatma Gandhi, held on the occasion of the 89th anniversary of Dandi march to highlight the importance of nonviolence at a time when the country is allegedly f...
Gujarat govt “not transparent” in appointing information c...
CV News/ Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Top Right to Information (RTI) activist Anjali Bharadwaj has accused the Gujarat government of failing to be transparent in the appointment of information commissioners, saying, despite clearcut Supreme Court order to fill up vacancies within a month transparently, things remain extremely secretive and nobody kno...
International experts in Gujarat to Save the world’s largest fish
andhinagar, 14 March 2019: Mahatma Mandir at Gandhinagar will see an aggregation of experts on science, conservation and law enforcement forums from countries along the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. International and national delegates have converged to the maritime state of Gujarat for the first regional conference on Whale Sharks on 14th and...
Salt farmers hit: Railways “uproots” track in Little Rann ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019
By Pankti Jog*
Agariyas from Dhangadhra and Patadi, the towns situated along the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, may not participate in voting on April 23, the day polling takes place in the state, as a mark of protest against an “insensitive step” that the Indian Railways has taken – to close down the Kuda-Dhangadhra ...
45,000 houses basic facilities made at a cost of Rs. 673-crore.
Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijaybhai Rupani expressed firm resolve to provide ‘Rotlo ne Otlo Bey’ (Bread and Shelter, both) to needy poor, rural, deprived people by building 25-lakh houses under the ‘Sheri-Gramin Awas Yojna by year 2022.
At the function organized to mark the event at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Mr. Rupani had performed e-Gruh...