Jamnagar Rain Updates

This week, rains started on time in Jamnagar district, Jamnagar city received around 1 inch of rainfall in first day, Dwarka town received 3inch, Khambhaliya 3 inch and Kalyanpur received 2 inch of rain.

Although first rain bought relief to Jamnagar citizens, lower areas suffered water logging right from day 1 of the rain, Low lying areas in Dwarka like ISCKON gate, Bhadrakali road, Jalaram Temple, Dwarkashish society are water logged. In Khambhalia, most of the low lying areas were under water on first day of the rain.

Perhaps it was a wakeup call for the administration to act.

Jamnagar Village under Quake Threat

Jamnagar Village under Quake Threat,

Residents of Khankhotda village, ( Kalawad taluka)  have been spending sleepless nights since a month. The mild tremors are experienced with huge bangs people fear the repeat of the 2001 quake, they are still not ready to shift to their houses and have been living in tents erected for them by the administration.  The region experienced eleven "blasts" on Sunday and six mild tremors on Monday. this village is the epicentre, the Jamnagar District Collector Office has erected tents where around 100 people have taken shelter. In other villages like Bagha and Lalpur also, people are spending night in the open.

Purshottam Patel sarcpanch of Khankhotda says that, more than 100 people have taken refuge in around 30 tents. ''It's been more than a month that people here have not been able to sleep because of these tremors and blasts,''.

On Sunday, 11 tremors were recorded between 7 am and 1 pm. Another tremor measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale hit the region around 4 pm.

Last Friday, Dwarka in Jamnagar district also recorded an undersea tremor measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale. ''Tremors recorded were very mild. There's no reason to panic," said Jamnagar District Collector VP Patel.

Seismologist SS Gadhvi said: ''Jamnagar district is in zone number 3, which means it has less possibility of being hit by an earthquake. No fault line is active in Saurashtra region. So there could be mild tremors, but no powerful earthquake.''  the team also explained that the tremors are result of movement between two plates, located hardly 2 kms down from the surface. The team, which has set up two temporary observatories in Khankhotda and Lalpur, based on their past two days' experience said that blast will continue for another one and a half months. ''It will subside when movements between two plates will stop,'

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Khushboo Gujarat ki - Update

Image Courtesy - Ramesh Bhadra

Bollywood megastar Amitabh left Jamnagar yersterday and was overwhelmed with his experiences in Gujarat.
 
Amitabh Bachchan, stayed in Meethapur and went to Dwarka yesterday morning, Bachhan was featured in a video presentation with 1008 lamps on Gomti Ghat, he reached Jamnagar by road from where he left for Mumbai on a special plane.

Bachhan had completed filming for last piece of video for Gujarat Tourism promotion -  'Khushboo Gujarat Ki'.

INS Veer , Navy Week : Okha

INS Veer - A Vidyut class missile boat and a killer of 1975 Indo-Pak war will be in Okha for few days to celebrate Indian Navy Week starting 1st Dec.

INS Dwarka has organised many event to promote Navy and bring awareness of civilians to navy capabilities.
India is celebrating 40th anniversary of victory against Pakistan in 1975 Indo-Pak War.

Nabbed : Highway Robbers near Khijadiya

Six robbers were caught whuke attempting a highway robbery at Khijadiya bypass near Jamnagar.

The robbers used to stop vehicles on highway and then carry out the robbery. The gang leader gave police the slip and fled away.

It was reveled during interrogation that robbers stole bikes from Rajkot and sold to get some cash. The gang leader also stole mahindra bolero, Tata Indica car from Dwarka

Police recovered items worth Rs 2.5 lakh, including cellphones, cash, a Mahindra Bolero, many sharp-edged weapons.

Weakest Result of Class 10 - Jamnagar

Jamnagar posted weakest result of 10th standard,  Though Jamnagar contributed 2 student in State top 10, average pass percentage of the district was a dismal 48.65%.

Among the district, Dwarka recorded result with mere 38.68%, Jamnagar city result was around 31.02%.

Okha - Rameshwaram Train Announced

Much Awaited Okha - Rameshwaram train will soon start,

In yesterday's Union Rail Budget , Laluji has announced this missing piece of the Char-Dham inter connection.

With this new  extension, Dwarka is fully linked with all 3 Dham's In India.

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Degree , Diploma Engineering College from RIL

3 years back Mukesh Ambani announced RIL's plans to create a world class university in Gujarat during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit at Ahmedabad.


Working on the same directions, group President of RIL Parimal Nathwani, , announced that RIL will enter in education sector, he made this announcement at inaugural function of Khodiar colony branch of Navanagar cooperative bank in Jamnagar early this week.


Reliance Industries Limited(RIL) is entering in education sector, with a good name in DAICT and Dhirubhai Ambani schools and colleges doing extremely good through out the nation, RIL will start world-class engineering colleges Jamnagar and Vadodara.

RIL has sound presence in Jamnagar with its world class refinery and IPCL infrastructure in Vadodara, RIL will also start a diploma polytechnic college in Dwarka (Jamnagar).

10 From a town, 8 from a family killed in road mishap

A Patel family lost eight of their members in a road accident near Dwarka, a Mahindra Bolero collided with a standing truck with a bang. Whole of Sultanpur village and many nearby villages attended the cremation,

Jamnagar - Rain Changes City Mood

Sudden weather change across Gujarat bought rains to Jamnagar as well,

High winds and cloudy atmosphere added gloom in the city weather, there were quick shover of rain in yesterday morning, Rain was also felt in Okha and Dwarka, Fishermen are advised not to venture in sea as the sea could be violent.

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Swarka - Baba Ramdev to launch yatra

Baba Ramdev is starting his movement against corruption, called  "Bharat Swabhiman Janjagriti Yatra" from Dwarka on August 24.

This yatra will cover 300 districts across the country including those in Gujarat. Baba Ramdev will start the yatra with a yoga camp from 5am to 7.30 am

Huge Power Plant by Singapore Company

Universal Success Enterprise Ltd (USEL) is a diversified business conglomerate, based in Singapore will set up a 6,000 MW power plant in Jamnagar.

The company has finalised coastal location of Bhogat (near Dwarka), all pre-feasibility study is completed.

Proposed Power plant will cost Rs 24,000 crore, this will be coal fired as fuel and USEL is looking forward to construct a dedicated terminal to bring in coal at Bhogat.

USEL will sign an MoU with the state government during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit to be held on January12 and 13, 2009.

Jamnagar - YPO Meeting ends

The biggest power gathering event staged in Gujarat, concluded at the RPL township in Jamnagar yesterday.

The meeting was of Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), A giant dome (worth 6 crore) was erected inside the township for the event.


Al Gore , Nobel laureate and former US vice president could not make it because of time constraints.
 
Nandan Nilekani (CEO-Infosys) , K V Kamath (ICICI MD-CEO) , Sunil Mittal (Bharti-Chairman) Anand Mahindra (Mahindra & Mahindra), Adi Godrej(Godrej-CMD)  and Vikram S Mehta were there on the the invitation of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani,
 
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, made a presentation on India Unlimited on saturday evening.
 
Mukesh Ambani addressed the session before lunch on Sunday and many of the guests took a trip to the Dwarka temple later in the evening.

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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.

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.

Jamnagar - Recent News

City morning is now foggy with begining of the winter.

Dwarka -  Murali Mandir Entrance is now open.

Lohana Samaj is celebrating Jalaram Jayanti.

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.

Illegal Bauxite Mining - 1.33 Crore lost

Recently several cases of mineral theft is found in Jamnagar District, one more addition of such case darken the blat on the implementation of law in the district.

The Mines and Minerals Department found that the theft from bauxite mines in Lamba Village (Dwarka) is of Rs 1.33 crore, the dept. seized a JCB Machine from the site.

Illegally dug bauxite quantity from Lamba land no 30 is as huge as 4.36 Lakh tonnes.

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Ship Drowned, Mayor Elections

A ship returning from Dubai torn to pieces and drowned when a larger ship hit her near Dwarka, the broken ship was from Mandavi and carrying cargo of Dates from Dubai.
All eight sailors were saved by a passing ship.
On news from Jamnagar city, Jamnagar Municipal Corporation will hold mayor elections on 14 December.
Jamnagar's M. P. Shah Medical college and GG Hospital (Irwin) will undergo an audit check by Medical Council of India.

Sudama Setu , temple complex inauguration - Dwarka

CM Narendra Modi will commence construction of Sudama Setu on 28 Jan, he will also inaugurate new temple complex of Dwarkadhish Temple.
New temple complex boats modern facilities for pilgrimages like luggage box, shoe boxes, CCTV etc.
CM will also commence construction of a Bandra-worli C Link look alike bridge called "Sudama Setu", stretched from Gomti Ghat to Paanchkuva