Rajat Jayanti Mahotsav Sidsar 2012 - Jamnagar

[Update]

Recently Khodaldham (Kagvad - Rajkot) saw the show strength by Leuva Patel (LP) community.

Kadva Patel (KP) community who has equally strong base is all set to give fitting reply this february in Jamnagar's Sidsar. "Maa Umiya nu Tedu" (Invitation by deity Umiya) is already sent to 2.5 Lakh Kadva Patel families living in 747 villages in Saurashtra.

This religious and social event will be a showcasing event to show unity and strength, this will also mark the silver jubilee celebration of Umiyadham at Sidsar in Jamnagar, the event will be held between February 9 and 13. 


The Kadva Patel event will be inaugurated by CM. Modi, unlike the Leuva Patel event which was a LP only event. 


KP event's media cell is managed by Rajni Patel and he explained this event as non-political and solely for followers of Umiya, prominant names who confirmed the presence includes chief minister Narendra Modi, Baba Ramdev, Shri Shri Ravishankar, Morari Bapu, Rameshbhai Oza etc. Chief minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event on February 9.

Entire Mahotsav will run for 5 Days Mahotsav, and will cover 250 Acres of Land.
This event will be a milestone in terms of event management. The event will feature 25 Dining Hall on 15 Lac sq. ft land, 23 Lac Sq. ft Mandapa, 50 Lac Sq. ft flooring, Grand Agricultural fare, Industrial Fair & Book Exhibition, Colourful & Entertaining Amusement Park, 200 sign boards, 15 lighting towers, the organising committee is also promising world class grand cultural programmes throughout the five day bonanza. Complete event is spawn across 255 acres.

Recently, around 41 crore was received in donation in just three hours for the event, the management is expecting total 25 lakh visitors in five days. 

Besides the usual social activities a new and better initiative for eye donation registration will be carried out, around 2 Lakh Kadva Patel community members will register for eye donation during this five-day mahotsav in Sidasar near Jamnagar, 15 counters will be setup for this registration. 11,000 volunteers are managing this complete process. A parallel blood donation drive will collect 6,000 bottle of blood.

There is a plan to collect 25 million USD (around rs 125 Cr.) in the event, expected are 400 NRI families who will can travel from Rajkot to Sidsar via a paid helicopter service.

Event will be live telecast on Zee Jagran,   Online live telecast will be available on http://mahotsav.umasidsar.org/video.php?PHPSESSID=70ebb2fdb8a7352943b349dedcfdfc93

Sidsar is well known pilgrim place for Patel community, contact the management and advt. staff below for more details.

Shree Umiya Mataji Mandir Trust-Sidsar
At: Sidsar - 360 530, Tal: Jamjodhpur
Dist: Jamnagar, Saurashtra (Gujarat-India)
Phone: (91 2898) 274435, 274735, 274700
Fax: (91 2898) 274474

Thanks to : http://mahotsav.umasidsar.org/cmspage.php?id=35 

Special Women Cell At INS Valsura - HC Verdict

In a verdict for Navy, Gujarat high court has directed the office of the Indian navy, INS Valasrua, at Jamnagar to create a special cell to listen to women Naval staff's grievances.


This came in wake of a complaint of a woman clerk who had alleged that she was sexually harassed by a male colleague at the office. High court stated that the new cell will be useful to prevent sexual harassment of women at the workplace.

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