Reliance - More Jobs to Jamnagar

Reliance Industry's upcoming project is massive and is aiming to create more money and jobs.

RIL's Cracker project is being revived, this was on hold after the 2008 economic crisis.

As of now RIL project execution and management team is working on technology selection and pilot start up. Once done, contracts will been awarded, this brings news of more jobs shipping to Jamnagar.


This cracker project will be completed by 2014.

Jodiya : Earthquake Scam on news again

Earthquake rehabilitation scam caught up with news recently, Jodiya Police in Jamnagar district received a complaint for misappropriation of around 3 Crore.

This is big news as the complaint is filed against 380 people including the then Taluka Development Officer (TDO), two talatis, sarpanch, vice-sarpanch, a government engineer, 15 officials, and rest of the names are of beneficiaries.

Jamnagar Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Inspector J J Dhranga is investigating the matter.

Sibur - Reliance JV for Tyre Manufacturing

Reliance Industries and Russian Tyre Giant Sibur will create a unit to manufacture rubber for automobile tires in India.


The two companies have signed a MOU to set up the JV in India.

The venture will produce butyl rubber at Reliance petrochemical complex in Jamnagar

Cricketer Looted, Tata Docomo Service Launched

In a set of mixed news from Jamnagar, a former Ranji player Rajendrasinh Jadeja was looted near town, three unidentified men forced him out of the car and allegedly looted booty worth Rs 35,000 , including a gold chain.

TATA DOCOMO , India new cellular service has launched Jamnagar service yesterday,  with following prepaid Tariff.

• Local Calls - 1p/sec 
• STD Calls - 2p/sec 
• Local SMS - Re. 0.60 
• National SMS - Re. 1 
• International SMS - Rs. 5

Check Tata Docomo's Post paid plan here

Kingfisher Jamnagar Accident Averted

A Jamnagar bound flight narrowly escaped accident at Mumbai Airport.


Kingfisher ATR 72-500 aircraft from Mumbai to Jamnagar with 30 passengers onboard , had to abort the take off by ATC at around 1:30 pm yesterday. There was another GO Air passenger jet just landed, had to vacate a runway from different exit but took different one instead.

Just when the Kingfisher jet was moving away from the runway onether Kingfisher jet stride in and the Jamnagar bound Jet pilot was asked to clear the runway.
ATC sources says there was no panic situation.

Orkut : New Weapon of a Doctor

A doctor is working on a cleaning operation, the govt doctor is trying to expose corruption in a government hospital through Orkut. this doctor has put up around 400 photos of the hospital in his orkut page.


One Dr Ketan Ranpariya has decided to fight the local health authorities to look into the corruption at Khambhalia General Hospital (KGH) of Khambhaliya in Jamnagar district, The doctor is an MBBS and also has PG in hospital management.

As a typical reaction local health department transferred him else where, but without much benefit. Ketan continued to spread his message.

Now health ministry and Ranparia are at each other's neck, and accusing of foul play from both sides.

For you to catch the action, check out a orkut page titled "Shuruat to Karo Badlega India". The orkut page lists hospital officials sleeping on duty, poor storage facilities, mishandling of bio waste, unhygienic drinking water facility and dirty toilets.

Palace Robbery : Man set himself ablaze

A Convict in question is a middle aged man , just caled in , in connection with the recent Ranjitsinhji Palace robbery.

A person named Devish Godhadiya, suffered 70 per cent burns and was rushed to G G Hospital.

Godhadiya set ablaze himself and few Police spotted him near the police station, Godhadiya has earlier been accused in theft brass parts theft cases in Jamnagar.

15% Profits Rise by RIL

Reliance Industries announced its first profit rise since last year. India's largest company by market capitalisation grows by 15.8% to 40.1bn rupees ($861m, 530m USD).

This performance was boosted by higher natural gas production. Income for the third quarter jumped 80 percent to 568.56 billion rupees.

Reliance operates the world's largest oil-processing complex in Jamnagar, western India, where two adjacent refineries have a combined capacity to process 1.24 million barrels of oil a day.

RIL backs off Jamnagar GI Tagging Plans

Jamnagar News First reported the GI Tag initiative, Almost a year back we found that Jamnagar Bandhani may get Jamnagar GEO Tagging.

Now taking some firm steps, Chennai-based Geographical Indication (GI) Registry has decided to clean off its old files and already granted brand new GI certificates for high value brands. These brands includes names like 'Tirupati Ladu', 'Banarasi Sarees' and 'Goan Feni'.

Jamnagar is not behind either, India's most valued company Reliance Industries had also requested for registeration of GI Tag for its five products

• Jamnagar Petrol
• Jamnagar Fuel
• Jamnagar LPG
• Jamnagar Diesel
• Krishra Godavari Gas
  

These are the products that are produced from RIL's Jamnagar refinery and Krishna Godavari basin. Later, RIL withdrew its applications, many says that this is because RIL has plans to have the KG GAS used in Lyondellbasell Reliance Refinery.

Shivrajpur (Dwarka) to be developed as Beach Resort

Just when Gujarat is heading for a Green Revolution under CM Modi's leadership, good business news continues to flow for Jamnagar.

In response to GMB's bid request for eco friendly beach development in Gujarat, two firms had shown interest. Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has short listed tourist beaches at Sarkeshwar (Amreli) and Shivrajpur (Jamnagar).

Two architecture consultancy firms are Hiren Gandhi & Associates and Wapcos India, a flagship company of union ministry of water resources.

The successful bidders will be involved in planning and design of tourist beach development.  Gujarat Green Beach Development Project will be first amongst the public private partnership (PPP) projects from Gujarat Govt. around Rs. 200 crore will be spent on developing these two beaches.

Shivrajpur near Jamnagar has the best view and clean blue water with potential to become one of the best beaches in Gujarat.

RIL Stops Gasoline to Iran

As expected, Reliance Industries has stopped the gasoline and gas oil to Iran since April, these also means that RIL is in lead of acquisition and want to escape sanctions by the US.

RIL was selling mostly gasoline to Iran but has since April to this year RIL has completely stopped shipments from Jamnagar refinery.

With this news, it is almost clear that RIL will catch hold of LyondellBasell.

Cyclone Phyan : Gujarat On Alert

As Warned by MET.  

Phyan, A Cyclone of Level 3 may hit coasts of West-South Gujarat and Specially Jamnagar by tomorrow, Citizens are adviced to stay alert, Sea-shore activities are reportedly prohibited

Indonesian Coal major to invest in Jamnagar

If this deal is through, Jamnagar will add one more business feather in its cap.

Bogath a village in Jamnagar may have a 10,000 MW Coal based power plant, Thanks to Modi's efforts.

Indonesia based Salim Group is looking forward to establish its presence in Jamnagar, Modi accepted an invitation to visit Indonesia but had to delay because of his health and fiasco of his Oman visit.

A delegation led by South Governor  of Sulawesi province, Indonesia. Invited Modi in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit in January 2009.

Fish Rain Near Jamnagar

Mysterious "Fish rain" is not yet over. Before few days it was Bhanwad, and now its  Bantiya village of Junagadh district.

Many Forest officials and Naturalist believed that the fishes must have been dropped by pelicans during migration, Jamnagar Fisheries dept. have ruled out the possibility that fish can get sucked in clouds and then fall as rain, they feel it as "absurd". For those who think it is not possible, check out the BBC Article on Fish Rain

Navagam (Bhanwad) villagers said that they saw about half a kilometer long and as much wide fish-laden clouds about 15 feet above the ground. This looks a bit outrageous though.

In Nawagam, fish fall was seen along with roads and markets and on terraces of several buildings.

Reliance Refinery Capacity to Increase

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to increase the capacity of Jamnagar refining facility, Jamnagar Refinery will have its production raised by onether quarter and it will total to 720,000 barrels a day (bpd). Post its commissioning in december, Jamnagar Reliance Refinery Unit 1 boasts capacity of 650,000 bpd.

It is interesting that RIL Refinery is operating at capacity 12% higher then the official output capacity, once the new setup will get commissioned (in about a year) the total output of the refinery will be amongst world largest refinery in terms of output capacity. Total refining capacity of this complex will become 1,380,000 bpd.

Although these are vibes for shareholders, petro analysts are very cautious, the refinery produce market is alrady over supplied and this expansion seems only a trick to not to pay heavy taxes to Indian Governement. When questioned RIL declined to comment on this issue.

Jamnagar Refinery Complex is already the world's largest refining hub.

RIL Issues Bonus Share - Dividend

RIL on Wednesday announced its plans to issue one bonus share bonus share for each share held. Profit from Jamnagar's Refinery has helped RIL take the decision and boosted sentiments of RIL Sharehoders. Addition to the bonus A dividend of 13 rupees is also announced.

RIL's consolidated net profit stand at 152.96 billion rupees for the year ended March 31, 2009. The number also includes figures from Reliance Petroleum Ltd.

Pulses worth 34 lakh seized

Tackling the black marketeers in saurashtra, On Sunday, Jamnagar civil supplies department captured pulses worth Rs 33.75 lakh.

Jamnagar Civil supplies department captured the pulses near Sanjay Nagar area, located in outskirts of the Jamnagar. Civil Supply Inspectors revealed that around  91,000 kg of tuver / chana dal were recovered during the raid.

Owner of the Krishna Industry are taken in police custody. It was known that large discrepancy in the storage accounts of the firm was reason behind suspecian adn the raid.

Total pusle cost is around 34 lakh.

Rain , Agriculture , Shravan and more

In last 56 hrs Jamnagar recorded around 340mm of rainfall. Local government has alerted the authorities because of water logging caused by incessant rain.

Jamnagar district agriculture department claims that the district has completed 94% of sowing, more rain could wipe-off the plantation.

Along with the rain comes the Shravan month of devotion and celebration. thousands of pilgrims, including those from non-resident Gujarati community, have started flocking to various temples of Saurashtra, Somnath and Dwarka being the main attractions.

Jamnagar district collectorate of Dwarka and management board of Jagat Mandir in Dwarka have begun preparations for the Janmashthami celebrations. Devotees have already started thronging the town to attend the celebrations. In a recently convened meeting attended by Rajya Sabha MP and Dwarkadhish Devasthan Samiti chief Parimal Nathwani and collector VP Patel, preparations for the big day's events were discussed.

Donated eyes left untended for 22 days

This incident added an insult to injury for G.G. (Irwin) Hospital, just 11 days after the hospital got name in TV for a perfect wrong reason, branding and parading an HIV+ woman.

Strange things comes to picture as the mystery unfolds, Kutchhi Visha Oshwal Jain Mahajan in Bhuj regularly donates eyes to GG Hospital and many other in Saurashtra-Kutch for medical reasons, these eyes normally reach through domestic courier. This time the hospital staff did not came to collect the parcels.

A local courier operator who has been transporting these consignments regularly says that the consignment was sent on June 6. But, no one from the ophthalmology department of GG hospital came to take delivery of the parcels.

Later the delivery man delivered the nine parcels at 6 pm on Tuesday at the registration counter of the GG Hospital.

As expected, hospital Superintendent of GG hospital Dr BD Gupta puts blame on the organization that sends the eyes, saying that they did not communicate properly and the deliveryman who should have taken receipt.

Women Labeled HIV Positive and paraded through GG Hospital

In what could be termed as one of the most disturbing moment for GG (Inwin) hospital, a HIV positive pregnant lady was labeled as HIV positive and paraded through the wards to warn other patients about her status.

Prafula Parmar, a nurse at the GG Hospital stuck a label that read 'HIV Serum positive' on her forehead. it is so disturbing as labels are pasted only on foreheads of dead bodies after post-mortem examination.

On Saturday, the victim met the gynaecology department head Dr Nalini Anand. After going through her reports, the doctor told her to stay away from other patients and told the nurses about her health condition. The woman had come to the gynaecology department for a check-up on Wednesday. Tests confirmed that she was HIV positive and doctors advised her to terminate the pregnancy, which was done.

The nurse, Prafula Parmar, pasted the label on her forehead and took her around the hospital campus on Saturday, it was mid-way through the parade that volunteers of 'Jamnagar District Network of People Living With HIV' noticed her and they took the matter with hospital supritendent.

Health minister Jay Narayan Vyas instituted an inquiry and asked two doctors and a nurse to proceed on leave till completion of the inquiry.