The double decker bus to be introduced in Gandhinagar will have a seating capacity of 75 and will run on Euro-IV diesel engine which costs Rs 38 lakh. “This is environmentally safe and has less emission,” claims Dhodhiya.
On eve of World Cancer Day on Friday, there were a number of young men who were battling for life in hospitals because they could not kick the addiction of tobacco.
In Ahmedabad as well as in Gujarat, spread of oral cancer is alarming. “Oral cancer accounts for 40 per cent cancers in men in the state. This is because of high addiction to gutkha,” said noted head and neck cancer surgeon of HCG Medisurge, Dr Kaustubh Patel.
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector com
Surat: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) chairman Dr KU Mistry said more development means more responsibilities for the industries, adding that growth at the cost of environment can’t take place.
He said pollution level has to be monitored and accountability of the industries fixed. “We are not against industries, but they can’t grow at the cost of environment. Both must survive.” Mistry promised cooperation towards speedy approval for a new site for solid waste disposal and final effluent treatment plant for the chemical and textile industries of the city.
