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 …
As half of India huddled in darkness earlier this week, Gujarat remained unaffected. The state now has ambitious plans of becoming India’s biggest solar power hub. But how viable is this source of energy? And is it easy on the pocket? Just off the road heading towards the salt pans …
AHMEDABAD: After many representations, the state water supply ministry has sanctioned a Rs 124 crore project for pipeline irrigation facilities in the Kakoshi division of Siddhpur taluka. The pipeline will be 30 km long. Farmers in this division have been requesting the state government for a canal network as the …
The April 28, 2012, issue of The Economist has a story on India’s solar power and mentions Charanka village in Patan district, Gujarat. Solar energy can be converted into electricity, using photovoltaics, or can be converted into heat. (There are other technologies too, but those aren’t important yet.) So far, …
Gujarat has received the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for 2010-11 for a watershed management programme in Patan district, the ancient capital of the western state. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, presented the award to Mr Ram Kumar, CEO of the Gujarat State Watershed Management Agency …
The Gujarat Government is planning to introduce a ‘roof-top solar power policy’ so that people can generate their own power and also earn money by selling the surplus to the power grid. Chief Minister Narendra Modi mooted this idea while speaking at Charanka village in Patan district while dedicating Asia’s …
Larsen & Toubro has commissioned a six-MW solar project for Sun Group in Gujarat. L&T; said the project, at Gujarat Solar Park in Patan district, was commissioned in a little over three months. The current capacity of the park is 215 MW. Sun Group is a leading principal investor and …
Gujarat, which is bathed in the sun’s rays for most part of the year, is considering coming up with a “rooftop” solar power plant policy to enable the people to produce their own electricity and earn money by selling surplus power to the grid, the Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, …
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 …
Gandhinagar: With summer setting in, the Narendra Modi government does not want to take any chances with rural folk in an election year. In a massive drive to make full use of Narmada waters across Gujarat for drinking purposes, complete plans have been worked out to ensure that not only …
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 …
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 …
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government, which announced with great fanfare last week a sharp increase in the release of Narmada waters from the Sardar Sarovar dam into the canal, to help farmers downstream, was forced to cut down the amount of water released to about one-third on Monday. Well-places sources in …
Mumbai-based PLG Power has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd for 40 MW of solar power. The cost per MW is estimated at Rs 15 crore, while the PPA agreement for 25 years pegs the unit cost (Kwh) at Rs 15 for the first …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is in talks with Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fund one of its most ambitious projects to promote solar energy
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: In an important decision of far-reaching consequences for investors wanting to set up shop in Ahmedabad and north Gujarat, the state government has decided to come up with a law that will go a long way in facilitating poor farmers to sell the land they …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Facing sharp criticism from technocrats and after strong queries from the Centre, the Gujarat government has been forced to scale down the proposal to lay down underground pipelines to irrigate 18.24 lakh hectares (ha) area with Narmada waters. The proposal was meant to skirt the …
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
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The canal work by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) to bring Narmada water to parched districts is progressing at a very slow pace. In one year the government has completed canal work of just 1,758 km. This was stated in a reply to RTI …
