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Reliance plastic thieves arrested from jamnagar

In a combined operation, jamnagar police managed to arrest 14 member gang who confessed in stealing reliance refinery granules loaded truck near refinery. Most of these gang members were employee of the transport contractors within the refinery, jamnagar police could identify them from CCTV of reliance refinery. Most of the looted booty was sold in Gujarat or Rajasthan. Jamnagar police also found that they used to loot commodities and costly items.

RIL Jamnagar Let Threat - Security tight

With threat to Reliance refinery from pakistan based militant group LeT, security has been tightened across refinery.

Although more details are awaited, but contractors and visitors confirmed the tightning of security around jamnagar reliance refinary complex

RIL to start 4G Trials in Refinery

RIL is starting its grand plans of broadband revolution in India, starting with 4G trials in Jamnagar reliance refinery, read more on http://www.halar.org/page/RIL-4G-Plans-India-jamnagar.aspx

Dwarka Oceanarium Updates

One more news regarding the Dwarka Oceanarium was release to press yesterday.

Since June 2010, Reliance Industries and Govt. of Gujarat has started working on this project on PPP (Public private partnership) bases, this project is developed by Gujarat Ecology commission and Marine National Park.

The project is aimed to create new generation oceanarium with a central tunnel with 360 degree view of ocean life.

Further to this, this facility will have touch pool, 4D theatre, gaming zone, Mall, gift shop and various hotels and concert hall.

RIL - Unit under planned shutdown

Reliance Industries Ltd's Jamnagar Unit announced the planned shutdown of one of the crude unit at Jamnagar complex.

One of the CDU stream is shut down for planned maintenance since 10th Feb. This unit will undergo inspection and maintenance jobs in Reliance Unit .

Some productivity measures will also be taken during this shutdown, one of the unit will have its distillation catalyst replaced.

The stream will complete its maintenance and resume operations by early march.

Jamnagar - RIL under maintenance in Feb.

Jamnagar Reliance Petroleum Complex will go under a planned maintenance for 3 weeks this February.

This will be a first maintenance after the plant got commissioned in 2008/09. Main component of the refinery, Crude distillation unit will also be under maintenance.

Three other distillation units in Jamnagar Reliance Refinery will be operating at capacity though.

Rupee Depreciation - Jamnagar Brass Parts

Jamnagar brass parts is hit by recent depreciation in the rupee, looks like around 80% of unit are down to around 5-6 hours of work with almost no business in site, read detailed explanation at
http://www.halar.org/post/2011/12/16/Jamnagar-Brass-Parts-Rupee-Depreciation-hitting-hard.aspx

11 Lakh worth material stolen from Reliance

Iron flange, scrap and valve etc. amounting to around 11 Lakh worth was stolen from Jamnagar Reliance Refinery Complex, a police FIR was lodged and investigation is on the way, four suspects are absconding right now.

Dwarka Sadbhavna updates

Dwarka witnessed 2 fast one by CM and another by Jamnagar MP Vikram Madam, this leads to force curfew like situation in nearby town of Okha,



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Shops in Dwarka were open, as Dwarka is a major pilgrim centre, Hotels and restaurants were left with no food as around 40-50 thousand people stuffed this small town.

Few agitators who were protesting against Tata Chemicals factory in Dwarka were asked to move, to pave road for CM's motorcade passing by, On the other hand, local MP Vikram Madam was not allocated govt. guest house, hence he spend the night on road near the Reliance Guest house.

Modi, announced that he vowed to bring the "Truth of Gujarat" to the world. From Dwarka CM Modi flagged the Sadbhavna Misssion 2.0.

In next phase, Modi will vow to fast in each district in Gujarat, it seems Mr. Modi has ambitious plans for next election in Gujarat scheduled in 2012.

Raj Thackeray to visit Jamnagar

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray will be visiting Jamnagar as apart of his week long Gujarat tour starting from August 3.

Raj Thackeray will visit many development projects in Gujarat and will also visit Reliance refinery and desalination plant in Jamnagar.

Raj Thackeray, though very much against north Indians in Mumbai, has maintained a balance for Gujarati in Mumbai, considering significant presence of Gujarati in Mumbai vote bank.

Parliamentary standing committee visited Refineries

A JPC visited Reliance and Essar refineries, read more at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/07/25/Refineries-Parliamentary-standing-committee-visit.aspx

Brass Parts Industry - Help on the way

In a recent move, GTU and Techpedia started innovative approach to help revive the brass parts business in Jamnagar, read more at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/07/18/Brass-Parts-MoU-to-understand-business-challanges.aspx

Appeal to citizens, keep the city clean.

Since childhood, I have seen jamnagar as it is today, same dust, crippled infrastructure, no access to public utility, very tough public transport and above all the only visiting place in city, Lakhota palace and lake in totally dismal condition.

Have left the city since last 13 years or so, every time I visit Jamnagar, I always had one hope, this time the road from railway station to city will at least be pothole free, Lakhota will be clean and the walls around it will be mended, all the near by gardens will have some signs of nature, those gardens won't be a open gambling place. Like new buildings of
State and city administration, i could see at least cleaned up and un-fractured public utility places.

And every time, my expectations managed to exceed ground reality, the ground reality is same in every "growing" city in India.

Where are the roads that I always dreamed, where is the clean city, where are dustbins, where are cleaners that I am sure JMC is showing in their annual accounts, where is the supposedly infrastructure expected by a municipal corporation of a city that has world largest grass root refinery, the city that contributes around 25-30% share in petroleum produce of this country, the city that has brass parts industries, defense, natural reservoirs, exotic beaches like Pirotan and narara.

Alas, it is a dream, and the reality check is far away from the dream, city administration does not care, nor any politicians, administrative officials or any citizen of this city, Yes, we all are equally responsible for the state of this city.

We citizens, clean our house, throw the trash outside, hoping those whom we pay tax will collect it for us, they will keep this city as clean and shining as we do with our house, we park our vehicles wherever we like, we ride them as if a child is learning how to play with a remote control car, we do push our kids to clean the house, but we don't teach them to keep the garbage in dustbin when we are out, we don't care to follow traffic, stay organized and of course maintain public cleanliness.

And we blame administration for not doing enough, if they are not doing enough, we all are equally responsible.

Anjali news channel has recently started campaign for saving Lakhota lake, let us all join and contribute all we can to make our city "Paris" again.

Sanjiv Bhatt, brass parts and more

IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's provocation to Modi is likely to cost him dearly. In first of the many hits to come, a 21-year-old case against police atrocity has been revived for hearing. This case was related to the death of a person in custody. During this period Bhatt was an ASP posted in Jamnagar.

Brass parts prices are in news again, for the recent up rise in brass parts raw material price and how its hitting Jamnagar brass industry, read more http://halar.org/post/2011/05/25/Brass-Parts-Prices-hitting-Industry.aspx

The RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of Rupees 2 Lakh on the "Commercial Co-operative Bank Ltd" for violating KYC norms, bank was found to be not following the rules in its stationery and advertisements, bank also violated norms for making extra, and probably suspicious donation beyond prescribed limit, bank had already submitted reply for the show cause notice issued by RBI.

Bank Manager caught batting, Bangladeshi nabbed in Mithapur

A bank manager of Lalpur co-operative bank was caught along with few others while gambling on cricket in Lalpur, also cash of around 50 thousand, a TV set and mobile phones were taken in custody from them.

In another crime news, a Bangladeshi was caught in Mithapur, raising more questions of national safety near the sea-shore areas, it is to note that one Bangladeshi national was caught a month earlier from Reliance refinery, many Bangladeshi nationals are working in industries around Jamnagar without proper documents and this could be an issue with national security.

Ram Navami Celebrations in Jamnagar

Come 12th April and Jamnagar will be celebrating Ram Navami, Jamnagar's Mahadev Har Mitra Mandal will be organising floats, food and fun filled celebration across the town.

"Ram Savari" will start from Bala Hanumam temple on Tuesday afternoon and will route through Havai-Chowk, Mandavi Tower, Bardhan Chowk, Chandi Bazaar, Dipak Talkies, Bedi Gate etc. organisers have places refreshment counters at various locations.

Sewage water plant for Jamnagar

Inaugurating India's first National Centre of Marine Bio-diversity (NCMB) in Jamnagar Jairam Ramesh sent a clean and clear message to rest of the India, green is the way to go.

With this he announced a brand new sewage treatment plant that will be setup at estimate of 90 crore rs..

NCMB project is a of PPP project in collaboration with Reliance industries Limited, Jairam Ramesh added that he had already talked to Mukesh Ambani who agreed to contribute to this project.
The central government would grant Rs20 crore and Reliance would contribute Rs10 crore for NCMB.

Brass Parts - Scrap price rise is killing the business

Brass part industry is recovering from global slowdown, but burning rates of brass scrap has made life terrible for the brass parts manufacturing here in Jamnagar.

In may Brass scraps rate were 8200 USD / ton , which is now 9400 USD / ton, this price rise translated to around 275 rs rise in per kg amout of brass scrap in city.
Jamnagar brass part association is asking local MP to appeal this to govt.

SIBUR - RIL : Plant Confirmed in Jamnagar

Reliance Industries confirmed the speculation of tie-up with Russian rubber giant Sibur and both company will setup a plant in Jamnagar costing around USD 450 million,

with initial capacity of 100,000 ton, this plant will be commissioned in late 2013.
SIBUR will be solution partner and RIL will supply monomers and provide the JV with world-class infrastructure and utilities
The agreement to this effect was signed during the recent visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.