Jamnagar Washed with first rain

Heavy rains slashed in gujarat,

Along with major city Ahmedabad rain lashed parts of Anand, Jamnagar, Kutch, Valsad, Dahod, Rajkot, Surat, Patan, and Dangs.

Jamnagar artist showcasing his works in Hartlepool exhibition.

Jamnagar artist showcasing his works in Hartlepool exhibition.

A Jamnagari Artist, Suresh Vagadiya, 67, is exhibiting a section of his paintings at Foggy Furze Library, in Hartlepool.

Suresh is from Jamnagar but has moved to Hartlepool in 2003 with his wife, to be nearer their family. Suresh is the first Indian member of the Hartlepool Art Club and has won several prizes.

He held his first landscape display in 2004 and now holds exhibitions every year.

Suresh explained that "Up until this time, I gave all my paintings as gifts and many of my friends have my paintings in their houses."

Jamnagar Leading Wind power generation in Gujarat

The Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), Director J M Acharya explained that private companies had installed their WTGs (wind turbine generators) on wind farms mainly located in the coastal districts of Jamnagar, Kutch, Rajkot and Bhavnagar,

Jamnagar has reported highest wind power generation till now (311.37 MW), second is Kutch (190.55 MW), Rajkot third (53.19 MW) , followed by Bhavnagar (13.20 MW).

As the wind electricity generation reaches 1,192 MW by this year end, there would be a total investment of over Rs 5,300 crore in this sector, he said.

The electricity generated from the WTGs will be metered on a monthly basis, jointly by GEDA and GETCO at the sending sub-station of 66 KV or above located at wind farm site. Under the new policy, the supervision charges being paid to GETCO at 15 per cent of the cost of power evacuation has been reduced to 7.5 per cent.

Jamnagar Water Crisis surfaces again

Water crisis is back in jamnagar,

 

now a days, water is supplied just once in three days

(Amreli is the worst hit place is where taps run dry for 10-12 long days)

 

The central reason is that in all these places, all local water resources have dried up and government had not planned for the Narmada water supply through Saurashtra canal, although canal is working but it is not efficient.

 

Ranjitsagar dam , which provides drinking water for jamnagar has just now hit the rock bottom, Sasoi dam which is second biggest for jamnagar city has reached to dead level,

 

Inadequate Narmada water supply has forced the JMC (Jamnagar Municipal Corporation) to supply water once in three days, instead of alternate day.

 

the onnnly dam , Und-2 has quantum of water but that too will be dried up in the end of July.

as a last resort, the JMC is now planning to draw water from Aji-III dam.

To maintain alternate day water supply, the JMC required around 150 lakh gallons. At present it has been facing deficit of around 40 lakh gallons per day. "The required quantum would be either drawn from Aji-III or Narmada to resume to alternate day supply,'' said Jamnagar Mayor Manhar Zala.

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Indian Air Force's single engine microlight expedition Round the World will kick off ,

This expedition will be flagged off by the Air Chief Marshal, F H Major, from the Hindon air base at 8 in the morning.

Wg Cdr Rahul Monga and Wg Cdr Anil Kumar will log a total of 40,806 kilometres in an attempt to beat the existing world record and create a new one in circumnavigating the world in a single engine aircraft.

The expedition will head off eastwards on June 1 and will make the first stop at Allahabad. After a few hours of rest, it will take off again towards Bagdogra. From there the duo will head out to Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Russia United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Oman and will finally return to India from the Western region into Jamnagar and to Delhi via Udaipur.
If all goes well, the expedition plans to end in Delhi on August 4.

The expedition, which has been in the planning stage for over a year with the Directorate of Air Adventure cell working at it, had to be put off at the last moment last year in order to allow it to commemorate the platinum jubilee of the Indian Air Force.

Jamnagar - Reliance's Mango Throughout year

Reliance greens, the green belt for Orchard mango farming in Jamnagar refinery is soread across 500 acres.

Even during winters last year, mangoes were produced successfully in the orchard, but the production was not enough to be marketed.

this year however Reliance employed horticulture experts who are now conducting research to produce sufficient quantity of mangoes during winters,

Nathwani said that the mangoes produced in Reliance orchard would be available in the country through Reliance fresh outlets, its retail chain stores, and would also be exported to Europe, United States of America and Japan, its to be noted that Harrods has already ordered 300 Tons of Mangoes from Reliance, around 450 tonnes of mangoes were produced in orchard this year. The researchers are also working on increasing the quality and quantity of the fruit.

Jamnagar - Ashapura Minechem gets approval for EOU

Jamnagar based Ashapura Minechem Ltd has announced that on applications made to the Development Commissioner, Kandla SEZ, Gandhidham, Kutch, the Company has received approvals vide their permission dtd. May 21, 2007 and dtd. May 17, 2007 to set up 100% Export Oriented Units (2 nos.) for Processed Bauxite at Jamnagar.

The said permissions are valid upto May 20, 2012 and May 16, 2012 respectively.

The grant of EOU status and operation of the said Units is likely to have a materially positive impact on the profitability of the Company.

Jamnagar - Human Bones found in Lakhota Lake

Large number of human bones, unearthed near Lakhota lake in Jamnagar city. Police investigation revealed that bones were dumped following medical research, however the local medical college denied throwing research waste in the open.

But panic set in among residents of Jamnagar when a large number of human bones were unearthed during a cleanliness drive conducted by the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation on Lakhota lake front on Friday.

MP Shah College, the only medical college in Jamnagar district, identifying the bones as used for study purpose,but denied throwing them out in the open.

DRI Examined RIL Jamnagar premise

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence Officials reached Jamnagar unit RIL on Monday to "examine" some accounts,

 

"It is a fact DRI officials are at the refinery. It is also a fact that they are examining some books of accounts. But it is too premature for me to say in what context the books are being examined," the spokesperson said here.

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Jamnagar - Traffic Policeman killed in a road Mishap

Traffic Policeman killed in a road Mishap

Jayvirsinh Jhala, An A.S.I. in Jamnagar traffic branch was crushed to death yesterday by a Coal Truck from N.R.E. Coke Ltd. a local Coal mining co. A FIR is filed against the driver and investigation is underway

Jamnagar - L&T to builds world's largest FCC Regenerators & Combustors

L&T builds one of the world's largest FCC Regenerators & Combustors

Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) has announced that the Company's Heavy Engineering Division-Hazira Works, has successfully built one of the world's largest FCC Regenerators & Combustors for Reliance Petroleum Ltd's (RPL) export oriented refinery coming up at Jamnagar, Gujarat.

The equipment is considered to be the heart of the RPL's refinery, which is billed as the fifth largest in the world. The Company had previously built a similar FCC regenerator and combustor for Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) refinery in Jamnagar in the year 1998.With the completion of the current project, the Company has successfully constructed the most critical components of Reliance's Jamnagar Complex, which is the world's single largest refinery complex in the world. The project is a testimony to the Company's ability and the faith reposed in it by RIL.The project, completed 6 weeks ahead of schedule, is a repeat order placed on the Company by Reliance for the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project (JERP). The contract was won by the Company under global competition.The Company received the order for this equipment in November 2005 and the delivery date was July 2007. The Company manufactured this equipment in a record time and is delivering it 6 weeks ahead of schedule.The main features of this equipment are a 16.3 metre diameter, an overall length of 40 metres and weight of 1320 MT. The material of construction for equipment is carbon-manganese steel with more than 170 MT of stainless steel internals.The process licensor for this equipment is UOP-USA, Mechanical Design (including the critical finite element analysis), detailed engineering and fabrication were done by the Company's Hazira Works. Transportation to this mammoth equipment will also be carried out by the Company.The flag-off ceremony took place at the Company on May 21, 2007 and the equipment will sail to Jamnagar and will reach JERP by end May 2007.The seamless execution of the project once again proves the Company's capability in fabricating such large equipment utilizing hi-tech fabrication techniques. The Company improved its own track record by delivering the equipment ahead of schedule and is now geared to fabricate more challenging and critical equipment for refineries around the world.Incidentally, the Company's Hazira Works is in the final stage of its capacity expansion project with which the shop capacity is doubled including a super-heavy bay which can handle 2000 MT plus weight equipment.

More Bride - Fleeing in Jamnagar

More Bride - Fleeing in Jamnagar

Seems that Jamnagari brides are bit confused about choices and are making decision at 11th Hour,

recently a patel girl escaped a night before marriage in bhavnagar district, and now a similiar incident is followed in Jamnagar as well,

Jamnagar's Sindhi girl escaped with a Khoja boy, just a night before the marriage.
it seems that Jamnagar girls needs more time on deciding "I, do".

Jamnagar - Protest in support to Datar victims

Junagadh came out in strength to support the bandh to support the victims of brutal Datar Hill incident.

By late evening, the protests spread to Jamnagar and Rajkot.

In junagadh, Congress and BJP joined hand in hand to protest against in-capability of police and demanded that the arrest should me made at earliest

Jamnagar - Nobat Celebrates 50 Years

Jamnagar's own Nobat an afternoon paper is in the 50th year of its publication.

Ratilal Madhwani started this paper in 1957 as a weekly in Rajkot, it graduated as a daily in 1964.

Ratilal had already shifted to Jamnagar in 1962 and so the weekly Nobat.

Nobat is an integral part of Jamnagar life, its present editor and son of the founder editor Pradip Madhwani said that a function would be held on June 7 in the city to mark the event. Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be the Chief guest and renowned Ramkathakar Morari Bapu is like to preside over the June 7 celebrations, he said. Though it is a noon paper, Nobat has played a pivotal role in the public life of Jamnagar.

Jamnagar - Parsvnath Bids a housing project from JMC

Parsvnath Developers Ltd - India’s leading real estate developer is to develop a Group housing complex on a plot measuring 13,200 sq.mt. in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Jamnagar has witnessed a rapid economic development in the recent years। The complex would give an opportunity to provide a new dimension to lifestyle in the city.

The co। won the project in a fiercely competitive bid and emerged as the highest bidder to bag the project. The complex would be a landmark property for the city. Parsvnath emerged successful in an auction tendered by Jamnagar Municipal Corporation (JMC).

Located few minutes away from the city airport, the Housing complex would be situated on 100 feet wide main road, making it the most sought after complex in the city। The project will provide all the infrastructure facilities and luxuries to its residents।

Niho To Build Gujarats Biggest Mall In Jamnagar

Sheers size of forthcoming "Scottish City Centre" will make it biggest Mall In Gujarat,

 

This was announced by Niho Const. , this will open western Indian market for the real estate major from Delhi.

'After the success of our 'Scottish' series in Delhi and NCR, we decided to expand to the western parts of India. The 'Scottish City Centre' will be the first of its kind mall in Jamnagar,' said Neeraj Karoul, marketing head of Niho Construction.

It will come up on 800,000 square feet at Jamnagar, the firm said in a release Monday.

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मुकेश अम्बानी कि दुविधा - सुविधा

भैया मुकेश का हैप्पी जन्मदिन ऐसे मोके पे आया हैं कि उनका कॉंग्रेस के प्रति लगाव और अनिल भाई से अलग रहेने कि इच्छा साफ साफ जाहिर होती हैं

जामनगर मे वेह अपना ५० वा जन्मदिन रिलायंस के कर्मचारिगन और कुछ जानी मानी हस्ती के साथ बिता रहें हैं

१९ - अप्रील को वे ५० साल के हो जायेंगे

लिस्ट मे इंडियन फिल्म इंडस्ट्री के सितारे और राजनेता भी हैं , शाहरुख़ खान, सुनील मित्तल, कमल नाथ वगेरा उस लिस्ट मे शामिल हैं। गौर तलब हैं कि आमिर और शाहरुख़ खान पहली बार जामनगर आएंगे.

इसी दौरान मुम्बई मे बिग बी अपने बेटे के शादी का लिस्ट बाँट रहें हैं, उस मे अमर सिंह, मुलायम सिंह, अनिल भैया, विलास राव देशमुख, बाल ठाकरे वगेरा शामिल हैं।

जामनगर मे एक क्रिकेट मैच भी होगा जो मेहमान और रिलायंस के कर्मचारी के बीच होगा,

मुकेश कि पत्नी नीता उनके पतिदेव को एक बायो - पिक गिफ्ट करेंगी, जो राकेश मेहरा ( आर डी बी ) ने डायरेक्ट कि हुई हैं, जिसमे मुकेश के घर वाली और दोस्तो ने मुकेश के बारे मे अच्छी अच्छी बाते कहीँ हैं

गुरुवार को जामनगर मे यह गिफ्ट दिया जाएगा

धन्यवाद

ब्रिजेश पंड्या

Brass Parts Owners strike

Nearly 3,000 brass part units in Jamnagar, were on a symbolic one-day strike to protest the substantial surge in the prices of brass scrap,
At London Metal Exchange (LME) and local commodity exchanges, brass parts prices have been constantly rising for the past four months. Manufacturers said that the prices have increased to Rs 270/kg, from Rs 215/230 four months ago.
its a bit strange as the prices were as low as Rs 80/100 two years ago , it is to be noted that Brass scrap is a key raw material used by the industry.
A leading brass parts manufacturer explained that speculative trading in brass and copper at the LME and other commodity exchanges had hugely contributed to the woes of the brass parts industry.
Currently most of the brass part units were operating at 40% / 50% capacity , a higher tax burden is also a cause of concern for the industry, bit shame that of the Rs 270 per kg of brass scrap, brass parts units have to bear a tax burden of Rs 36/Kg .
morever prices of finished products have not increased as much as the prices of raw material, which has left all the brass part units in the lurch.

Man died while watching World Cup

A forty-five-year-old man died in Jamnagar while watching the cricket World Cup match between India and Bangladesh.

The family is not sure if the man died due to the shock triggered by India's poor display in its opening match.

Vinod Koetcha, a fruit vendor, was listening to radio commentary to in the evening and closed his shop after dark to watch the remaining action on television with his family members, soon he suddenly stopped responding and when he was called, he was motionless.

Vinod's wife, four children and brother rushed him to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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Last flight of Mig 23 - Warlords

Four of the remaining five Mig-23 MF fighters will take to the skies one last time on the coming Tuesday at frontline Air Force Station, Jamnagar.

IAF 224 Squadron will give up its 24-year-old fighter plane Mig-23 MF, which has covered 32,581 flying hours.

Mig-23 MF or Raksha, will fly for the last time on March 31 and that will bring end to the operations of 224 Squadrons known as Warlords.

Warlords will then end their operations temporarily and begin when re-equipped with new aircrafts and assigned a new operational role.
 
This Squadron was raised on July 4, 1983 at AFS Adampur in Punjab.

The Warlords moved from Adampur to Halwara in Punjab in 1996 and then to Jamnagar in September 1997.

Mig-23 MF is one of the first IAF fighters to be equipped with R-23 R and R-23 T, Beyond Visual Range (BVR), Air-to-Air missiles that carry 96 rockets and 1.5 tonnes of bombs of 100, 250 or 500 kg calibers and can attain a speed of approximately 2500 Kmph.

Mig-23 MF is a swing-wing interceptor capable of delivering an array of missiles bombs and guided weapons, It also trains IAF pilots in air-to-air fighting skills.

Warlords have participated in several operations including 'Operation Meghdoot' ( defence of Siachin glacier in 1985-86). They were also adjudged the "Best Overall Fighter Squadron".

 

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Barda and Bootleggers

Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Jamnagar is known for its most diverse floral compositions, and is home for many leopards, nilgais, endangered spotted eagles and wild boar, but now is turning into a hub of bootleggers. This hilly terrain spread over Porbandar and Jamnagar.

Local 'maldharis' who train camels to carry the illegal consignments produced and supplied 7,000 barrels of liquor to various districts of Saurashtra.

Every year, thousands of barrels of liquor are seized. Familiar with the hilly terrain, locals use it to carry out the illegal trade with ease.

On February 26, the Ranavav police arrested two men, Pola Mori and Lakha Lakhman, for transporting liquor on camel. The interrogation of Mori and Lakhman revealed that they train camels to find ways through terrain. These camels are loaded with barrels; they find their way down the hill by themselves.

Interestingly, these camels are so well trained that they are can change the path on hearing sound of vehicles or on seeing khaki colour.

2 Ships burnt in Jamnagar

Salaya port in Jamnagar district is in news, Two vessels docked were gutted late on Monday.

The fire, which spread from a diesel tank of one of the vessels was stopped on Tuesday by about 100 fire-fighters.

Salaya port is located at 80 km from Jamnagar, the two ships were 350 tonnes Safina Al Salimi and 1,000 tonnes Ali Baug
both were owned by Salim Karim Sanghar of Salaya town.

First to reach were Eight fire-fighters, including three of Jamnagar Municipal Corporation (JMC), two from Essar, one each from Reliance, Khambhalia nagarpalika and IOC.

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CISF For Jamnagar Airport

More terrorist threats are faced for civil airports, hence the government has decided to extend CISF security cover to eight more airports in the country.

The include Srinagar, Leh, Gorakhpur, Bhavnagar, Dehra Dun, Jamnagar, Porbandhar and Shillong.

Though, Srinagar airport will still be under the control of a Joint Command of various central security forces said DG of CISF.

CISF personnel guard 54 airports including the newly-privatised ones at Delhi and Mumbai and the Greenfield airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

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Union budget - Nothing for Saurashtra

Hopes of Saurashtra businesses and industries died as Union budget was anounced, be it owner of small scale industries, ceramic factories, quartz units or metal industry.

There is Little relaxation in central excise duty for diesel engines and foundry units have dampened hopes for their revival (good for Rajkot), while the ceramic industry's dream to compete with China, with a cut in excise duty and VAT, has crashed.

PC's budget has badly hit brass parts industry in Jamnagar and diesel and foundry units in Rajkot, these both industry are dying.

Brass parts industry in jamnagar wanted relaxation in central excise duty upto Rs 8 crore from Rs 1 crore and relaxation in service tax upto Rs 10 lakh from current Rs 4 lakh.

According to Ramji Patel, president, Jamnagar Factory Association, the budget has disappointed the industry.Others like diesel manufacturing and foundry units in Rajkot also expected a Rs 3 crore relaxation in central excise, though FM has increased the slab for central excise duty upto Rs 1.5 crore.

Same goes with the diesel engine industry in Rajkot.

 
In Morbi ceramic industry, 12.5 per cent VAT has also been hindrance in competing with China. These industry demanded the VAT slab to be reduced by 4%. It was a mixed bag for the Morbi quartz industry.

 

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Gujarat State budget 2007-08

Gujarat State budget for 2007-08 has some good news for the common man., which means reduction in power bills, registration charges for immovable property and stamp-duty, and simplified motor vehicle tax.

Electricity duty is reduced to 20% from 30 % for following category.

vegetable shop owners,
Xerox machine operators,
STD/PCO operators, tailors,
hair-cutting saloons,
laundry owners,
panshop owners,
groceries,
cutlery provision stores,
stationery,
toys,
hosiery,
book stall,
small shops of milk products,
cyber cafes,
internet service providers,
cable operators,
petrol pumps,
farsan shops,
water kiosks,
pathology laboratories,
godowns,
private blood banks and hospitals,
cemeteries,
private libraries...

Government also offers the stamp duty relief of Rs 126 crore by bringing it down from 5.95 % to 4.9 %.

Proposed motor vehicle is to do away with the present fuel-based classification of vehicles, this tax now will be on the sale price of vehicles, this will reduce the present 67 tax rates to 18.

Government plans to provide domestic piped natural gas to towns like Vapi, Valsad, Navsari, Sarigam, Nadiad, Chandkheda, Motera, Rajkot, Morbi, Ahmedabad, Anand, Mehsana and Himmatnagar.

CNG stations will be set up at 20 places on the State highways by 2008 including Vapi, Valsad, Navsari, Bharuch, Nadiad, Kalol, Mehsana, Chandkheda, Bamanbor, Morbi, Rajkot, Amreli, Jamnagar and Bhuj.

 

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Jamnagar - Chevron chief in town

Chevron Corp Chairman and Chief Executive David J o'Reilly is in Jamnagar to review the progress of Reliance Petroleum Ltd's 580,000 barrels per day refinery, where it has a 5 per cent stake, Chevron has future rights to purchase additional shares to increase its equity ownership to 29 per cent.

 

RPL currently operates a 660,000 barrels per day refinery in Jamnagar.

RPL plans to invest 6B USD in the new refinery, which is expected to begin operations in December 08.

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Jamnagar - Chevron and Bhatinda - Mittal

On Tuesday Luxembourg-based Mittal agreed to a 0.7 B USD stake in  Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Ltd. refinery, which has a capacity of 180,000 barrels per day. Under the deal Mittal will own 49 percent , HPCL will own 49 percent, and the rest will be offered to financial institutions.

The deal with Mittal comes amid speculation that Chevron will expand its stake in privately owned RPL's proposed 27 million-ton, 580,000 barrels-per-day export refinery in Jamnagar, from 5 percent to 29 percent.

 

The $6 billion refinery is expected to begin operations in late 2008.

 

Chevron and Reliance may also partner on the KG Basin`s D6 deep-sea gas block,  which is believed to hold 35 trillion cubic feet of reserves.

 

HPCL and Mittal are exploring overseas refining and marketing opportunities and are looking to bid for foreign oil and gas assets.

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Dwarka - Medieval age city found

Underwater wing of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has recovered some of the remains of medieval age city, off the coast of this pilgrim town Dwarka in the Jamnagar District.

Recent discovery has once again raised hopes of the discovery of Lord Krishna's legendary city of Dwarka that is reported to have submerged.

The recent excavation revealed a structure of stone blocks with post holes to fit wood, team found coins, pottery, pieces of bangles and toys.

The discovery is an important landmark as it set to rest the doubts expressed by historians about the very existence of the legendary Dwarka city, the third excavation began on January 1, 2007.

Current excavation would definitely help them reach some conclusion.
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Mehul Kumar summoned by Court

Film maker Mehul Kumar has been summoned by a court over dishonoured cheques.

Jayantilal Gada, Director of Popular Entertainment Network (PEN) has filed 12 criminal complaints against Kumar over bounced cheques for Rs 14.19 million , Bandra court in has issued 12 summons to Mehul Kumar.

PEN has accused the producer and director of films like Mrityudaata, Krantiveer, Lahoo Ke Do Rang and Kohram, of diverting the money borrowed from the company to set up a multiplex in Jamnagar, Gujarat, it was later agreed that Kumar would "peacefully" give possession of Mehul Multiplex in Jamnagar, before April 15, 2006 or he would raise a loan and pay back 90 per cent of the loan amount before February 28, 2006.

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Parsvnath Developers to build a Jamnagar Township

Parsvnath Developers Ltd will develop townships, group housing, commercial complexes, IT Parks amongst others at Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Rajkot, Vadodra, Surat, Jamnagar and other districts in Gujarat, company signed a MoU with Government of Gujarat for developing various projects at an investment of Rs 1600 crore over a period of 2-3 years.
 

The MOU between Parsvnath Developers Ltd (PDL) and Government of Gujarat (GOG) was singed. Mr. Ashim Gandhi, Vice President, (Gujarat and Strategic Planning) of Parsvnath Developers Ltd signed the MOU with Mr. K. Srinivas, Managing Director of GUDC at Ahmedabad in the presence of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The Government of Gujarat in the Vibrant Gujarat Urban Summit 2007 had invited investment from real estate developers to develop townships.

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Harappan site discovered at Jamnagar

A Harappan site has been discovered at Pithad village in Jodia taluka of Jamnagar district in Gujarat, experts says, could be as big as the Lothal site and had existed around 4,500 years back.

So far, the MSU excavation programme team has unearthed a huge wall, kilns to make clay utensils, and ovens to melt metal.
The study of configuration of the wall revealed the Harappan village was spread over about 11 hectares, site is located on a mound, locally known as Jedak Ni Tekri. There are over 300 Harappan civilsation sites in Saurashtra, which are called Sorath Harappan. 

Ajith Prasad, a reader with MSU says that its a huge wall which appears to have been constructed to protect the village. with 270 metre in length and 90 metre in width. The village was spread over the an area of 11 hectares.

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Mid Air collision averted by ATC

A mid-air collision between a passenger plane and chartered flight of reliance was averted on Tuesday afternoon near Rajkot.

Jet Airways flight with around 100 passengers was on its way to Rajkot from Mumbai, the pilot reported a plane flying at the same altitude. ATC had to instructed the pilot who flew down his plane and a mishap was avoided.

The chartered flight was going to Jamnagar from Mumbai and was hired by Reliance. 

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Budget approved for JMC

Rajkot and Jamnagar Municipal Corporations have approved budgets for the financial year 2007-08.

JMC had proposed new taxes to earn additional Rs 60 crore. However, the standing committee of the JMC has rejected the proposal of imposing new taxes. The committee has approved total budget of Rs 174.47 crore for the fiscal 2007-08.

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Petron Begs more order from Jamnagar and Nirma

Petron Engineering Construction bagged two orders for a total amount of Rs 100 million from Reliance Petroleum, Jamnagar

 

these orders are for electrical jobs in sulphur with an estimated value of Rs 55.7 million and electrical jobs in coker amounting Rs 44.3 million.
The company is engaged in construction and project engineering. Its plant is located in Vadodara.

The company on Dec. 15, 2006 received a letter of intent (LOI) from Nirma for fabrication and erection of validation project expansion and mechanical piping for LAB plant at Alindra, Baroda for a contract value of Rs 12.5 million.

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Fire broke at Essar Refinery

Essar Oil at Khambhalia Police Station in Jamnagar district, by the relative of a person who died in the fire which broke out in the pipeline of Vadinar terminal of the company on Feburary 1.

Ratakumar Mandal whose relative was one among four persons who died in the fire registered the complaint on Saturday, police said.

 
 
The complainant has said that four persons died and 18 were injured when they were working to repair the pipeline which was already leaking. Four labourers were killed and 16 others injured when a fire had broke out in a pipeline of Essar Oil's Vadinar terminal.

However, the fire was quickly doused by fire tenders of the company and the injured contract workers were rushed to hospital for treatment.

The fire has not affected the functioning of the refinery and it continued working normally as the pipeline where the fire broke out was far from the terminal.

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Fire in Essar oil refinery

Essar Oil is in trouble, a Compalint is filed at Khambhalia Police Station in Jamnagar district.

By the relative of a person who died in the fire which broke out in the pipeline of Vadinar terminal of the company on Feburary 1.

 

Ratakumar Mandal whose relative was one among four persons who died in the fire registered the complaint on Saturday. 
 
Four persons died and 18 were injured when they were working to repair the pipeline which was already leaking.

Four labourers were killed and 16 others injured when a fire had broke out in a pipeline of Essar Oil's Vadinar terminal.

 

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Do you know - Reliance Jamnagar Township

Nita Ambani was in-charge of Reliance Jamnagar Township construction and of-course for the Reliance greens, which produces best and highest quality of mangoes in Asia.

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Asiatic Lions will have new home

State Government has decided to introduce big cats to the region of Barda Hills lying between Porbandar and Jamnagar, this eliminates the possibility of shifting the Gir lion to Madhya Prades, Barda with the 192.35 sq km of undulating terrain is declared as Sanctury, but is yet to get its share of lion population.

As a preparation for this, breeding centre for antelopes and hare was started sometime ago.
The region already has a healthy population of blue bull and wild boar.

The minister said apart from Barda, the area between Savarkundla and Mahuva spread over 125 sq km too was being strengthened as a lion habitat.

Asiatic lion population is spread over 1450 sq km in the State, with the last census pegging the figure at 359.

 

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Jamnagar - Reliance Retail Rocks

Reliance Retail will launch its first hypermarket in March in Ahmedabad.

Its hypermarkets, will be called Reliance Mart, will house boutique hotels. Of the company's 1,500 hypermarkets, 30 will come up in Gujarat.

The first hypermarket, earlier scheduled for December at Iscon Mega Mall near SG Highway in the city, will now roll out in the first quarter of next year.

Parimal Nathwani, group president, corporate affairs, Reliance Retail, said: "Our first hypermarket is scheduled to be launched in March on SG Highway."

Sources added that Reliance Retail has purchased 2 lakh sq ft at Iskon Mall in Ahmedabad for Rs 9 crore. The company has paid Rs 7 crore as stamp duty, the highest paid by any construction firm in the state, sources added.

"The refinery in Moti Khawadi is spread over 5 lakh sq ft and will house a hotel and multiplex. The company has roped in foreign architects for this project," a realtor from Jamnagar said.

Besides, Reliance will open retail outlets in Jamnagar, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar as well, sources said. Reliance has also leased 1.25 lakh sq ft at a shopping location in Greater Noida.

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Jamnagar - Essar begs 1000 MW Plant

Essar Power has finally bagged a power project from the Gujarat government after a long bidding process.

The project estimated at Rs 40 billion, essentially envisages a 1,000 MW imported coal based power project in Jamnagar.

 

Essar Power had quoted Rs 2.40 per unit as the lowest bid for the power project as against China Light & Power Hong Kong, Tata Power, Torrent Power who were also in the race.

Recently, the appellate electricity tribunal set aside the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission`s (CERC) order prohibiting Essar Power from selling electricity to trading companies and entering into pacts with distribution companies directly for its 1,500 MW project in Gujarat.

Essar, which is likely to commission 750 MW capacity by April 2007, had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with PTC in August 2004, under which it agreed to sell the entire power to the trading company for 25 years. PTC, in turn, was to sell the electricity to state utilities.


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Jamnagar - 1K MW RIL Power plant

Reliance Industries (RIL) is planning to set up India's first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in Jamnagar at an investment outlay of Rs 10,000 crore.

 

RIL will use petcoke, a refinery residue which is usually blended with coal to be used as fuel for power plants.

 

The IGCC technology would provide for the petcoke to be gasified before it can be used to produce heat and electricity, fertilisers, hydrogen and petrochemicals this powerplant will generate at least 1,000 mw

 

The increased power capacity will be utilized by RIL to meet its increased requirement, and also by other players setting shop within the RIL SEZ.


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