Articles tagged under: Chhota Udepur

Why BJP couldn’t achieve half mark in Chhota Udepur municipal polls? Answer lies in demography

February 18, 2025

Chhota Udepur: Chhota Udepur Municipal polls showed fragmented result today with winning candidated divided in various parties like BJP, Congress, BSP, SP, Sarva Samaj Party, Navin Bharat Nirman Manch and independents. Demography of voters (significant numbers of Muslims) played a major role in BJP not getting half mark of 14 seats here. However Muslim voters choose various non-BJP parties and independents, resulting into fragmented result. While BJP won seats in Hindu majority wards number...Read More

Police complaint likely over release of water from Orsang check dam

January 06, 2025
Police complaint likely over release of water from Orsang check dam

Chhota Udepur: Water crisis threatens Chhota Udepur as the plate of the Orsang check dam was removed, causing thousands of gallons of water to flow into the river. This incident has raised concerns about the town's water supply in the upcoming summer months. The Orsang check dam was constructed at a cost of Rs. 7 crore to ensure a steady water supply for the town, especially during the scorching summers. After the monsoon season, the dam gates are closed with plates to retain water throughout...Read More

Chhota Udepur based Dolomite Mines units decide to shut for a month

January 04, 2025
Chhota Udepur based Dolomite Mines units decide to shut for a month

Chhota Udepur: Dolomite Mines Association of Chhota Udepur has decided to shut the units for entire January 2025 due to no takers of the product. Dolomite is used in ciramic tiles industry of Morbi. However due to anti-dumping duty in several nations and lesser export therefore, over 100 factories in Morbi are shut. Cascading effect of this has affected dolomite mines in Chhota Udepur. With routine costs of royalty, GST, TDS, labour wages and explosives usage, the dolomite units in Chhota Udepur...Read More

Thieves cut woman’s legs to steal anklets in Kawant; elderly couple dead

August 22, 2024
Thieves cut woman’s legs to steal anklets in Kawant; elderly couple dead

Chhota Udepur: An elderly couple was brutally murdered and robbed in Pipalda village of Kawant taluka. The old man was stabbed in the neck with a sharp weapon by the robbers, while the old woman had her legs severed and her anklets stolen. The incident occurred late Wednesday night when Ganjibhai Chimanbhai (70) and his wife Chimtiben were asleep at home. The robbers, intending to loot the couple, attacked them in their sleep. They stabbed Ganjibhai in the back of the neck with a sharp weapon...Read More

Humorist Jagdish Trivedi donates Rs. 10 Lakh to a rural hospital in Bodeli

June 16, 2024
Humorist Jagdish Trivedi donates Rs. 10 Lakh to a rural hospital in Bodeli

Chhota Udepur: Dr. Jagdish Trivedi who has pledged to donate Rs. 11 crore for good causes has donated Rs. 10 lakh recently to a rural hospital run by Dr. Sejalben Patel (Bhakt) at Bodeli in tribal populated Chhota Udepur district. Dr. Trivedi donates money from revenue earned through his humor shows, comedy and jokes programmes.  The latest donation to Bodeli based hospital is made through a comedy programme held at Lowell in the United States of America(USA).The donation amounting to Rs. 10...Read More

Who is Jashubhai Rathwa, BJP Lok Sabha candidate for Chhota Udepur seat?

March 14, 2024
Who is Jashubhai Rathwa, BJP Lok Sabha candidate for Chhota Udepur seat?

Gandhinagar: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday declared 7 Lok Sabha candidates for Gujarat, among which one of new names was Jashubhai Rathwa's. Jashubhai Rathwa started as Sarpanch of Vasedi gram panchayat in Chhota Udepur taluka. He became district BJP chief, Adijati Vikas Corporation's Director and Vice President of Gujarat BJP Schedule Tribe morcha. Rathwa had contested assembly election in 2017 unsuccessfully. He lost this election by 1100 votes. Rathwa had also c...Read More

Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member, former union minister, 5-term ex Lok Sabha MP Naran Rathwa joins BJP

February 27, 2024
Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member, former union minister, 5-term ex Lok Sabha MP Naran Rathwa joins BJP

Vadodara: Congress party's Rajya Sabha member and former union minister Naran Rathwa today joined ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Gujarat. Naran Rathwa along with his son Sangram Rathwa reached BJP headquarters Shri Kamalam today morning and held meeting with Central Gujarat region in-charge of BJP, Gordhan Zadafiya, ahead of their formal joining. They then joined BJP with their supporters in the presence of Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil who offered them saffron cap and scarf. Rathwa's si...Read More

PM Narendrabhai Modi to dedicate Rs. 5206 crore development projects in Chhota Udepur

September 25, 2023
PM Narendrabhai Modi to dedicate Rs. 5206 crore development projects in Chhota Udepur

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi will visit Gujarat on September 27. During his visit, he will inaugurate and dedicate various development projects worth ₹5,206 crore in Chhota Udepur district. Additionally, the Prime Minister will also inaugurate and dedicate development projects worth ₹4,505 crore under the Mission Schools of Excellence, along with development works of Roads and Buildings, Urban Development, Science and Technology, and Water Supply departments. Dev...Read More

PM to launch Rs. 4500 crore school excellence projects at Bodeli in Gujarat

September 22, 2023
PM to launch Rs. 4500 crore school excellence projects at Bodeli in Gujarat

Chhota Udepur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit his home state of Gujarat on September 26-27 during which he is likely to inaugurate projects worth Rs 4,500 crore in the education sector and address a public gathering in tribal town of Bodeli. Giving the details about the event, Vinod Rao, Secretary of Primary and Secondary Education, explained that during this visit, the Prime Minister will inaugurate or lay the foundation for projects valued at Rs 4,500 crore in Bodeli. Th...Read More

PM Modi likely to visit Gujarat on October 2nd

September 20, 2023
PM Modi likely to visit Gujarat on October 2nd

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit his home state of Gujarat on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanti. According to available information, he will be visiting Ahmedabad and Chhota Udepur during this trip. There is no official note on his visit, but the local sources said that in Ahmedabad, the PM Modi is expected to visit the Sabarmati Ashram to pay homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on his birth anniversary, where he will offer flowers at Gandhiji's statue. Fur...Read More