Valsad As always, another development project is going to witness opposition, this time in south Gujarat. A small-time meeting of limited group of coastal villagers of Umargam taluka was held at Maroli on Sunday evening in presence of Maroli gram panchayat sarpanch Rajesh Keni, Nargol based veteran Parsi KK Mistry, Machhi-Mangela community leaders and others to discuss upcoming Nargol port development project. Parsi veteran KK Mistry in his address to this meeting appealed vill...Read More

Gandhinagar Gandhinagar Developer of Nargol Port has been handed over letter of intent and presently the detailed project report(DPR) work is going on. Permissions for coastal railway, environment, forest department, maritime board, construction etc are under progress. Environment clearance process is in its last phase. All these permissions are likely to arrive by July 2015. The works for port will kick off next year. These details were shared by Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama in Guja...Read More

By Anil Pathak, Gandhinagar, 27 February 2013 In a major decision towards development of coastal areas the state maritime board has initiated work on two majaor ports- Nargol near Ummargaon in South Gujarat and Chhara near Kodinar on Saurashtra coast as major green ports. Reliable sources in GMB said that all required formalities for obtaining permissions and other procedures for these two ports are almost completed. A senior official with the state maritime board ...Read More