Gujarat Announces Policy for small-scale Solar Power Generation

 

Aspiring to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambition for raising the renewable power generation in the country, the Gujarat government on Wednesday announced a 'small scale distribution solar project' policy for producers of up to 500 KW to 4 megawatts (MW).

Energy and Petrochemical Minister Saurabh Patel said, "Gujarat's geographical situation has vast and immense potential for renewable power generation such as solar and wind energy. We have framed a policy for small power producers of solar projects wherein even owner of a small waste land will be able to generate power and sell it in the state."

According to the policy, private landowners who have waste and non-productive land will be able to set up solar power projects with a capacity between 500 kilo watts to 4 MW.

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Vijay Rupani launches ‘Mission Women Empowerment’

  

With an aim to give power push to Women Empowerment in a state. Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Vijay Rupani launched Mission Women Empowerment in a function. Entire function is organized under the guidance and leadership of Gujarat Urban Co-operative Banks Federation. GUCNF also distributed the tablets to 20 women to bring the digitization in a state. 

In his speech, Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Vijay Rupani said that BJP government is already giving 50% reservations to women in panchayats and he also said that State Government has launched several women welfare schemes based on women development. Gujarat CM said that our government steadily takes step towards Prime Minister's call Digital India. 

Shri Vijay Rupani said that Gujarat Government is emphasized to start digital virtual classrooms in every school with a target to bring next generation in a digital era. Under the Digital Gujarat mission government is steadily achieving the goals and milestone. Read More News Like This: Click

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CM Smt. Anandiben Patel Reaffirming Commitments Towards Women Empowerment

Smt. Anandiben Patel is completed 150 days as Chief Minister of Gujarat. During this time she is doing so many development works for Gujarat. Women Empowerment is key point. CM Anandiben Patel gives more priority to make state women empower so, that they are also contribute to make gujarat better in comparison to other state. 

If we notice that we literally see that women empowerment ration is increase in Gujarat and women who live in gujarat are feel more safe in comparison to other state and all this is possible because of our Gatisheel CM shri Anandiben Patel. She always reaffirming commitment towards women empowerment. 

Her governance provides bank assistance to 17831 women groups under mission mangalam. Governance is truly feel the problems about tribal women and state government given the assistance of cattle-rearers to 10,490 tribal women. 

CM Smt. Anandiben Patel also given bicycle to tribal girls for studying in standard IX. Gujarat takes long steps if talking about women empowerment. Governance set up around 3,669 horticulture centers for women, against the target of 2,000. 

CM also helps to widows of state. She make “Vidhwa Sahay Yojana” scheme for that and under this project government help more than 31,000 widows. This is like glimpse of development work which is done by the government under the leadership of Shri Anandiben Patel. However there are other many works government still doing and gets quite good success in it. 

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CM Smt. Anandiben Patel Attended Co-operative Convention of BJP at Gandhinagar

As we all know that Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Anandiben Patel an active chief minister and she often take surprise visit to check last person gets the benefit of scheme which are issued by the government. Anandiben attended co-operative convention of BJP’s north-central zone at Gandhinagar and guide all party workers to their duty towards state. 

Shri Anandiben Patel said during her speech in convention that people and many other communities like our government’s mantras “Sauno Saath Sauno Vikas (Stay Together, Develop Together)” and I’m sure on the basis of this we gets quite good positive response on BJP’s membership drive program from citizens.

She also appeals workers to aware citizens about the development work which is done in state. CM said that almost 1 crore and 65 lakh people are connected with this co-operative convention. By joining this you become a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. She said to party workers that create awareness of government scheme and facilities, so that citizens can take more and more benefit of it. 

At the end CM Shri also gives the preference to cleanliness and a (SwachhGujarat) campaign which she run to keep Gujarat clean. There are other politicians and party leaders are also present in this function. 

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Achievements of Anandiben Patel During her Nine Months Tenure

Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Anandiben Patel is completed 9 months as chief minister yesterday. After the Narendra Modi people aspect a lots of development works in Gujarat from the Anandiben Patel, and without any doubt Anandiben Patel fulfill almost every desire of people. Gujarat runs quite good and well under the guidance of smt. Anandiben Patel and it will be.

On the day of 22th may,2014 Anandiben Patel took the responsibility as chief minister. Yesterday spokesperson as well as minister Shri Nitin Patel and Saurabh Patel has focus on the achievements of developments as well as good decision taken under the governance of Smt. Anandiben Patel.

These are achievements which is Anandiben Patel achieved during her nine month tenure.

• She organized more than 320 government as well as private program
• She arranged meeting with almost about 132 Indian industrialists, delegates and dignitaries held
• She truly support women empowerment that is why she Encourage to women in animal husbandry sector. She honored 6,375 women too.
• She provides 33% reservation for women in all government jobs, including all cadres in police department.
• During the governance of her Agriculture production reached to 93.82 lakh MT
• She wish to fulfill the Digital India dream and that why she declared changes in IT policy, Electronic Policy and e-Governance as well.
• Through Diamond Bourse and construction of dream city Surat she created more than 1 lakh jobs.

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Women Empowerment - A Visionary Step Towards Development

India is the country where respecting women and protecting their honor has been long standing tradition. Here, women are considered to be the embodiment of the goddess of the strength, wealth and wisdom in their various forms. The birth of girl child in the family is said to be the blessings of goddess of good fortune upon the family.

ln the backdrop of this culture, when some women of certain sections of the society do not receive the benefits that are their fundamental rights and that deter their development, the need rises to take certain measures to ensure that all sections or the society are strong and grow equally.

In Gujarat, inclusive development has been emphasized upon for all the development activities that take place. In the last decade, the former Chief Minister Narendra Modi laid emphasis on this idea of inclusive development, and women have been a very important part of this.

Anandiben Patel, the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat, stresses on the subject or emancipation of women which is vital and close to her heart as the CM of the state. Gujarat has a large population of women residing in the state. She recognize that if this woman-power is involved in the economic activities and independent decision making, it will contribute to a great extent towards development of the state. It is said that if a man progresses, it is his personal achievement, or the achievement of one family unit. But if a woman progresses, it is the progress of the whole society and generations to come.

With this vision of the Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, the Gujarat Government took up this mission to give further impetus to the upliftment of women in the state.

Many steps have been taken in this regard in the past. Revolutionary steps like relief on stamp duty if agricultural land is on a Woman's name. including women's names in the papers of the property granted by the government in earthquake relief programme, empowering the anganwadi workers to encourage them, are all a step towards uplifting the status of women in the society.

Women empowerment gives a new energy to the development of a State, and this is the Vision of the CM with which she gave rise to the idea of Gatisheel Gujarat.

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Saputara Monsoon Festival

“Desh Ki Ankhon Ka Tara”, or a sparkle in the eyes of the country, Saputara is Gujarat’s own hill station in the Sahyadri region. B it for a week trip, or a family vacation, saputara is a must visit especially during the monsoons.

The scenic beauty and route Saputara is breathtaking. The lake in Saputara is brimming with the rain water. Waterfalls with sights of rainbows during the monsoon make for a wonderful experience.  Every year during the monsoons, the Tourism department of Gujarat arranges a month-long festival for tourists to enjoy Saputara at its best. This year, the saputara monsoon festival received a grand inauguration with groups of tourists in large numbers visiting here to enjoy their holidays.  

Saputara monsoon festival is a celebration of Nature at its best. With the popularity that the festival has achieved in the past 3 years, this year tourists flocked in large numbers, especially from neighbouring states for a short holiday. According to Khyati Naik, spokesperson for Gujarat Tourism Board, the tourist flow in Saputara has registered a phenomenal 28% increase in 2013 compared to last year. In 2013, 3.86 lakh tourists had visited Saputara compared to 2.90 lakh visitors in 2012.

The tourism department had arranged for many fun activities for the  tourists to enjoy, like water games. Apart from this, the tourists could enjoy more than 13 adventure sports activities. Saputara is like heaven for the people of Gujarat who wants more enjoyment in less budget.

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LokSamvad Setu - Building A Bridge Between People and Government

In a democratic government set up, it is the duty of the government to understand the problems of their people and redress any such issues. For the country and the state, as populated and diverse like ours, it is essential to ensure that the distance between the government and people remains minimal. There has to be a ‘bridge’ which connects people to the government. The idea of good governance which the State of Gujarat firmly believes in can only be released when the government puts aside the old approach and proactively strives to redress the common man's grievances.

This endeavor requires creating a mechanism with the help of which, the government officials are apprised of the people’s problems, especially at a district and taluka level._ For this, former Chief Minister Narendra Modi adopted a two-pronged strategy along the lines of Mahatma Gandhi's idea of Gram Swaraj. At one hand, 'Aapno Taluko, Vibrant Taluko' programme was launched with an aim to decentralize administrative power and to provide all public services at the local level. On the other hand, the programme — ‘SWAGAT online’ — was launched, a scheme through which the Chief minister can directly listen to the problems of the people and provide solutions to their grievances. This very popular programme, a ray of hope for common people. has also bagged the United Nation's Public Service` award.

Giving further impetus to this endeavour, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Anandiben Patel launched Loksamvad Setu programme on August 01, 2014 at Matar in Kheda district.. This was done with a view to resolve people's grievances in a time-bound manner at the local level_ The first loksamvad setu saw positive redressal to 160 issues of the people.

Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has taken forward the former CM Narendra Modi's idea of inclusive governance and given it a further impetus under the idea of ‘Gatisheel Gujarat'. She has taken up the initiative to continue leading the stale on the path of development, but with a greater speed and force. 'Loksamvad Setu' is an important part of this greater goal, to ensure immediate redressal of all issues so that Gujarat reaches its goal of development faster.

'Loksamvad’ is a Gujarati word which literally translates to 'Dialogue with people', and the word "Setu” means bridge. “Loksamvad Setu” aims to be a bridge of communication between the people and the government.

The Government used various media of mass communication to acquaint people with this programme and to call for submission of their taluka and district level issues, People took this opportunity and put forward their problems_ These were then sent to the concerned district/taluka offices. The concerned offices resolved the problems and informed the applicants about it in written during the programme,

MPs, MLAs, District Panchayat Presidents, Panchayat members of the concerned talukas and municipality chairman were invited to the programme. Besides, officials including district collector, District Development Officer, district police chief and taluka office head also attended the programme.

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A Little Information About Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation

Energy has always been a key and leading driver of growth and development of any society. Energy consumption in India continues to grow consistent with the demand for sustained economic growth. With the path breaking initiatives of Government of Gujarat in the energy Sector, particularly in the Oil and Gas sector, tremendous growth is being witnessed in this field. The vital infrastructure projects being undertaken currently would not only be a catalyst for economic growth, such intervention would most certainly improve the quality of human life in the direction of the avowed objective of faster and more inclusive growth.

GSPC is a leading player in the Oil & Gas sector. GSPC's Oil & Gas portfolio has increased to 64 blocks which includes 53 domestic blocks and 11 international blocks spread internationally, across Egypt, Yemen, Australia and Indonesia. In the midstream section of the value chain, Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL), a subsidiary of GSPC has emerged as a leading gas transportation player in the State. With a view to promote use of clean, green and efficient fuel for the small and medium enterprise; as well as for commercial, households and automobile sectors, Government of Gujarat as embarked on an ambitious plan to set up city Gas distribution projects across all the districts in the State.

To fulfill this vision, GSPC Gas Company Ltd. was incorporated in 2005 with mission to develop a gas distribution network complementary to GSPL’s Gas grid spread across Gujarat state. At every locations where GSPL gas network ends,  the GSPC gas retail network starts and this has resulted in a strongly synergy of network management besides ensuring that gas is adequately available to all retail segments in Gujarat with highest level of service standards with complete focus on health, safety and environment.

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