News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad, 25 April 2013

-Hanuman Jayanti was celebrated at Sarangpur, Camp na Hanuman(Amdavad) and other places across Gujarat on Thursday.

-Special CBI Court has denied permission to arrest ADGP PP Pande in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The court has given approval to arrest DG Vanzara through transfer warrant.

-Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Standing Committee has taken a decision to maintain city’s Ellis bridge as it is for now. A decision was taken to prepare feasibility report. All power to take a decision in this regard was handed over to Municipal Commissioner.

-Gujarat High Court has denied bail to BMW hit and run case accused Vismay Shah. Vismay has now only option left to challenge the verdict in Supreme Court.

-On behalf of Balaji Motion Pictures and White Feather Films, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Sanjay Gupta, Manoj Bajpai, Tusshar Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Sunny Leone and Sophie Choudry – starcast of soon-to-be-released film Shootout at Wadala will be in Amdavad on Friday. A press conference will be held on CG road, while a dance performance of Sunny and Sophie will be held at a resort on Gandhinagar highway in the evening.

–Gujarat Chief Minister’s online grievances addressal system SWAGAT(State Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology) has completed ten years. SWAGAT initiative kicked off on 24 April 2003. District level SWAGAT programmes were also kicked off on same date. On 1st January 2008, Taluka SWAGAT programmes were kicked off and in February 2011 Gram SWAGAT started. As per the official statement issued in this regard today, the SWAGAT programme has solved 90.4% complains by 2,80,754 applicants. Cheif Minister has allotted last Thursday of month to SWAGAT. As per this schedule, he attended the programme today also.