15.88 L saplings planted in a single day in Banaskantha
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: A year-and-a-half of continuous preparations culminated in the achievement of a herculean task by Banaskantha district
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17 districts in Gujarat declared drought-hit
New Delhi: Union agriculture ministry has declared 17 districts of Gujarat consisting 132 talukas as drought-affected. In a reply to Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, union minister of water resources Harish Ravat stated that the districts include Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surendranagar and Vadodara. The minister also stated that, water being a state subject, planning, and execution and funding of water resources projects was within the purview of respective state governments.
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Diabetic woman forced to herd cattle to stay fit
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: At daybreak, this 45-year-old woman in Chhaniyan village in Vadgam taluka of Banaskantha gets ready for her morning walk. And, when she leaves, she has in tow a rather strange company. Held in her hands are ropes that are pulling along a buffalo.
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25K saplings sown along Indo-Pak border in N Gujarat
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: A massive afforestation drive under Border Area Development Programme (BADP) was launched on Sunday by the district administrations of Patan and Banaskantha in a grand way at Nadabet near the Indo-Pak international border.
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Private tubewells banned in 54 talukas of north Gujarat
Faced with rapid depletion of ground water, the Gujarat state government has banned digging of new tubewells in 54 talukas of north Gujarat's Mehsana, Patan, Sabarkantha and Banaskantha districts,
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Villagers kill leopard after it attacks 9 in Banaskantha
Palanpur: A leopard was killed by angry villagers of Tirth village in Vav Taluka in Banaskantha district on Sunday after it injured at least nine villagers, including a forest beat guard, police said. The shocking incident took place in presence of more than 30 police jawans and a dozen forest officials.
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Review gauchar land policy: HC to govt
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court suggested that the state government review its policy regarding gauchar land and its allocation, and asks it to evolve a “workable and practicable” policy. The court said so with observation that it should revisit all resolutions passed time to time particularly if the government cannot adhere to its own policy. This suggestion came from the bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala, which dismissed a PIL filed by villagers from Banaskantha district.
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North Gujarat towns facing drinking water crisis
More than 30 towns and cities of North Gujarat's Mehsana, Patan, Sabarkantha, Banaskantha and Gandhinagar districts are faced with acute drinking water shortage, which will deepen in the next few
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600-Mw solar power projects to be commissioned soon
Solar power projects with a total capacity of 600 Mw will soon be commisioned at a ceremony at Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka village in Radhanpur, officials of Gujarat Power Corporation said here on Sunday. The projects at Solar Park currently has an aggregate capacity of 214 Mw.Twenty one new projects generating 210 Mw of solar power would be commissioned at the Solar park on April 19 by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while other projects have been developed at Anand, Banaskantha, Jamnangar, Junagadh, Kutch, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surat, and Surendranagar, they said.
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3 die of dengue in Kutch village
Bhuj: Three members of a family died of dengue in Ade-sar village of Rapar taluka here on Monday. "Amba Sindhal, 28, his wife Shanti, 27, and mother Hasi, 70, succumbed. The trio was diagnosed dengue positive and admitted to a private hospital in Radhanpur in Ba-naskantha, where they died of kidney failure on Monday," said additional district health officer Dinesh Sutariya.
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Talk water, then safety: BJP land
Water scarcity, power shortage, rising unemployment and lack of development have made the BJP unpopular in several parts of districts like Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Patan and Mehsana. "The BJP is
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State approves Rs 2,400 cr Narmada Irrigation Project
The Gujarat government has approved a major Rs 2,400 crore irrigation project based on Narmada waters to be released through a pipeline network in north Gujarat's Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Banaskantha,
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Modi dedicates Dharoi project to north Gujarat
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi dedicated Rs 310 crore Dharoi Group Water Supply Scheme that will supply purified, fluoride-free water to 596 villages of Mehsana, Patan and Banaskantha districts
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Vyas dubs pipeline project an 'impractical dream'
Gujarat government's tearing hurry to lay a network of pipelines in north Gujarat lifting waters from the Narmada main canal to irrigate large areas in Mehsana, Patan, Sabarkantha and Banaskantha
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Alarming decline in groundwater level
The entire central zone of Banaskantha district of Gujarat faces the grim prospect of losing its ground water since the present level has touched rock bottom, making any future digging of wells
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Depletion in ground water
The entire central zone of Banaskantha district of Gujarat faces the grim prospect of losing its ground water since the present level has touched the rock bottom, making any future digging of wells
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Extinct!
Roar of the tigers will not be heard in Gujarat any more
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- Human efforts can reverse desertification
Droughts and uncontrolled human activities are accelerating the desertification process in the scarcity-hit districts of Kutch and Banaskantha districts in
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Fluorosis taking its toll in N Gujarat
595 villages of Banaskantha and Patan districts in North Gujarat are suffering from excessive fluoride content in their water. The excess fluoride has resulted in many vaillagers suffering from
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Narmada waters to check salinity ingress
More than 2,000 villages of Mehsana, Patan and Banaskantha district in North Gujarat will be partly relieved of health hazards caused by salinity ingress and fluoride content in water; following