Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
A 600 MW solar power park, touted as Asia's first and largest, was on Thursday dedicated to the nation by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the state's Patan district, in a boost to India's efforts towards low carbon growth. The solar power park with a power generation capacity of …
Solar power projects with a total capacity of 600 Mw will soon be commisioned at a ceremony at Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka village in Radhanpur, officials of Gujarat Power Corporation said here on Sunday. The projects at Solar Park currently has an aggregate capacity of 214 Mw.Twenty one new …
Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat. This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the …
Anand (Gujarat) India continues to be the largest milk producing nation, according to the report of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for 2010-11. The country’s estimated milk production for the period stood at 121 million tonne (mt), close to 17% of the world’s total produce. During the year, dairy …
GANDHINAGAR: Despite huge claims of rise in water tables across Gujarat and simultaneous improvement in groundwater levels because of tens of thousands of watershed projects, checkdams, village ponds and other recharge structures, an authoritative report suggests there is, if at all, marginal improvement. In fact, even in North Gujarat, where …
Gandhinagar: Next time you drive along the Narmada canal or a river bed, you are likely to see tall trees. The state government, in a bid to increase tree cover in the non-forest area, has decided to adopt the Anand model of tree plantation in 17 districts in the state. …
Survey Finds Ahmedabad Among Six Districts With Less Than 10 Trees Per Hectare; Gandhinagar, Anand Top List Rapid urbanisation has taken a toll on the tree cover in Ahmedabad. It now features among the six districts which have less than 10 trees per hectare. This was revealed in findings of …
On the genesis of the scheme Our target is to ensure not a single milk producer in Anand and Khera districts of Gujarat defecates in the open. This is the region where the milk movement began in 1946, where we strive to improve the quality of the milk chain— from …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: The Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited (KDCMPUL), popularly known as Amul Dairy, has launched a novel scheme for total rural sanitation. The dairy has set a target for itself whereby not a single milk producer will attend to nature
Vadodara/Anand: A fourmember delegation of senior Kenyan government officials visited Amul Dairy and Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) in Anand on Monday. The delegation led by senior deputy secretary of ministry of co-operative development and marketing EM Irungu also visited Amul
Vadodara/Anand: A brand new Nano car, which was on its way to Vadodara from Ahmedabad, caught fire on national highway (NH) 8 in Anand district on Wednesday noon. The incident took place at a spot near Boriyavi village on the national highway around 3 pm. The car was part of …
Vadodara/Anand: A French couple on a world tour on bicycles to promote and study dairying across the globe visited Anand on Tuesday. Martine Brouwer (31), a specialist in dairy production and Arnaud Baranger (28), a specialist in livestock housing, visited the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) headquarters in Anand and …
The vulnerability of natural systems to rapid changes in climate pattern is regarded as one of the most challenging issues in recent years. This paper analyzes the annual rainfall pattern in the Mahi Right Bank Canal (MRBC) irrigation command area located in central Gujarat and evaluates its effects on cropping …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The state agriculture department has started a crop survey (annawari) to estimate loss of standing crop due to delay in monsoon and deficit rains in several pockets in the state. Officials in the agriculture department said that the
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: You might have heard of terrace gardens in flats and pent houses. But ever heard of a wind and solar farm on any terrace? A terrace of a cold storage in Vadodara is now equipped with a unique micro wind solar hybrid farm that not …
Affected Animals Have Been Shifted To A Panjrapol In Ahmedabad Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand/Ahmedabad: Sixty cows on Anand Agriculture University (AAU) campus have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), causing concern in the milk capital
AHMEDABAD: Her name evokes awe and fear among government officials. She is considered a hard taskmaster and a revolutionary of sorts in her village Khaksar in Tarapur taluka of Anand district. Bhanu Parmar is known for her RTI applications on 2006 floods in Anand district that exposed that the district …