BJP clean sweap for JMC Election

BJP won 35 seats and made clean sweap in JMC Elections, while Congress acquired 16 and 6 were for others

JMC Election - 50% Votier Turnout

Although this may be a low voter turn out, it is highest compared to other municipal corporation across the state, There were couple of incidents of EVM failures, names not found on list etc, else where the voting was peaceful.

Shravan Fair - Extended for 2 More Days

JMC has extended the Jamnagar Janmashtami Fair for 2 more days.

Frequent rains had dampened the spirits of citizens as they cant visit fair in heavy splashes. this news also bought cheers for the shop owners of the fair.

This 2 days also coincides with celebration of Eid, so organizers hope to recover the money via this extension.

Normally Shravan / Eid fairs brings lot of cloud and entertainment / business, however this year frequent rains throughout all three days of Shravan had spoiled the celebrations.

Baba Ramdev : Home Minister is Mental

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev kicked guns at Home minister P.Chidambaram and declared him as a possible mental patient

Baba Ramdev, was in Dwarka on the eve of Janmashtami, Journalists asked him about PC's remarks of "Saffron Terrorism".

Baba Ramdev said he was upset with this remarks, and called PC a metal patient, baba ramdev also suggested Yoga  and Pranayam as he can not see a difference between terrorism, Maoism and Naxalism. Baba ramdev was promoting his new political party Yatra from Dwarka.

Ancient Buildings in worst condition

Jamnagar, Once known as Paris of Saurashtra now cries for restoration of its famous ancient buildings, forts and great architectures.


Jamnagar Municipal Corporation spends millions in re-building the city circles, where it can not look for restoring famous Lakhota Lake Fort.


Take a case of Statue of Jam Raval near Lakhota Lake, this place is filled with dirt and is not cleaned since almost a year. The horse on which founder of Jamnagar seats, has lost 3 legs, this statue can fall at any moment. Lakhota Lake Fort itself is going under restoration since last 5 years with no progress.


Ironically the same department which is looking for these architecture (ASI) is spending around 32Lakh on cleaning up and painting a tower (Pancheshwar Tower) in city, building that are older then 150-200 years are completly ignored, this includes Bhujio Kotho, Lakhota Lake Fort, Khambhaliya Gate etc.


In last 5 years, JMC had spent more then 3-4 crore in gardening, plantation and slum cleanup which is though not visible here. Now only the alert citizens can wake up the JMC from its prolonged intended ignorance of the situation.

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev in Dwarka / Jamnagar

Yoga Guru, Baba Ramdev arrived yesterday in Jamnagar and will be staying in district for 3 days.

JamSaheb Shri ShatruShalyaji., Pabubha Manek, Dinesh Parmar welcomed him on the airport

Baba Ramdev will be launching his Yatra from Dwarka and will host Yoga Camp in these three days.

Garib Kalyan mela - organized in hapa

Garib Kalyan mela was organised by state's bjp government near hapa,
politicians like dilip sanghani, vasuben trivedi, mulubhai bera etc
were present.
Amount worth crores were distributed.
This was to note that jmc elections are on the way
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Municipal Elections around 3rd Oct

6 Municipal Corporation including that of Jamnagar may vote on 3rd Oct 2010.

Cairn - Farmers Issue Explosive : Vikram Madam

Jamnagar Congress leader and MP Vikram Madam raised the issue of ongoing conflict with Cairn and Farmers of Jamnagar in Parliament,
Vikram Madam warned the parliament of the extreme consequences if the farmers cries are not heard, he also said that this could be a ticking bomb.

Jamnagar MP Vikram Maadam claims that farmers across Jamnagar district are exploited by Cairn India by acquiring lands at dirt cheap rates.

This issue was raised in Lok Sabha, Vikram Maadam informed the parliament that Cairn India is extending its work from Rajasthan to Gujarat is forcing farmers to give up their precious lands at the price of mere Rs 40,000 per acre. The same size of land is costing 4Lakh in Aligarh and still farmers are protesting. there, Vikram Maadam said that Gujarat farmers are being forced by the company to sell land at cheap rate under pressure from the land mafia and the local administration.

Vasuben Trivedi in ministry

Jamnagar MLA and three other junior ministers were enroled into Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers, totaling the numbers to 21.

Vasubhen Trivedi, Jamnagar MLA is likely to get portfoli of child welfare.

Recruitment of this new squad coincides with elections in six municipal corporations, including Jamnagar.

Khushboo Gujarat ki - Video Launch

Khushboo Gujarat ki- first phase of Gujarat Tourism Promotion ad will be released on Monday, Amitabh Bachhan and Narendra Modi will be releasing this promo today.
 
Films on Asiatic Lion and Gir, will be promoted with the catch phrase sher dil (lion heart).

Amitabh Bachhan will visit Dwarka, Bet Dwarka and Nageshwar from 20th August onwards and will leave from Jamnagar for Mumbai.

Controversial Sports Complex Opening Today

Controversial sport complex will open today,  this complex was a subject of long conflict between JMC and Vishwanath Vyayam Mandal. This comlex was built with estimated cost of around  6 Crore,  

Considering the controversy JMC and the unit had gone through, the opening will not be grand but a quite one.

Updated : Subhash Trivedi , New Jamnagar DSP

 Surat's Deputy Police Commissioner(Crime) Shri Subhash Trivedi has been transferred to Jamnagar as Superintendent of Police.
[UPDATE]
Subhash Trivedi was in news in feb, when Trivedi shot state ATS inspector named Shabbir Ali.

This happened during a mock-drillin the Surat airport. Trivedi was leading the rescue team said he accidentally shot inspector from his service revolver.

ATS chief Ajay Tomar was asked to investigate in the matter

Water Scarcity - Mayor urges for conservation

With rain streatched in Jamnagar area, Jamnagar City Mayor Kanaksinh Jadeja has urged citizens to conserve water, Mayor also hinted at possible change in schedule of water distribution in few days.

7% Fire tax on Jamnagar Citizens

A bizarre legislature has induced additional 7% tax on Jamnagar Municipal Tax payers, Municipal corporation common meeting has passed this resolution, however opposition is suggesting to consult legal experts before passing this as law. Also Municipal Corporation is thinking on putting statue of "Jhansi Ki Rani" at Saat rasta circle and Statue of "Indira Gandhi" in the Indira Marg.

Dwarka Airport - Land Acquisition Started

Dwarka Tourism got its  booster now, Gujarat Tourism board has started plans of acquisition and distribution of additional 65 hector land near proposed Dwarka Airport,

This counts to total 222 hector land near Dhrevad village on Jamnagar-Dwarka state highway.

Initial plan revleals the runway length to be around 1.8 KM, this will enable a 300 passenger capacity jet to land in this proposed airport.

Orkut : New Weapon of a Doctor

A doctor is working on a cleaning operation, the govt doctor is trying to expose corruption in a government hospital through Orkut. this doctor has put up around 400 photos of the hospital in his orkut page.


One Dr Ketan Ranpariya has decided to fight the local health authorities to look into the corruption at Khambhalia General Hospital (KGH) of Khambhaliya in Jamnagar district, The doctor is an MBBS and also has PG in hospital management.

As a typical reaction local health department transferred him else where, but without much benefit. Ketan continued to spread his message.

Now health ministry and Ranparia are at each other's neck, and accusing of foul play from both sides.

For you to catch the action, check out a orkut page titled "Shuruat to Karo Badlega India". The orkut page lists hospital officials sleeping on duty, poor storage facilities, mishandling of bio waste, unhygienic drinking water facility and dirty toilets.

Kalavad: R C Faldu is Gujarat BJP President

Jamnagar's RC Faldu was appointed president of BJP's state wing.

Kalavad based R C Faldu has never supported groups within party, says Gopinath Munde.

Faldu is leuva Patel and had been associated with RSS since childhood.

Fisherman Release - Ten from Jamnagar

Ten Jamnagari fisherman amongst 631 will be released today by Pakistan.
These fisherman who were  caught by Pakistan Maritime Agency in period of many years, These inocents will be released from Vagha Border and will reach Ahmedabad by tomorrow.

JMC lok Adalat : Firecracker in the court

JMC lok adalat witnessed something on Tuesday which reminded the city of the Bhagat Sinh and the British Raj.

JMC officials, including mayor who were present, shocked when a person hurled a sutli bomb..

The reason which the bomb thrower gave was to let JMC do something about a broken idol of Shahid Bhagat Singh. Obvioulsly the lok adalat got cancelled and no action were taken against the cracker person.