Kamla Nehru Park to be privatised

Kamla Nehru park will soon be given for private management, with this move it seems there will be fees imposed on the entry of the park as well.



Ironically this news came after around 1Crore were distributed by CM Modi on the gardens and parks, it seems JMC management wants to cash out this public money by giving the management to private parties and get cash from them, once the garden is set for private management, all sorts of un approved things may pop in, one may see many hoardings, banners and advertisements in the park.



Anjali news has recently campaigned about deteriorating condition of the Lakhota Lake and tries to wake up JMC, it seems JMC officials are in no mood to look at citizen's appeals.

Nine Policemen injured

Nine police men were injured when a jeep carrying nine if them (!) overturned near jodaia.

Carbide Mangoes - JMC wake up

With increase in demand for Mangoes in the city, Mango vendors are shifting to more in-organic ways to ripe the Mangoes.

A hazardous substance , Carbide is used in abundance to ripe the mangoes artificially, every medical and health team should inspect the Mangoes religiously and without any preferential treatments. However many
vendors are getting a free run to use the carbide and one can see the carbide bags in Lakhota lake, Subhash market etc. will JMC look into this ?

city selected to track climate change

 world-renowned philanthropic organisation, Rockefeller Foundation has selected Jamnagar among three cities in India to undergo a planning process to face the vagaries of climate change  Two other Indian cities selected as pilot cities under this project are Shimla and Bhubaneswar.  This study will be adopted later in 10 various cities across Asia in future. Issues such as water supply system, drainage networks, solid waste disposal and energy-efficient building technology, will be addressed by a climate change core team. The core and advisory team of the ICLEI, besides the officials of the corporation and other stakeholders, will also include engineers, architects, energy specialists, planners and ecologists. The ICLEI South Asia Programme is part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The programme aims to cover cities in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand. Regarding energy efficient and disaster-resistant building technology, the ICLEI officer added that the climate resilient planning tools would propagate the use of energy generated from unconventional source. #end

12th Commerce results

Jamnagar received 72.71% results for 12^th commerce stream. With new grading system, this is around10% less then previous year.

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.

Four year old girl killed by father, Two drowned, Crematorium website launch.

A man brutally murdered his four-year-old daughter in Aliya village. This girl was living with his father and grand-mother, after her mother got divorced and re-married.

Last Saturday, two teenage boys were drowned in Ranjeet Sagar dam, Fire-brigade could fished out the bodies by Sunday evening. Two boys age 14 & 17 went to tuition class and when they did not return on time, family members started searching them in the evening. Later they came to know that the boys had gone to Ranjeetsagar dam for swimming. The Jamnagar Fire Brigade found the clothes of the boys near the dam.

The 112-year-old Jamnagar crematorium now has a website. Gujarat minister & Prof Vasuben Trivedi launched the public website, around Rs 4 crore have been spent on the crematorium's renovation, the spokesman said that the website will be useful to public and tourists as well, he added that organisers are working on live streaming aspect of website that could allow relatives to attend the funeral from internet.

Free Electric Crematorium and Bus Services

Newly built crematorium and bus service will be provided free of cost till end of this September, this new crematorium is built near the saibaba temple in Gandhinagar.

An undisclosed donation to this new crematorium / Moksh Mandir will help fund required expenses and operational cost,.

New Park at Ranjit Sagar

A new park will be constructed or the existing park will be upgraded with more facilities for the Jamnagar citizens at Ranjit Sagar.

New facilities will include a children's park, Game zone, parking and a boating area.

Additional infrastructure will also be created that involves a bus-stand and better road connectivity.

Gujarat Swarnim Jayanti Celebrations

On Sunday, Jamnagar hosted "Gujarat Swarnim Jayanti" celebrations with army parade, band show and many cultural programs.

May 1st is celebrated as Gujarat day following creation of Gujarat State in 1960 from Bombay state, this year Gujarat is celebrating 50th year of growth and prosperity.

Jamnagar celebrations were hosted at Ashapura ground near the Lakhota lake, two "Mashal Rally" were organised that started from Khambhalia gate and Summeir club road. Mayor Amiben Parikh flagged off the march.

Navy band entertained the audience with English, Hindi and Gujarati music, Air force added Guznec sparks over Lakhota, earlier morning walk and awakening sessions were organised with mass reading and oath taking programs. Students from schools presented good cultural programs

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.

Dental college issues, Dy collectors change etc.

Dental college student protest - student on strike, in usual way students of Jamnagar dental college are on strike, citing reasons of problems around the hostel and with demands of changing everyone from security-guard to dean of the college.

In a sudden move, 6 dy. collectors across the district were shuffled out of district and new comers are mostly from out of Jamnagar province.

A police constable was nabbed while taking bribe of 4,000 rs. for providing license of a pan shop.

Anjali News on Youtube

Now enjoy daily Jamnagar News on YouTube Channel anjanlinews , video are also available on this blog.

Two teens killed in a wall collapse

Ruin of an old building collapse killed two teens in bedeshwar in Jamnagar,
This accident occurred near Jamnagar city's bedeshwar area. Luckily 2 teens did survived this accident as a result of a prompt medical assistance.

Pirated DVD, Vegetable prices etc.

Police in Jamnagar suddenly wake up to discover huge stash of pirated DVD sold at every corner in the city, in past 2 days Jamnagar police recovered pirated copies of copyright material amounting to around a million rupee, police arrested 14 person and raised 14 places in city, most noticeable places includes Lakhota lake, Jayshree cinema, S.T. Road etc.

Last Saturday, vegetable shop owners around the main vegetable market stopped business at the subhash market, causing sharp increase in the vegetable prices. In this tussle of JMC and vegetable businessmen, citizens are paying price (actually high price), earlier last month JMC suggested to move the vegetable market to Hapa marketing yard. Vegetable shop owners are arguing that cost to transportation vegetables to the city from Hapa is unreasonable.

Forgery : 8 Lakh withdrawn from Company Account

A police complaint file against a company accountant details forgery of amount more then Rs 8Lakh,

The incident occurred in GIDC phase II near Dared, when company accountant deposited the cheques to his personal account, that were intended for govt sales tax and excise duty submission.

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.

Cheti Chand 2011 - Celebrations in Jamnagar

Jamnagar Sindhi Samaj will celebrate Cheti Chand 2011 festival today in Jamnagar, there are many events scheduled for this occasion, a mass thread ceremony will be followed by a religious yatra near Jhulelal temple located near old railway station. Jamnagar Sindhi community will take a day off from their business and work,

Kutchhi Lohana society will celebrate the festival with Dariyalal Jayanti, and traditional aarti celebration is organised at Lohana Samaj Wadi near pancheshwar tower.

WorldCup2011 - Jamnagar Celebrations

Read more on http://www.halar.org/post/2011/04/04/Jamnagar-World-Cup-Celebrations.aspx

Jamnagar Lakhota Lake - 50 Turtles dead

Around 50 turtles were found dead in Lakhota lake early yesterday, preliminary investigations suggestion this could be due to input of acidic sewage or industry water that is pumped in the lake.
A specific area of lake is affected by this acidic water surge, and it seems only turtles were killed, more investigation is carried out by forest department and department of fisheries.

25 ft Holika Dahan - Jamnagar

Jamnagar's Bhoi community had created a record 25 ft Holika statue, weighing almost a thousand kilo.

Though Jamnagar is famous for numerous Holi ritual bonfires, this year the number of bonfire is around 200 in the city. In India there is ban on burning effigies, but special permission is given for Holika Dahan since 1961.

MP Bribe case - new twist

New twist in MP bribe case against Cairn India read more on http://www.halar.org/post/2011/03/18/MP-Bribe-case-Cairns-complaints-oil-minister.aspx

Locals fight with Industries using PIL, RTI

Saurashtra locals are fighting industrialisation of their lands and coastal areas using new weapons of laws, read more on http://www.halar.org/

Krishnaben Khakhrawala in Dwarka

SONY TV's famous TV serial "Krishnaben Khakhrawala" is currently shooting in Dwarka, in collaboration with Gujarat Tourism and Vibrant Gujarat efforts,.
However the shooting was disrupted yesterday on 15th March when priests and local had protested the shooting as a junior artist had entered the temple with shoes, Krishnaben intervened and resolved the matter,

Ahmedabad Airport to Jamnagar - VOLVO Bus Service

New GSRTC (ST) Volvo bus from Ahmedabad airport to Jamnagar, read more on http://halar.org/post/2011/03/14/Ahmedabad-Airport-Jamnagar-Volvo.aspx

Cairn India - New Allegations of Bribe to MP

New allegations have surfaces in Cairn - Jamnagar MP tussle, Jamnagar MP had lodged a complaint against Cairn in Anti bribery case , read more on http://halar.org/post/2011/03/14/Bribe-to-MP-Cairn-in-deep-trouble.aspx

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.

Jairam Ramesh on Gulf of Kutch Ecology

Read on http://halar.org/post/2011/03/08/Jairam-Ramesh-on-Gulf-of-Kutch-Ecology.aspx

Ship stuck - possible oil spill in marine park?

Marine National Park Jamnagar officials are on a high alert,

A large vessel carrying bulk of rapeseed extraction meal and castor seeds extraction meal onboard got stuck near "Duni" island (between poshitra and Vadinar), this island borders the marine national park and there is a eminent threat to marine life in India's only marine national park.

MV Jutha Pathama, the vessel was bound for South Korea, all crew and owner of this ship are from Thailand, The Indian Coast Guard have confirmed the incident. Steps are being taken to ensure there are no oil spill in this area.

Flea market in cricket ground

Jamnagar may boast its glorious past in cricket and may look forward in future with players like Ravindra Jadeja, but the truth at ground is far from this dreams.

Come Saturday, and one of the biggest cricket playing place of Jamnagar city is filled with hawkers and flea shoppers, this area in ward 5, Gandhinagar is also a dumping ground for municipal corporation for pushing solid waste, this is very near to two primary schools and a high school. Teachers and locals around this area are urging JMC to clean up some of this area.

Jairam Ramesh in Jamnagar

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh will be in Jamnagar on Wednesday, 2nd March to inaugurate seminar on Marine Bio Diversity, read more on http://halar.org/post/2011/03/01/Environment-minister-in-Jamnagar.aspx

Sterling Hospital in Jamnagar

Sterling hospital is now in Jamnagar also,
Vasuben Trivedi has inaugurated a "super specialty clinic" in Jamnagar , this clinic has facilities ranging from Cardiology, laproscopy, Neuro and spine surgeon services etc.

Jamnagar - Gujarat Budget 2011

Although this budget is more of neutral in terms of taxation, there is a good news for Jamnagar,

Jamnagar will soon have a four track road extended to Bhavnagar, regarding taxation more tax will be imposed on tobacco and mobile services, there will be more ITI, and for the first time to cut carbon emission and promote green revolution, govt is proposing green tax, this green cess will be 2 paisa per unit of electricity consumption.  

Fisherman dead, 2 sons missing

A Salaya fisherman was found dead near Salaya creek on Sunday, his two sons one aged 14 and other 11 are still missing,

Neighbours confirmed that this fisherman named "Ismail Bhaya" went for fishing three days ago with his two sons; it is assumed that the boat in which fisherman and his two sons went fishing night has capsized.

Additional small tax for Jamnagar citizens

JMC added small additional tax for Jamnagar citizen, these new tax raise ranges from increase in fees in theatre, ambulance vehicle, birth-death certificate etc, although this list may be longer an average Jamnagar citizen may not need to add pay more.

Off the 188 Crore, 50 Crore was already allocated by government, ongoing works includes renovation work for Garden near Ranmal Lake, increasing size of Water pipe from Ranjit sagar dam, road construction from Gulab Nagar to Hospital etc.

Summer Special Train - Hapa to Bandra

A new summer special train between Hapa and Bandra (Mumbai) has been announced, this train will run leave from Hapa on Wednesday and from Bandra on Thursday, additional train between Okha and Bandra is also announced, this train will leave Bandra on Wednesday and from Okha on Thursday.

Security Guard returned 2Lakh Cash

While doing duty near the X-ray department, a security guard in G.G. Hospital found a bag containing 2 Lakh rupees in cash, he enquired about the incident and returned the money to the Govindbhai, who lost his bag of cash in Hospital.

Vasuben Trivedi hurt in a road accident

Two state-ministers Anandiben Patel and of Vasuben Trivedi (Jamnagar) were hurt in a road accident near Nadiad yesterday when their car slammed into a truck and a innova car that just had crashed in accident, both were taken to SAL hospital.

Later Anandiben Patel had a minor surgery, Vasuben Trivedi was admitted in ICU, and had to undergo a surgery, now her health is improving. Jamnagar BJP leaders and other members have rushed to ahmedabad.

Marine National Park - New Postal Cover

A new postal cover is open for grab at Jamnagar GPO, featuring Jamnagar Marine National Park, Narara, Pirotan and an image of Octopus, read more at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/02/09/Octopus-on-Postal-Envelope-Jamnagar-Marine-National-Park.aspx

Two Kashmiri nabbed from Sikka

In disturbing news for the security of Jamnagar, two Kashmiris were caught from Sikka, these two in their late sixties were caught pretending to be beggars, they had cash coins worth 27,000 INR.

This duo admitted that they were browsing along the coastal area starting from Bharauch to Jamnagar.

Blood Sandalwood - One more arrest

One more arrest was done for the smuggling of blood sandalwood from Jamnagar / Salaya.

DRI captured large quantity of  sandalwood log from kandala port, belonging to a salaya sip, this arrest makes three captures so far in this sandalwood smuggling scandal.

Save Mangroves - Marine National Park

A campaign by Marine National Park authority is well received by Jamnagar coastal areas, a "Save Cher" campaign launched this year brings fisherman’s, coastal locals and authorities in one shed to save the mangroves in India's largest marine national park.

Around 58 villages will be covered for this campaign, this campaign will feature activities like puppet show, booklet distribution, documentary and traditional shows like Bhavai, street play etc.

Good thing about this campaign is that the activities are executed by students and local eco development committee.

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

More NREGA scandal in district

A new NREGA Scandal has emerged in Moti Gop village of Jam Jodhpur talkua,

Few villagers have complained of forging the false job cards, there were complaints of work being done by contract labours, as they are cheaper as compared to the cash offered by NREGA.

There were other villages complaining issues of same nature, FIR is under investigation.

GVK to build LNG terminal in Jamnagar

GVK Power and Infrastructure was first to link Jamnagar with Vibrant Gujarat 2011.

GVK has entered an agreement with Gujarat government for creating a new LNG importing terminal Okha Madhi in Jamnagar.

GVK is planning to invest around 7,000 crore to develop the LNG terminal, there will be a private coal terminal and Maritime city at Okhamadhi.

GVK already has two LNG terminals at Dahej (Petronet LNG) and Hazira (Shell India and Total).

Essar Bulk Terminals also inked two MoUs totalling over 8,100 crore for jetty expansions, the second agreement deals with expansion of the Salaya jetty which is presently under construction for coal handling.

Uttarayan : Some Prohibition for Ecology and Environment

Jamnagar citizens should not fly Kites during early morning and late evening, says district Collector Sandeep Kumar.

A note from collector is made available to citizens says that this was required in order to reduce the accidents from kite flying to birds that are flying to and fro from their nests.

Chinese threads are also prohibited as this poses a major health risk for birds and humans, also the thread made from glass can chock the water distribution systems and disrupt electricity.

Vibrant Gujarat 2011 - Whats for Jamnagar

With MOUs over a One Lakh Crore being signed for Gujarat, Jamnagar and nearby places do get many MOUs in place.
With big names like Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani , Chanda Kochar etc announcing the details of various MOU, Saurashtra, Kutch and rest of Gujarat is looking forward for news of investments.

Mukesh Ambani may announce details of proposed power plant and newly known rubber plant built in collaboration with SIBUR  Russia, Essar has announced expansions of plant.

Vibrant Gujarat 2011 seen presence of Prime minister of Rawanda, Canadian High Commissioner.

The focus of the celebration was brand ambassador of Gujarat, Shri Amitabh Bachchan.

Vehicle Registration Number - Tender to start from 17th

A press note from RTO Jamnagar says that tenders for the premium vehicle registration numbers will be made available from 17th January.

New vehicle series for two wheelers, GJ-10-BB will have separate auction for premium numbers like 0001, 0007, 0009, to 9999.

Freak accident killed three labourers

In Rozi port area near Jamnagar, three labourers were killed in a tragic accident.


According to police officials, the labourers were sleeping under cotton bags due to sheer cold in the region, while they were sleeping in morning; other labours unaware that someone could be sleeping in the cotton bag pileup started dumping heavy substances and more cotton bags, resulting to death of three labourers. They died due to suffocation. In other incident a labour at Essar's oil refinery in Jamnagar district also died when a heavy substance fell off from a crane.

Ghumli Temple Renovation

An ancient temple in Ghumli holds special place as it stood as last symbol of Jethwa dynasty, Jethwa dynasty was crushed by Jam kings whose name marks the name of the Jamnagar province.

This almost a ruin temple is now looked upon by archaeological survey of India; recently some renovation work has been initiated in this part.
This place was capital of the Jethwa dynasty and was constructed by prince ShalyaKumar, this strategic location near Barda hills provided perfect cover from enemies, Ghumli flourished and became world renowned for trade in international markets. Jam kings attacked Ghumli in 1309 and in 1313, and they destroyed the town.
Ghumli is now a collection of only few huts of herdsmen, ASI will complete the works within 2 months and it will bring memories back of the Jethwa kings. Today ruins of Navlakha Palace (palace with a million statues), Bhan Gate etc can be seen.