Surat Beat

New city BJP appointmentsThe president of the Surat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party Pravin Naik has restructured the party apparatus. ...

New city BJP appointments
The president of the Surat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party Pravin Naik has restructured the party apparatus. Kanubhai Joshi was appointed general secretary, while former mayor Navneet Jariwala, Ashok Doctor, K D Vaghani and Jagannathbhai Patil were appointed vice-presidents.

Nitinbhai Bhajiawala, Prakashben Sharma, Kanubhai Gundran and Suresh Varodia were named secretaries. Kishorbhai Vankawala was appointed treasurer while Dashrathsinh Shekhawat was named organising secretary. Nitaben Satbhaya was named as Mahila Morcha President, while Jitubhai Barot was retained as president of Yuva Morcha.

All four MLAs from the city, Hemantbhai Chapatwala, Dhirubhai Gajera, Gulabdas Khasi and Narottambhai Patel, the mayor, the deputy mayor and the standing committee chairman are permanent invitees along with other senior leaders like SUDA chairman Arvind Godiwala, former mayor Fakirbhai Chauhan and former MLA Kanubhai Mawani.

Heavy rains
Heavy rains lashed the city on Wednesday night as also for a couple of hours on Thursday bringing the temperature down. The sky remained overcast for a major part of the day as visibility was considerably low throughout the afternoon. Fire brigade attended to three short circuit calls from Kantareshwar Mahadev in Katargam, Rampura main road and Bhatar Citizen Tower areas. No other untoward incident was registered during the day. Palsana, Olpad, Mahuva, Bardoli and Mandvi talukas received moderate to heavy rains. The water level in the Ukai reservoir was 327.15 feet, Kakrapar 158 feet and Amli Dam 112.60 feet.

Premium
Insurance companies have paid Rs 1.06 crore in insurance to farmers who either died or were incapacitated by accident. The state government pays premium to the companies on behalf of farmers. The scheme also covers deaths caused by snake bite as also by other poisonous insects and animals. The insured gets up to Rs 20,000. As many as 539 farmers benefited from the scheme.

HSC Oct list
The district education officer has asked managements of higher secondary schools to collect from N D Jhaveri High School in Gopipura the list of students appearing in the higher secondary examinations, scheduled to be held in October. The lists will be distributed by the representative of Gujarat Secondary Education Board.

Petition filed
Silvassa-based Advocate S R Rakeshe has filed a writ petition in the Mumbai High Court challenging the 8220;Constitutional void in union territories of Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli8221; where a constitutional post of administrator is lying vacant for the last two months following transfer of administrator S P Aggarwal on June 25. It is for the first time in the history of post-independent India that the post of an administrator has remained vacant for such long time, leading to administrative problems. Neither has a new administrator been appointed, nor charge is being given to competent persons. The constitutional void amounts to failure of the union government, the advocate has said in the petition. The case will come up for hearing on Friday.

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