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 …
Inspection Report by GPCB in OA No.107/2023 (WZ) (Pooja Hotchandani V/s Nadiad Municipality & Ors) dated 26/04/2024 regarding Nadiad Nagarpalika SWM site, village Kamla, Manjipura road, Nadiad, Kheda. The process for treating biodegradable waste by methods of composting/digestion has not started yet. The unit has started the process of legacy …
ADODARA/ANAND: India's first solar cooperative - the 'Dhundi Saur Urja Utpadak Sahakari Mandali (DSUUSM)' in Kheda district- received the first payment of Rs 36,005 for selling 5,097 units electricity to the Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL) on Monday. Six farmers of Dhundi village in Kheda district's Thasra taluka, some …
Despite enjoying surplus power generation capacity, the Gujarat government is consolidating its power plants running on conventional technologies. The government is planning to either upgrade plants with sub-critical technology or replace these with new super-critical technology. According to state government sources, the move, though at a planning stage, is being …
The Environment Ministry has returned a “discriminatory” bank guarantee of Rs 100 crore that was collected from public-sector Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited (GSECL) during the time of UPA government while giving clearance for a new coal-based power plant that the company was setting up. The bank guarantee was apparently …
CM's statement that state has witnessed decline in malnutrition came amid claims and counter-claims over yet-to-be released UNICEF’s Rapid Survey on Children. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday asserted that malnutrition in Gujarat has fallen by 25 per cent over the last five years, and figures in the contentious UNICEF …
State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has bagged an order worth over Rs 3,500 crore for setting up a thermal power project in Gujarat. The contract has been awarded by the Gujarat State Electricity Corp Ltd. In a statement on Thursday, BHEL said the Rs 3,536 crore order is to …
Ahmedabad: Bamboo farming has changed the landscape of a village situated on the banks of River Mahor in Kheda district. Kaprupur, a hamlet of 3,000 people, has even won the Prime Minister’s excellence award for the success of MGNREGA. The villagers and panchayat used five hectare of wasteland on the …
Letter to M/s Gujarat State Electricity Corpn. Ltd. from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance of Expansion by addition of 1x800 MW (Extension Unit-8) Super-Critical Coal Based Thermal Power Plant at Wanakbori, in Thasara Taluk, in Distt. Kheda, in Gujarat dated December 2, 2013
Coming down heavily on Modi for his "toilets first, temples later" remark, Congress chief whip in the Assembly Balvantsinh Rajput on Monday said the CM should first follow that in his own state. To justify his comments, he based his argument on the 2011 census figures, according to which 42.70 …
Judgement of the High Court of Gujarat on the cutting of trees by the National Highways Authority of India, 14/10/2013 in the matter of Vikram Trivedi & vs Union Of India & Others. The petitioners are the owners of land bearing Survey/Block Nos.138, 137, 136 and 134 situated at Kajipura …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's child sex ratio (CSR) in the 0-6 age group has improved by seven points from 883 in 2001 to 890 in 2011. In last decade, Mehsana, the district with the lowest sex ratio of 801 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001- improved by 41 points and took its …
The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said. These districts are Vadodara, Bharuch, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Banashkantha, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kutchh, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot and Surendranagar, Nathwani said in a statement issued here quoting Harish Ravat, Union …
Mosquito control with the use of insecticides is faced with the challenges of insecticide resistance in disease vectors, community refusal, their high cost, operational difficulties, and environmental concern. In view of this, integrated vector control strategies with the use of larvivorous fishes such as Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and Gambusia (G. …
NADIAD: If you think 'Rakshabandhan' is all about sisters tying rakhis to their brothers, you may have to do a rethink. For this village in Nadiad has vowed to save water and to mark this event they have decided to tie Rakhis to all their water sources - be it …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has issued suo motu notice to the Anand Agricultural University (AAU) and the Kheda collector for allotment of gauchar land and decision taken to permit green felling on that land. Justice A S Dave sought explanation with regards to the decision of land allotment and …
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 …
Rainfall variability and associated remote sensing indices for vegetation are central to the development of early warning systems for epidemic malaria in arid regions. The considerable change in land-use practices resulting from increasing irrigation in recent decades raises important questions on concomitant change in malaria dynamics and its coupling to …
AHMEDABAD: Here is a shocker. The per capita greenhouse gases (GHG) contribution of a small district like Kheda is equivalent to per capita GHG emission of entire Europe. This is a startling revelation made by United Nation`s 2009 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report on Gujarat. The lack of …
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
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 …
