Four from a family killed in road mishap

Four members of a family got killed in a road mishap, read more at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/07/19/Four-killed-in-a-road-mishap.aspx

Brass Parts Industry - Help on the way

In a recent move, GTU and Techpedia started innovative approach to help revive the brass parts business in Jamnagar, read more at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/07/18/Brass-Parts-MoU-to-understand-business-challanges.aspx

Smuggled Diesel - tugboat seized

A tugboat carrying smuggled diesel seized, read at http://www.halar.org/post/2011/07/15/Tugboat-carrying-smuggled-diesel-seized.aspx

Around 80 girls of ahir community staying in  a hostel in Dhrol of Jamnagar were admitted to hospital for food poisoning late on Sunday.

All suffered were  given primary treatment by doctors at Dhrol hospital. But  seven girls in serious condition, were admitted in Jamnagar. Their condition is improving. Preliminary investigation suggests that contaminated water Is the main cause of this outbreak.

The hostel does not have a water purifier system.

Jamnagar Rain updates

Jamnagar district recorded 1/2 to 4 inch of rain in last 2 days, Jamnagar city received around 2 inch of rain by downpours of Saturday night, in various incidents many persons were rescued.

In other news, JMC will start taking fees of 3 Rs to visit the Kamala Nehru park near the Lakhota lake, this park visit fees will not be applied to kids below 5 years.

Bus overturned, eight killed

Around Eight people were killed and 30 were injured when a private luxury bus overturned near Falla village, this bus was carrying 50 passengers to Bhavnagar when it overturned near Falla on a rain slippery road.

Six people died on the spot while two others succumbed to death in hospital.

Politics ruins Lok Dayaro

Internal politics in a trust lead to cancellation of "Lok Dayaro" in Khambhaliya,



A charitable trust named, "Janseva Cheritable Trust" organized a Lok Dayaro, and invited popular artist "Farida Mir", but as the program got delayed, Police stopped the program at 10PM, the artists had to go back.



MP Vikram Madam was also present during this program.

Panic Picnic : 2 drowned at Balachadi

Two brothers Mahendra Padhiyar and his younger brother Prithviraj, drowned in the sea near Balachadi beach, on Friday. Both went to enjoy picnic along with bunch of friends, while swimming they got into a strong undercurrent and were drowned.

Jamnagar Fire Brigade officials have fished out the bodies from the sea.

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.

Appeal to citizens, keep the city clean.

Since childhood, I have seen jamnagar as it is today, same dust, crippled infrastructure, no access to public utility, very tough public transport and above all the only visiting place in city, Lakhota palace and lake in totally dismal condition.

Have left the city since last 13 years or so, every time I visit Jamnagar, I always had one hope, this time the road from railway station to city will at least be pothole free, Lakhota will be clean and the walls around it will be mended, all the near by gardens will have some signs of nature, those gardens won't be a open gambling place. Like new buildings of
State and city administration, i could see at least cleaned up and un-fractured public utility places.

And every time, my expectations managed to exceed ground reality, the ground reality is same in every "growing" city in India.

Where are the roads that I always dreamed, where is the clean city, where are dustbins, where are cleaners that I am sure JMC is showing in their annual accounts, where is the supposedly infrastructure expected by a municipal corporation of a city that has world largest grass root refinery, the city that contributes around 25-30% share in petroleum produce of this country, the city that has brass parts industries, defense, natural reservoirs, exotic beaches like Pirotan and narara.

Alas, it is a dream, and the reality check is far away from the dream, city administration does not care, nor any politicians, administrative officials or any citizen of this city, Yes, we all are equally responsible for the state of this city.

We citizens, clean our house, throw the trash outside, hoping those whom we pay tax will collect it for us, they will keep this city as clean and shining as we do with our house, we park our vehicles wherever we like, we ride them as if a child is learning how to play with a remote control car, we do push our kids to clean the house, but we don't teach them to keep the garbage in dustbin when we are out, we don't care to follow traffic, stay organized and of course maintain public cleanliness.

And we blame administration for not doing enough, if they are not doing enough, we all are equally responsible.

Anjali news channel has recently started campaign for saving Lakhota lake, let us all join and contribute all we can to make our city "Paris" again.