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As part of the campaign, the government will take help of volunteers and try to reach out to people. This will include making of short films on the theme and making them viral on social media by the volunteers.

Narmada is the most important source of water for Gujarat. This year, owing to record rainfall deficit in Narmada’s catchment areas in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat’s share of Narmada water has been halved.

The government’s decision comes amid the problems it is facing in acquiring land for the high-profile Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train and the  ongoing farmers’ protest in Bhavnagar district against a state power utility’s bid to possess the land it had acquired around 20 years ago.

After she was arrested by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the case, Kodnani and her family isolated themselves from public interactions.

According to waste water figures of eight municipal corporations, cited by the officers, around 3618 million litre per day (MLD) water is utilised in these corporations.

“Water is going to play a major role in all human and development-related activities in the coming years. In order to regulate the water management sector, the government has decided to establish Gujarat Water Regulatory Authority,” reads the February 14, 2012 government notification.

As per the current system, a ration cardholder can get the subsidised foodgrains, sugar and kerosene from the shop which has been allotted to him/her.

In January last year, a woman from Mumbai filed a complaint of gangrape at Naliya police station in Abdasa taluka of Gujarat’s Kutch district. Police lodged an FIR two days later, and booked 10 individuals for allegedly gangraping her for more than a year beginning August 2015.

Quoting the figures of Commissioner of Geology & Mining, the CAG states that the number of cases of illegal mining detected in Gujarat has increased every year, from 3,760 in 2011-12 to 7,622 in 2015-16.

The CAG has recommended the Gujarat government to “strictly adhere to its own policy of yearly revision of ASR, so as to plug the leakage of revenue”.

According to the data shared by Rural Development Minister Bachubhai, in Gujarat, more than 31.46 lakh families live below poverty line (BPL) and that number has increased by 18,932 in the last two years. Banaskantha district has the highest number of BPL families — 2,36,492.

Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani said, “Under the Gujarat Assembly rules, a member of the Assembly cannot be suspended for more than the session. Sub Section 2 of Section 52 is quite clear... I have brought this to the Speaker’s attention."

With a water crisis looming, Gujarat will soon stop supplying Narmada waters for irrigation. For farmers who depend on the canals that bring water to their fields, that’s bad news.

While observing that those judges from Ahmedabad would be knowing this better, Justice Tripathi said, “Is it not a matter of behavioural study and find out that as to why people are doing this?

Gujarat Budget 2018 highlights: Deputy CM and Gujarat Finance Minister Nitin Patel presented the Budget for 2018-19 today. Here are the highlights.

On January 12, the state government had issued a media release with an advisory to farmers, stating that Narmada water will be available for irrigation only until March 15.

In Gujarat, there are a total 287 ITI centres. And the course will be available at each of these centres. The course on GST will be one of the service sector-related courses of the ITIs.

Glanders, a respiratory system-related disease of equines, falls within the category of zoonotic diseases which can transmit from animals to humans.

The development is unprecedented as IBPT is an option to be pressed when water level in the dam falls to a level when it is no more possible to provide water to the canals through dam.