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News: South Korea’s Posco joined Uttam Galva group to set up an estimated $3 billion steel plant in Maharashtra. Shree Uttam Steel & Power Ltd is fully owned by the Miglani Family who are the co-promoters along with ArcelorMittal of Uttam Galva Steels Limited. The latter is one of the ...

News: Gujarat State Regional Transport Corporation has planned to install Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in its express buses to provide real time updates to passengers. According to State Transport Minister, Vijay Rupani, GSRTC will be installing GPS in 2,200 express buses by the end of December this year. The facility ...

News:   As per the National Forest Policy, 1988 the state should have a forest cover of over 33 per cent of its total landmass area. Maharashtra government has come out with a new Green City policy that lays emphasis on afforestation on private land and on those reserved for community purposes, protection and increasing ...

News: Gujarat government announced plans to implement the Gujarat ( Right of Citizens to Public Services) Act 2013, which gives every citizen the right to time-bound delivery of public services, said Health Minister and spokesperson of Gujarat government Nitin Patel. “The Act provides that if the relevant service is not provided ...

News: Minister of State for Social Justice Dilip Kamble said government has decided to take the responsibility of those studying in the schools for the specially-abled children and are at present allowed to study in these schools till they turn 18. But now even after they cross the age 18 the ...

News: Wankaner’s clay craftsman Mansukhbhai Prajapati is a creator of the unique ‘Mitticool’ refrigerators that operate on zero electricity. He is now working on creating low cost, eco-friendly houses where the cooling and lighting will be completely natural. Mitticool Clay Creation earned Rs 50 lakh last year by selling products ...

News: CM Devendra Fadnavis said he had accelerated the plans, which includes a new Mumbai airport, scheduled to see its first flight in 2019. The project includes a road bridge, as well as a new city on a 600 square km plot around the airport which is the size of ...

News: Union Government will be providing Rs.10 crore for the pilot project for about 4000 houses in 50 villages in Jodhpur and Jaisalmer districts to light up using solar energy. The project will comprise installation of a tubelight, a LED, one fan and a battery charger with the solar panel and ...

News: The electricity regulator will be introducing the reverse bidding system for sale of solar power in Gujarat. The Electricity Regulator has proposed to set the price of solar power to upper limit of Rs 6.68 per unit from fixed price of Rs 8.39 per unit for new power plants ...

News: Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said he sought a report on all purchases made under the rate contract system in the last 10 years from government departments to gather information from various departments and to understand the facts. He said that 31,208 items are lying in godowns unused, that were bought in Financial Year ...