Gujarat

On Aug 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation an irrigation project that he launched as CM of Gujarat 4 years ago. This is an ambitious plan to fill 115 reservoirs in water-scarce Saurashtra with waters of overflowing Narmada in South Gujarat. It involves laying a 1,125-km

To improve the skewed child sex ration of 890 girls to 1000 boys a hospital in Gujarat will waive off charges if a girl child is born. The Sindhu Hospital run by Sindhu Sewa Samaj has launched this initiative last month. Read Bharat Yagnik's report in TOI.

How life changes when electricity comes to an area is very well expressed in a report by Gopal Kateshiya in The Sunday Express. The story relates to Shiyal Bet, a Gujarat island that saw electricity for the first time on June 11. A must read.......

गुजरात के 4800 गांवों को "बाहर में मलत्याग करने से मुक्त" (ओडीएफ) घोषित किया गया केन्द्रीय पेयजल और स्वच्छता सचिव श्री परमेश्वरन अय्यर ने आज गुजरात का राजकीय दौरा किया जहां उन्होंने मुख्य सचिव और प्रमुख सचिव (सफाई) से मुलाकात कर "बाहर में मलत्याग करने से मुक्त" (ओडीएफ) स्थिति के प्रगति की समीक्षा की

Six farmers of Dhundi, a village in Gujarat's Anand district, join hands to harness solar energy for watering their fields. And they will sell their surplus power to the state grid. The cooperative that these farmers have formed is Solar Pump Irrigators' Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE). An excellent