Flight hoax call made authorities run

A hoax call to Jamnagar Airport saying that a Jamnagar bound flight from Mumbai was hijacked made authorities run to Airport.

Jamnagar Fire brigade, Special commando force of Jamnagar police and collector of Jamnagar rushed to the spot, only to find that it was a mock drill arranged by local administration.
A NSG commando team from New Delhi also reached while the mock drill was being executed.

Global Bird Watchers Conference Ends

"Excellent" was the term used by many dignitaries and bird watcher enthusiast who gathered for the first time in Jamnagar for the Global bird watchers conference 2010.

Three day long Global Bird Watchers Conference ended on Friday with Narara hiking and Pirotan excursion, foreigners were excited to see diversified flora and fauna of the Gujarat state and especially of Jamnagar. Bird watchers from far west and Europe were thrilled to see that excellent marine biology exists just beside a well maintained aquatic bird reserve Khijadia.
Khijadia was main attraction of the conference, around 400 visitors spotted more then 180 species of birds in Khijadia, many writers and bloggers commented appreciation for this wonderful place.
Conference also displayed many research papers and documents from many bird experts.
CM Narendra Modi, Tourism Minister Jai Narayan Vyas and Jam Sahib Shri ShatruShalyaji promised to declare early winter period a Bird Watching season from next year onwards to boost eco tourism.

RIL Jamnagar - Secured by CISF

Mukesh Ambani finally managed to get CISF cover for RIL.

Starting this month a new contingent of CISF's elite commando forces will guard the world's biggest refinery. RIL's Jamnagar refinery has been the prime target for terrorist, as it's a pride of the nation's infrastructure. This elite combat commando contingent has 217 CISF personnels.
Reliance Group ED P K Kapil earlier this month hoisted the CISF flag in Refinery premises and flagged off Quick Reaction Commando Teams.
Kapil formally passed over the security baton to CISF Unit Commander S K Pandey.
CISF will be moving its units for more then 300 units; this includes very sensitive installations like nuclear, space establishments, airports, sea ports, power plants and Delhi metro. CISF will also cover all major navratna companies and host of PSUs.

Antilla : Mukesh Ambani house warming ceremony

Come November 28th and the world's richest house will welcome its owner, the richest man in India - Mukesh Ambani.

27 storey building is already under heavy preparation for housewarming ceremony, six levels of parking garage are getting arranged for more then 200 special visitors who will be attending house warming ceremony.

Residential Tower called "Antilla" is highest searched house on internet, thanks to its owner Mukesh Ambani and IPL owner Nita Ambani's levish spending; gross cost of the house is approx 2 bln USD. Total floor area of 37,000 Sq Meters will be called home for five people.

Mukesh Ambani heads the biggest company in India, Reliance Industries. Reliance is the world's biggest producer of polyester fibres and yarns and accounts for almost 15 percent of India's exports.

Reliance Petrochemical Complex’s Jamnagar refinery Unit produces 40% of petroleum need of the country and this single refinery complex produces 5% of world’s petrochemical needs.

40K Crore RIL Expansion plan leaked in media

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to increase capacity of the Jamnagar refinery and will be making it as biggest refinery in the world.

RIL will invest more then 40,000 crore by 2014.

Off the 40K crore, 15K crore will alone be spent on the prestigious cracker project, this craker will decompose crude into Ethylene, propylene, low-density polyethylene and monoethylene glycol etc.

Second pie of 15K crore will be ised in coke gasification plant.

Small investments like supporting projects would cost Rs. 4,000 crore. it will have a crude distillation unit (CDU) that would utilize crude from Cairn.

For the first time "J3" a code name for Jamnagar refinery expansion was mentioned in the media. This news may flash during ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ conference for global investors to be held in January.

GL estimates net profit for RIL from 2011 to 2014 between 17-18 Bln USD.

Heavy Rains Marooned Khambhaliya , Jamnagar District

Last 2 days, heavy rains marooned entire Jamnagar district, and Jamnagar city received 5 inch more rain

And Khambhaliya completed century (100 inch) of rain.

Details of total rainfall as under

Area	Today's Rain (mm)	Today's Rain (inch)	Total Rain (mm)	Total Rain (inch)
Khambhaliya	287	11.48	2547	101.88
Jamnagar	134	5.36	2031	81.24
Dhrol	84	3.36	675	27
Kalavad	93	3.72	903	36.12
Lalpur	81	3.24	1903	76.12
Kalyanpur	44	1.76	1822	72.88
Bhanvad	44	1.76	1356	54.24
Jodiya	42	1.68	1031	41.24
Dwarka	36	1.44	1054	42.16
Jamjodhpur	26	1.04	1133	45.32

Coral Rehabilitation Project - Marine National Park

Coral Rehabilitation Project - Marine National Park

Under a conservation project for eco-diversity, Gujarat State Forest dept will get some coral from Lakshadweep, and re-plantation them in Jamnagar Marine National Park

These Acropora Corals are on the brink of extinction, earlier it was found in abundance now are a rare sight in Pirotan / Narara.

Two more coral species, Corites and Feviya, will also be replanted. Jamnagar's Marine National park is of the few parks in world where travellers can see coral in shallow water also.

This Project funded by World bank will have lifecycle of 5 years.

Sasoi Dam Pics

By Ramesh Bhadra

HPCL Refinery : RIL Jamnagar's New Challenge

Around 50 senior engineers recently left Reliance Industries (RIL) Jamnagar to join HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd's upcoming 9MMT Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda in Punjab.


Considering recent refining growth in India, RIL and ESSAR refineries around Jamnagar were the only option left for poaching. most of the new refineries are built on UOP technology which serves as common ground for most of the engineers to venture in different companies.

A HR Analyst also said that this trend is just started and may be increasing over the time.

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Khambhalia Rain Update

Jamnagar district is still experiencing heavy rain, Khambhalia received 32 inch rainfall in last two days,


This leads to a flood situation. Electricity, Transport and essentials supply is disrupted, Ghee Dam in Khambhalia is overflowing by 4 feet as we note, food packet distribution is underway from authorities.

Jamnagar Heavy Rain Images

Pics by Ramesh Bhadra

Ranjit Sagar Overflow Pics

Ranjit Sagar Dam

Ranjit Sagar Dam

River Near Ranjit Sagar

Causeway Near Ranjit Sagar

Images by Ramesh Bhadra

Jamnagar Heavy Rain Experienced

As we note, all dams of Jamnagar (24 in total) are overflowing.

This also includes

• Vartu
• Vijarakhi 
• Ranjitsagar
• Sarsoi
• Rangamati 
• Ghee

and other dams. City has experience very heavy rainfall in last 2 days, on Saturday Jamnagar City had 3 inch rain in just 45 Mins. Jamnagar's  Khambhaliya experienced 10 inch rain in 16 hours.

Jamnagar-Khambhaliya State Highway is blocked by heavy water flow. Many villages are cut off and disconnected.

State government has sent a rescue team, only 2 taluka Jodiya and Dhrol has not experienced much rain in last weekend.

UPDATED - Weekend Rain News

Jamnagar City received around 7.5 inch rain in the weekend,
In the city, rain started from Friday evening continued till Sunday and lashed around 7.5 inch of rainfall. flooding areas like Rameshwar nagar, Khodiya Colony, Limda-lane, Bedi gate, Jayshree Talkies etc. Lakhota lake also received fresh supply of rain-water.

Jamnagar district's Kalyanpur taluka's Bhatia lake filled completly in this rainfall, Lalpur also received 0.75 inch, Bhanvad , Dhrol received 1.25 inch. and Jodia,Kalawad received .5 inch rain in last weekend.



Image courtsey : Nobat

Heavy rain lashes Jamnagar district

Jamnagar district finally had its share of rain in last week-end, On saturday night and Sunday morning Khambhaliya received 6 inch of rain, maximum in the current season,

Jamnagar city received around 4 inch in just around one hour. Lalpur, Lamba received 3 inch, Bhanvad 2.5, Dwarka 2, Dhrol, Jamjodhpur received 1.75 inch.

Water reserviour across the district received new water. Ranjit Sagar Dam level is up by around 15 ft , UmiyaSagar dam is overflowing at 15 ft.
Total rain received in this season is as follows

Place                     : Rain in Inch
Jamnagar                : 13
Kalyanpur               : 11
Dhrol                      : 3
Lalpur                     : 8
Khambhaliya           : 9
Dwarka                  : 5
Bhanvad                 : 9
Kalavad                  : 7
Jodiya :                   : 4
Jam-Jodhpur           : 8

Updated : Subhash Trivedi , New Jamnagar DSP

 Surat's Deputy Police Commissioner(Crime) Shri Subhash Trivedi has been transferred to Jamnagar as Superintendent of Police.
[UPDATE]
Subhash Trivedi was in news in feb, when Trivedi shot state ATS inspector named Shabbir Ali.

This happened during a mock-drillin the Surat airport. Trivedi was leading the rescue team said he accidentally shot inspector from his service revolver.

ATS chief Ajay Tomar was asked to investigate in the matter

Khijadiya Bird Sanctury : Eco Tourism in Village

You need not be an University Graduate to save the planet, every little thinking helps the planet to survive.
Banking on Eco Tourism villagers around Khijadiya Bird Sanctury vowed to protect the environment and the area nearby, and Forest department is helping them to do so.

Khijadiya is known for its best wetland reservoir and heaven for migratory birds coming from Arabian sea, in Winter and early summer thousands of birds flock to this place, this is the fist resting place / wetland for birds coming from Arabian sea / Africa. This wetland with a marine national park nearby makes it best sight seeing place in Gujarat for Eco tourists.

Villagers near the Khijadia used to cut wild babool for their daily fuel needs, now solar cooker provided from the Gujarat State Forest Department is giving new life to Khijadia villagers and also to birds,

A World Bank-funded Eco-development project helps 10 villages in Jamnagar to provide solar cookers, bio gas and other vocational courses on automobiles, sewing etc. each village will receive sum of 8 lakh. village selected in first phase of the implementation are Khijadia, Jodia, Okunala, Balachai, Sachana, Khara Biraja, Parodia, Simani, Samna and Poshitra. Phase 2 will implement similiar project in Navlakhi (Kutch) and Okha (Jamnagar), after phase 2 total 97 villages will be covered under the scheme.

Khijadia bird sanctury has many birds like

• black ibis
• black-winged kite
• brahminy kite
• pheasant-tailed jacana
• great thick-knee
• common greenshank
• grey francolin
• imperial eagle
• Indian pond heron
• little tern
• black-tailed godwit
• comb duck
• common crane
• common teal
• dunlin
• garganey
• marsh harrier
• northern pintail
• shoveler
• Eurasian wigeon
• pale harrier
• demoiselle crane
• sanderling
• darters

Forest Department is looking forward to preserve the bio-diversity by adding more natural life style to nearby villages in the forest range.

RIL AGM Update : More Bonanza for Jamnagar

In RIL AGM, Mukesh Ambani announced more expansion in Jamnagar Refinery Complex, With new partnership with Russian firm RIL sought to become major rubber producer.

RIL may also look at building Nuclear Reactor near Jamnagar.


However RIL pharma plans are bit left out of the priority.

Jamnagar Water Reservoir - Rain Update

Jamnagar Water reservoir and rains in nearby areas in last 24hrs.

Dam	Rain in last 24 hrs (mm)
Vartu Dam	75
Sonmati Dam	75
Dai Minsar Dam	50
Vanavad Dam	32
Veradi-2 Dam	152
Vartu-2 Dam	50
Veradi-1  Dam	70
Rupavati Dam	50
Kabaraka Dam	80
Vanana Dam	90
Umiya Sagar Dam	50

Reliance Chemical Plant

Like a prestigious Craker unit, RIL may start a multibillion-dollar chemical plant this year in Jamnagar.

A Project plan was laid out recently in RIL for manufacturing of the raw materials for plastics, drugs and textiles.

Reliance is working to close the configuration and technical details of the plant. As of now its learnt that the plan will have prod. capacity of aroung 1.6 MMTPA of chemicals such as ethylene and propylene.

Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. are the partners in the facility.