Tokyo/Ahmedabad, 1 September 2014 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on an official visit to Japan from 30 August - 3 September 2014. He held the Annual Summit meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today. The two Prime Ministers issued a Joint Statement thereafter. They instructed respective relevant authorities to further enhance cooperation in the following cooperation programmes and projects(Gujarat related parts are underlined). Factsheet: India and Japan ...Read More

New Delhi, 25 July 2014 Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Lok Sabha today shared the details on various consultants appointed for undertaking various project development related activities for Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) Project. Minister's answer mentioned Ahmedabad-Dholera Investment Region in Gujarat for which Consortium led by M/s. Halcrow, UK has been appointe...Read More

By our correspondent, Gandhinagar, 17 October 2013 Japan-Gujarat relations are seeing the best time at present. Ambassador of Japan to India Mr. Takeshi Yagi in his speech today said Gujarat will be a new Japanese manufacturing hub in India. "We had two important conferences in Gujarat this February - one on High Speed Railway and the other on Urban Traffic Development. On the High Speed Railway, the two governments agreed in the month of May that we would co-fi...Read More

New Delhi, 12 September 2013 DMIC Trust in its meeting held this week had approved nine projects with an investment of Rs. 1,20,000 crores from Central, State Governments and the private sectors. The meeting was chaired by Secretary, DEA Mr. Arvind Mayaram; Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Mr. Saurabh Chandra, CEO & MD, DMICDC, Mr. Amitabh Kant and Joint Secretary, Expenditure, Mr. Saurabh Garg. These projects will drive the growth of manufacturing a...Read More

By Somindu.S. Ahmedabad, 16 June 2013 Special Investment Region (SIR) act was passed by Gujarat Government in 2009, but thanks to five star NGOs, SIR is lately in news for the different reasons. The NGOs are reportedly instigating farmers in Mandal-Becharaji Area which is notified as Mandal-Becharaji SIR (MBSIR). Who are those NGOs and what could be their intentions is dissected in detail by DeshGujarat (read it here). If you think all NGOs work for noble cause, I als...Read More

Ahmedabad, 16 May 2013 Construction work on Dholera city should be able to start within the next 6 month, said Amitabh Kant, CEO and MD of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation(DMICDC) to Financial Express(FE). Kant further told FE that town planning for two of the total six phases(152 sq km of 540 sq km developable city) of Rs 70,000 crore Dholera city has been done, while the other four are to be done over the rest of the year. 105 sq km land for...Read More

Ahmedabad, 16 March 2013 It's like this: We are leftists, we get foreign fund, we are sympathetic to naxals and red-corridor, but we oppose rail corridor! We would oppose every development project in the name of marginal people! And who else but, NGO operator Medha Patkar is again in the field against another development project which is Delhi-Mumbai Corridor! While it is business as usual for her, this time we are taking note of her, because she is in Gujarat! As we hav...Read More

New Delhi, 21 January 2013 The Minister of Railways, Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal reviewed the implementation of Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) projects in India being implemented by Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL), the fully owned Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Ministry of Railways specially constituted for the purpose. Shri R K Gupta Managing Director DFCCIL made a detailed presentation. The Minister of Railways alongwith Chairman, Railway Board...Read More

Gandhinagar, 11 January 2013 He is a central government official, but he spoke from his heart at the inaugural function of the Vibrant Gujarat summit 2013. He admired Gujarat, he admired the Chief Minister and said that in the coming years, there will be a completely new Gujarat. He said a new Singapore will be created in the heart of Gujarat. He is Amitabh Kant, CEO of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). And here is what he said, extremely important in connection with ...Read More

By Somindu.S.Ahmedabad, 22 November 2012 As I was witnessing and occasionally tweeting on Modi's successful trip to Japan, it was very unfortunate to find people back home who do not have any idea of the significance were behaving like frog in a well. If so called main stream media was busy focusing only on Manesar and Modi, the local Bapus to Kakas of Gujarat were ridiculing his trip. Some of the leader even questioning the invitation and raising big question over the...Read More