Dec 2018

GUJARAT Gujarat CM approves Rs 50 crore SIT fund   Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani  approved Rs 50-crore Science & Technology Innovation (STI) Fund to provide assistance of up to Rs 50 lakh to UGC and AICTE-recognised central and state universities and colleges for a maximum period of three years to develop latent talents, encourage creativity research … Read more

GUJARAT Gujarat government approves eleven TP schemes   Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani  approved 11 town planning schemes (TP schemes), including 8 draft TP schemes for Ahmedabad. With the approval of these draft schemes, the development of roads and infrastructure in these areas will be increase.   In last 9 months, in the city of Ahmedabad, more than 28,000 … Read more

GUJARAT Surat to be world’s fastest growing city during 2019-35: Report   Surat, renowned as a diamond processing and trading hub in Gujarat, would be the world’s fastest growing city in the 2019-35 period, according to a global economic research report.   Besides Surat, the other nine cities are Agra, Bengaluru Hyderabad, Nagpur, Tiruppur, Rajkot, … Read more

GUJARAT 10 years of continuous study in state not mandatory for domicile: Gujarat High Court   The Gujarat High Court had set aside the state government’s decision to cancel the domicile certificate of four medical and dental students on the ground that they had not completed 10 years of continuous study in Gujarat. The court … Read more

GUJARAT Gujarat loses top spot in e-way bills in Nov   Soon after generation of e-way bills was made mandatory in April this year, Gujarat generated the highest number of e-way bills for inter-state movement of goods and remained the top state on this count in the country. However, in November, Gujarat lost its top … Read more

GUJARAT Gujarat’s rivers are degenerating   The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had directed Gujarat to take immediate note of the deteriorating condition of 20 rivers, of which five were classified under priority 1. Under this category, the rivers had some of the highest values of biological oxygen demand (BOD), which measures the amount of decaying … Read more