AHMEDABAD: The city may finally get much-awaited eco-friendly systems for disposal of construction debris and animal carcasses.

Ahmedabad: Gujarat CM Narendra Modi often criticizes the Centre for injustices meted out to Gujarat.

Veer Energy & Infrastructure Ltd, a Mumbai-based wind power developer, plans to invest Rs 500 crore to augment capacity on its existing projects and also to diversify into solar energy.

The company has successfully completed a 200-Mw wind farm project and another 115-Mw project is currently in pipeline. The firm also plans to launch a 200-Mw of project in Gujarat.

Surat: A high density corridor will be developed in the diamond city to boost growth and solve transportation problems in its new areas.

It would be 29 km long and would come up along the 66 km Outer Ring Road where there is maximum residential and commercial development. The project is slated to begin immediately after the assembly elections. The total cost of the Outer Ring Road project is estimated at Rs 5,500 crore and it will earn a revenue of Rs 11,500 crore through sale of FSI, etc. for Surat Urban Development Authority (SUDA) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).

The UN has chosen Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) as a showcase project to highlight that addressing climate change is not a burden, but an opportunity to improve the lives of people.

It stoutly opposes Gujarat Forest Department proposal to divert land

The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBW) has put its foot down against the laying of a road across the Kutch desert sanctuary — the largest breeding ground of flamingos in the entire Indian subcontinent — following a site report by an experts panel that the construction would wipe out the population of the already endangered bird.

Gujarat Produces 25,000 Tonnes Of Solid Waste Daily

Gandhinagar: Government and industry need to take pro-active measures to scale up solid waste treatment to derive alternate fuel, while looking for a substitute to landfill sites. This was decided by the members of union government’s Forum for Co-processing of Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Waste at a meeting in the state capital on Monday.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has quashed the acquisition process for 155 land parcels which were acquired by the state government for the development of the Poshitra Port area. The plan for the development of this project has been shelved by Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) and the state because the project has not secured due environment clearance.

After GMB planned the project in 1997, the state government issued a notification in 1999 for the acquisition of land in the vicinity of the proposed port for development. The award for the acquisition was decided in 2001, but it was declared after much delay, in 2008.

AHMEDABAD: If you thought malaria and dengue affected only slums or lower-middle class localities, you are mistaken.

Last month, consolidated data showed that western and posh new western parts of the city accounted for a large chunk of vector-borne diseases. The western and new western parts of the city reported 312 malaria cases, while the northern part of the city recorded the least — 57 cases. This, according to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) was because of greater incidence of relapses.

As many as four companies have evinced interest in buying bauxite calcination plant run by state-owned mining major Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The plant having a production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year is located in Kutch district.

The state PSU had floated tenders to sell this plant, which is in working condition, in September this year. "Four companies have shown interests in buying the plant from GMDC," said sources close to the development. While the plant is in working condition, it is not producing at optimum levels, making it financially unviable. The current output is 160 tonnes a day.