Indian Army Cycle Expedition

Indian army Cycling Team led by Lieutenant Sandeep started 943 km long cycling expedition from Jamnagar.


This expidition will cross 7 districts of Saurashtra region to promote and foster the spirit of adventure .




The expedition will cover almost 110 kms across Jamnagar, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Diu, Somnath, Dwarka and Porbandar districts.

Greenfield airport at Dwarka

દ્વારકા નું નવું એરપોર્ટ ફાળવેલ જગ્યા એ બનશે તથા આ એરપોર્ટ ગુજસેઇલ બનાવશે.

ગુજરાત સ્ટેટ એવિએશન ઇન્ફ્રાસ્ટ્રકચર કંપની લિ. (ગુજસેઇલ) એ જાહેર ક્ષેત્રની કંપની છે, જેની સ્થાપના ગુજરાતમાં ઝડપી વેગે વિકસી રહેલા નાગરિક ઉડ્ડયન ક્ષેત્ર માટે જરૂરી માનવ સંસાધન પુરા પાડવા તેમજ માળખાકીય સુવિધાઓ ઉભી કરવાના હેતુથી કરવામાં આવી છે. ગુજરાત રાજ્યમાં પ્રવાસનને વેગ આપવા અને કનેક્ટિવિટિ વધરાવાની વ્યુહરચનાના ભાગરૂપે રાજ્યમાં ગુજસેઇલ તબક્કાવાર 11 હવાઇપટ્ટીઓનો વિકાસ કરી રહી છે. જેની શરૂઆત ઔદ્યોગિક કેન્દ્ર અંકલેશ્વર અને દ્વારકા, અંબાજી તેમજ પાલિતાણા જેવી મંદિરોની નગરીઓથી થશે. ગ્રીનફિલ્ડ એરપોર્ટ પ્રોજેક્ટનો વિકાસ પીપીપીના ધોરણે રાજ્યની જરૂરીયાત મુજબ કરવામાં આવશે. એટીએફનાં વેરામાં પાંચ ટકા રાહત, અનુદાન, એમઆરઓ સુવિધા, વાયેબિલિટી ગેપ ફંડીંગ જેવા વિવિધ પ્રોત્સાહનોની જાહેરાત પણ કંપનીએ કરી છે.

Fisherman killed by Pakistan Marine Agency

Okha fisherman was killed in a mid-sea firing incident near Okha block of Devbhoomi Dwarka district on Friday morning.

Marine police are suspicious the firing, which took place about 100 nautical miles away from Okha port, was carried out by Pakistan marines, the fisherman has been identified as Iqbal Bhatti (40), a resident of Okha.

5 okha fishermen returned from Pak Jail.

5 fishermen returned safely to their homes after spending 7 months jail in pakistan.

Okha and bet Dwarka fishermen community is rejoicing the event, when 5 of their community friends returned home from 7 months jail in pakistan.


halar.org wishes them luck.

Independence Day - new Dwarka district

Congratulations to all the residents of Dwarka, Kalyanpur, Khambhalia and Bhanvad 

New Dwarka district will be announced most likely tomorrow on independence day.

Khambhalia citizens will enjoy more as they are for getting a new District Headquarter. 

Guarding temple without salary

Jamnagar home guard is guarding most iconic temple in Gujarat. Dwarkas jagad mandir, without salary.

Since 4 month Dwarka posted home guard has not received salary.

Govt should look to address these development issues also.

Asharam Controversy - Poster blackened

Asharam is again in controversy, poster blackened near Dwarka, read more on AshaRam Poster controversy

Dhoni's Parents, wife visited Dwarka

Indian Cricket Team captain Mahendra singh Dhoni’s parents and wife visited Dwarka yesterday, they also visited Somnath temple.

 

Railway Budget - Whats for Jamnagar

Long wait for Railway budget was over yesterday, Jamnagar did received some goodies along with the fare hike.

Bhanvad railway station is to be developed as an ideal station, an ideal station will have basic amenities, water and adequate security and basic communication options.

A daily train between Dwarka and Somnath will also be started. Okha-Rajkot track will be upgraded to double track to reduce the waiting time.

Additionally, three weekly new trains are added for Jamnagar, Okha-Jaipur, Porbandar-Secundarabad and Hapa-Mudgaon.

Unfortunately no new trains between Jamnagar and Mumbai.

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.

Foreign Job Scandal - Remand for 10 days

Court have approved 10 days remand for the main accused in the foreign job scandal that rocked Dwarka.

Two youth from Dwarka lost 6Lakh, they found out about this duping only a day before their flight to Singapore.

Mumbai agents promised them fair job in Singapore.

One of the accused Gaurang is in police custody, others are absconding

200 boats on paper - Kerosene Scandal

Fishermen across Jamnagar district are outraged on the Govt. quota of Kerosene distribution.

First, fishermen are supplied only 35% kerosene of their total fuel need, as against to 85% of the total allowable fuel as per distribution laws, on the other hand few cheaters are making quick bucks by registering a non-existent boats.

This scandal is widely organised through many department and hence none share the responsibilities. It works something like this, most of the fibre boat are assembled in Veraval / Somnath, forged documents are obtained from Mamlatdar office of manufactured place, later an affidavit stating the copies as original document is submitted to Gujarat Maritime Board, this generates a call for the fisheries department for releasing a boat, this call is later used by any Tehsil office (in this case Dwarka office) to distribute kerosene, it is also believed that as there is a finite number of such forged documents, the office does distribute the kerosene on backdoor.

In the distribution chain, as per agreed norms, every fibre boar is allocated 250 Litre. Of subsidised fuel. However actual requirement for a month of fuel is around 500 Litre. Per boat per month. Actual allocation of fuel (subsidised) is only 85 Litre. This is just 35% of agreed quota and actually 15% of total fuel requirement per boat per month, this forces the fishermen to get non-subsidised fuel from market at higher cost.

Since last 10 years, Rupen port in Jamnagar has seen this cheating evolving to a tradition now, subsidised fuel is sold at 10.30 Rs. per lt., however as per market cost the fuel is sold at around 60 Rs. per litre, fishermen had to shell out additional 50 Rs. Per litre. The black money circuit is amounted to 8-9 Lakh.

Rupen port has around 1500 boats, some says 200 out of these are only on paper, agencies says that counting of all boats is not possible (!!!) as there are no record of which boat left for sea and which is at bay. This makes things easy for cheaters to hide the non-existent boats.

News source: Sandesh

INS Dwarka and Okha Marine Police - Security Training

A training camp was organised by Okha marine police and INS Dwarka, cadets were given training on using air inflated emergency boat.

Gujarat coast is biggest in India, spanning 1600 KM and coast guard and Navy has strong presence considering proximity to specific countries, Jamnagar has biggest coast line of 335 KM in Gujarat, this places Jamnagar in demand of high security.

First time, Coastal DIG, INS Dwarka, INS Pralay and STS all are participating in this training exercise, INS Pralay is currently docking at Okha port.

Foreign Job Scandal - One more arrested

One more convict was arrested in Jamnagar district following a complaint by more then 6 person, they all were promised a job in Singapore and were duped 6Lakh in total.

Accused promised a job and accommodation in Singapore, they were handed over a ticket and visa. In few hours though, accused cancelled the visa and tickets.

FIR was lodged from Dwarka police station, and the enquiry was stretched to Mumbai.

Further investigation is going from Dwarka Police.

35 New Camera For Dwarka Temple

In a bid to increase security, Dwarka temple will have 35 new camera tapping on potential trouble creators, this project is approved with cost and is awaiting nod from Archaeological authority.

There will be a control room upgrade to facilitate the operations too, currently only 5 camera and a small operation control room is used for security. The transmission will be broadcasted live to Jamnagar police chief and Gandhinagar home department, this camera will be used to monitor nearby areas also.

Thousands spend night at sea-shore, roads - khushboo Gujarat ki.

Thousands of tourists stranded at Dwarka as they could not get accommodation in any hotels or inns, due to overwhelming tourist flocking in Diwali.

In Many places rooftops were also rented for prices ranging from 500 to 1500 per person.

Govt. if spending millions in tourism advt. can loose some pocket at infrastructure also.

Dwarka Housefull in Diwali

Going to spend some quality time with family and friends in Dwarka, make sure you get proper reservations!

Dwarka is houseful

Like each year, this year too, there are record no. of tourist flocking to Dwarka, almost all hotels, inns and roadside motels are full.

Travel booking agents recorded maximum inflow of tourists from Gujarat and all over India.

Dhwaja rohan on the Dwarkadhidh temple is most auspicious on the Diwali / new year, this year one will see more then 5 Dhwaja rohan each day during diwali.

Dwarka Sadbhavna - 2 Commando died in road accident

One more Chetak commando died in a private hospital in Jamnagar, one commando named Mr. Parmar was pronounced dead in an accident, when a van carrying Chetak commandos overturned near Dwarka. This van carried 12 Chetak commandos and it overturned as one of its tyres burst.

This commandos were reaching Dwarka for Security of CM during the Sadbhavna Yatra.

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.

Sadbhavna war in dwarka

Come 16th October and Modi and Madam will face each other While practicing fast. It is now clear that congress too wil experience the sadbhavna As district co

Collector has given the clearance for congress yatra.