Cows killed in Tata Plant

Four cows were found dead in Tata's Mithapur chemical plant,

Dead bodies of 4 cows were found near the canteen waste disposal area, authorities are investigating but it is believed that the death of these cows may have been caused by waste chemicals.

Police is investigating further.

Ravindra Jadeja cash 2 million dollars in IPL auction

Emerging as one of the biggest winners of IPL auction, jamnagar's Ravindra jadeja managed to get 2 million usd. This amounts to rs 10 cr.

Ravindra jadeja was picked up by CSK, he was one of the banner players in the IPL 5 auction.

IPL Auctions : Ravindra Jadeja on big bet

3.5 Lakh birds in Jamnagar district

A bird population counting project in Jamnagar district lasted 3 days covering 150 sites across Jamnagar district. The project was undertook by district forest division and included ornithologists, forest staff, photographers, nature club members etc.

80,000 birds were estimated in Khijadiya alone. Lakhota lake (Ranmal lake) registered around 25,000 birds. Major species included Seagull, Rosy pastor, spot bill duck, pelican etc.

Common cranes were birds with highest population, common crane visit Jamnagar in winter.

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

Elephant killed a drunkard

Elephant was called in Jain celebrations almost a week back from Rajkot, and was scheduled to return to Rajkot today.

The elephant was resting in night when a drunkard from bhimvas named Vaghela started teasing the elephant, Elephant hit him with his trunk causing injury on his head and was killed on the spot.

Police had reported preliminary investigation and concluded the death as accidental one.

Truck - Jeep collision : 4 killed in road mishap

A deadly head-on collision between a truck and a passenger ferrying jeep resulted in death of 4 person and injured many.

On Sunday Morning, a cruiser jeep collided with a truck head-on at the Jamnagar-Khambhalia highway, police is investigating further.

Lakhota Lake - Soon without birds

Excess junk food feeding of Lakhota birds by ignorant citizens may force us to visit Lakhota without birds,
read more on http://halar.org/post/2012/01/25/Lakhota-Lake-Birding-Jamnagar.aspx

Unseasonal drizzle in Jamnagar

Unseasonal rain or drizzle dropped the temperature further in the city,

 

Sunday was one of the coldest day of the season, with snowy winds and light drizzle in the evening.

 

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.