In a setback for the Ahmedabad-based Adani Group’s Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited, an environment ministry committee, citing incontrovertible evidence, recommended levying a fine of

Company intends to invest Rs 35 cr in the new facility

Mumbai-based diversified chemicals player, Aarti Industries Ltd will set up a fertiliser manufacturing facility at Jhagadia in Bharuch district. The company intends to invest around Rs 35 crore towards the new facility. “This will be an expansion of our existing chemicals facility at Jhagadia. The new fertilisers facility will have the annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) of single super phosphate fertiliser,” said Rajendra Gogri, chairman and managing director.

The BG group will hand over control of Gujarat Gas to GSPC by the end of this month after the stateowned company acquired a controlling 73.7% stake for . 2,810 crore.

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is ready with its housing policy for urban areas. The policy is expected to be unveiled within a month. Sources say that the government will be announcing two sub-policies on slum rehabilitation and affordable housing in the cities simultaneously.

The government plans to build 22 lakh houses in the urban areas over the next five years out of which seven lakh are meant for rehabilitation of slum dwellers. The government has already got a survey of slums done in various cities.

Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has set up an oxygen factory on Sun Pharma Road in the city. The factory, however, is no industrial plant, but a plantation of trees – including the banyan tree after which the city is named – that generate high amounts of oxygen.

In the first experiment of its kind, VMC has planted 236 banyan trees and 70 peepal trees in the one hectare land besides the main road. These include 32 banyan trees that were planted about six years ago. The remaining trees were planted two years ago.

Setting the path for similar relief for other power projects, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), on Monday, ordered a compensatory tariff package for Tata Power-owned 4,000 MW Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) over and above the tariff agreed in the power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Releasing its order on a petition filed by Tata Power seeking compensation in the shape of hike in tariff for the sudden rise in price of coal imported from Indonesia, the CERC said a committee should be constituted within one week comprising representatives of Principal Secretary (Power), managing directors of the distribution companies of the procurer states,

The pride of Gujarat will have to be shared with Madhya Pradesh this year, with the Supreme Court ruling that some of the Asiatic lions currently found only in the famed Gir sanctuary must be shifted to Madhya Pradesh within six months.

However, the Centre’s dreams of bringing another big cat to India — the extinct cheetah — have been further deflated, with the apex court slamming any attempt to import African cheetahs.

Excerpts From The Supreme Court’s Judgment Ordering The Translocation Of Lions From Gujarat To Madhya Pradesh

APPLICATION FOR INTERVENTION IS ALLOWED
We have been called upon to decide the necessity of a second home for Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica), an endangered species, for its long term survival and to protect the species from extinction as issue rooted on eco-centrism, which supports the protection of all wildlife forms, not just those which are of instrumental value to humans but those which have intrinsic worth.

At the honk of a water tanker, hundreds of women in Bedi village dash to Khari Chowk, leaving aside all other errands.

Underground Water In Well Depleting Fast

Surat:If Manjuben Chaudhary of Dinbari village does not wake up at 3.30 am, she will have to walk at least five km in scorching sun to fetch water. She has to reach the village well by 4 am sharp or else her turn to fill water would come after four hours.
Reeling under severe scarcity, this tribal hamlet in Valsad’s Kaprada taluka has been forced to chalk out a timetable for villagers to fill water from the well, the only source of potable water for its 2,000 villagers. Residents of all faliyas (lanes) have been given fixed time to fetch water from the well.