Quick news from across Gujarat on Monday, August 4th

Ahmedabad, 4 August 2014

Here are all important news from across Gujarat on Monday, August 4, 2014. The news covered in other posts are not included in this post.

-Officers of Gujarat government and Indian Army today visited the border area of Kutch close to Lakhpat and Kori creek and measured a piece of land possibly for setting up an Army institute here. It is believed that the district

-Collector has given clearance for allotment of 500 acre land to Indian Army. The final approval of land allotment will be okayed by the state government. It should be mentioned here that the Chief of the Border Security Force had also visited the place a few days back.

-All turbines of Narmada dam at Sardar Sarovar site are now stopped due to no significant fresh inflow from upstream area. Till Sunday, one turbine was in operation.

-Rajkot BJP’s Kisan Morcha president Dr. Bhagvanjibhai Patel was arrested by police on Sunday night as he was found drunk on driving seat in his car and possessing sharp weaopn and an air gun which was looking like revolver. Patel is BSAM and owns Dhanvantari clinic in Mavadi plot area. When police team was on patroling near Pradyuman park, a white Honda City was found parked there. ‘President, BJP Kisan Morcha, Rajkot’ was written over a number plate of the car. When police checked, they found Bhagvanji Patel drunk. When checked a sharp weapon with still grip(dhariyu) was found from inside the car. Police also found a revolver which was actually air gun. Police found

-Bhagvanjibhai possessing a fake identity card of electronic media. Police arrested Bhagvanbhai for breach of public notification and prohibition offenses. He was later released on bail.

-The city of Rajkot will get additional Narmada water following improved level at the dam. This will save people of Rajkot from cut in water supply in near future.

BJP Lok Sabha MP Naranbhai Kachhadia on Sunday received threats over his mobile phone by unidentified person. Kachhadia has lodged complaint in Amreli police station in this regard. He has also contacted minister of state for Home, Gujarat state in this regard. Kachhadia said he first recieved a miss call, and later call from same mobile number 7818903509. A person on other end started speaking bad language targetting him. When Naranbhai clarified that this is Amreli MP Naranbhai’s number, the person on other end didn’t stop and issued threat of murder. This conversation went on for around five minutes starting from 8.52 pm. Later a person switched off his mobile phone. Politics in Amreli is not entirely clean and therefore Naranbhai took this call seriously and filed complaint, and also spoke with the minister of state for Home in Gujarat. Police is investigating the matter.

-A Vadodara based donor has donated one Kg. gold to Ambaji mandir in north Gujarat. Ambaji mandir is undergoing a massive task of converting the shikhar of the mandir into gold. More than half work is over and donation of gold physically and through bank is continuously coming in.

-Finance Minister Saurabh Patel had in his budget for year 2014-15 imposed hike in passenger tax for private travel buses. Accordingly the private luxury bus operators have imposed 10% hike in ticket fares from midnight today. On the other hand the Finance Minister had announced relief in ticket fare of Gujarat govt run state transport buses, however it has not been implemented yet as of now.

-The city of Surat again witnessed an incident of fire in one of its market. The incident took place at Radhakrishna market in Surat. In its primary observation, the local fire brigade believes that the reason of fire was short circuit. Loss is pegged at Rs. 5 crore in this incident.

-A rickshaw carrying 13 students hit rallying of Gora bridge over river Narmada near Rajpipla and jumped into the river. At least 3 children are dead. Local authority used crane to pull out the rickshaw from the river. Those injured are taken to a medical facility in Garudeshwar.