ગાંધીનગરઃ રાજ્યની વીજ જરૂરિયાતમાં નોંધપાત્ર વધારો થઇ રહ્યો છે જે છેલ્લા ૫ વર્ષો દરમિયાન ૬% થી વધુના વાર્ષિક દરે (CAGR) વધી રહ્યો છે. રાજ્યમાં વર્ષ ૨૦૨૩-૨૪ દરમિયાન ૨૪૫૪૪ મેગાવોટની મહત્તમ વીજ માં�...Read More

Surat: Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) has, for the first time, started supplying lignite to 400 textile mills during the monsoon season. GMDC's lignite mines used to remain shut during the monsoon, which typically led the mills to import lignite from abroad, mainly from Indonesia. Local importers would charge two to three times the price for such lignite. Jitendar Vakhariya, President of the South Gujarat Textile Processors' Association, had made representations to the Chie...Read More

Morbi: The Morbi Chamber of Commerce in a letter to the chief minister has raised the issue of inadequate supply of lignite to small and medium industries of Morbi and threatened to launch a movement protesting GMDC’s unfair trade practice if the problem doesn’t get resolved within 15 days. The industry body says in the letter that factories are having to stagger their production activity because of insufficient quantity of lignite, which adversely impacts the wages of laborers. The in...Read More

Bhavanagar: Police today arrested around 50 people and resort to tear gas lobbing and baton charge at a coal mining site in and around Badi village under Ghogha taluka of Bhavnagar district. SP P L Mal said that the land under which there was lignite coal reserve in ample amount was acquired by the state government long back for supply of coal to its thermal plants. Around 2500 to 3000 people assembled near the mining site of Gujarat Power Corporation Ltd (GPCL) opposing it. ...Read More