Gandhinagar: Gujarat ranks 3rd in terms of power supplied for the year 2023-24, as well as from April to June of this year, just behind Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, which ranked 1st and 2nd respectively. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh are much larger and more populated States. Power supply to Gujarat was 1,45,740 million units  during the financial year 2023-24, against a requirement of 1,45,768 million units. From April to June this year, Gujarat was supplied 41,942 million units of power,...Read More

New Delhi: The state of Gujarat has been a frontrunner in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure over the past few years. In FY 2022-23, Gujarat ranked second among all the states with a substantial CSR expenditure of ₹2,008.42 crores. The neighboring state, Maharashtra, topped the list with CSR expenditure of ₹5,497.32 crores during the same period. It is noteworthy that for the past three financial years—2022-23, 2021-22, and 2020-21—the state of Gujarat has been...Read More

New Delhi: The financial assistance in form of loans and grants by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) to the Cooperative Societies and Federations across Gujarat has witnessed a sharp jump of around 1470% in the last two years. The financial assistance provided by NCDC to the Cooperative Societies/Federations went up from Rs 37.40 crore in 2021-22 to Rs 586.99 crore in 2023-24. There are total of 82,143 registered Cooperative societies in Gujarat as per the data available under ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Parshottam Rupala, Mansukh Mandaviya, Naran Rathwa, and Dr. Amee Yagnik are now former Rajya Sabha members. They retired on 2nd April 2024 after a six-year term in the upper house of parliament. Of them,  Rupala and Mandaviya are union cabinet ministers. However, they can remain ministers without being members of parliament. As per the rules, any person can become a minister without being elected as a member of the house for 6 months period. Both Rupala and Mandaviya are contest...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s national president J P Nadda and three other candidates of the party are declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat today. The three others candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha are Surat based Saurashtra origin diamond baron Govindbhai Dholakia, BJP leader from the Central Gujarat Jasvantsinh Parmar and North Gujarat based BJP Gujarat Other Backward Class(OBC) Morcha chief Mayank Nayak. They are declared elected uno...Read More

Gandhinagar: All four candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Rajya Sabha election filed their nominations today here. Today is the last day of filing nominations. None of opposition parties is going to file nomination due to lack of strength. Four BJP candidates JP Nadda, Govindbhai Dholakia, Jashvantsinh Parmar and Mayank Nayak are therefore going to be declared winner unopposed. The nomination filing took place at Vijay Mahurat of 12.39 pm in presence of Gujarat Chief Minister and Guja...Read More

Gandhinagar: Speaking at SVPI Airport today, Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil said, that with JP Nadda going to Rajya Sabha from the State, Gujarat gets another new leadership. Patil thanked Prime Minister Modi for giving good leadership to Gujarat BJP. 'With BJP national president JP Nadda, Gujarat gets further new leadership, excitement of which is visible on your faces,' Patil said addressing party workers who gathered at SVPI airport to welcome Nadda who was here to file nomination as a candida...Read More

Gandhinagar: Come June 2026, the main opposition Congress party will not have any Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat. There are three Rajya Sabha members of Congress from Gujarat at present. They were elected due to the strength of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the previous term of the State assembly(2017-2022). Post 2022 election, the Congress has so less  MLAs in the State assembly, that it can not elect any member to the Rajya Sabha. Two of the Rajya Sabha MPs of Cong...Read More

New Delhi: Number of Gram Panchayats connected under BharatNet has increased from 58 in May 2014 to 2.10 lakh as of December 2023. Recently, the Government has amended the BharatNet Program to cover all the inhabited villages at an outlay of Rs 1.88 lakh crore. The information was provided by Minister of State for Communications Shri Devusinh Chauhan in Rajya Sabha on February 9, 2024 while replying to a query raised by RS MP Shri Parimal Nathwani.  Minister’s statement pointed out that 5G...Read More

New Delhi: The largest city in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, has direct air connectivity with 36 destinations in the country, a more than fourfold increase from the connectivity since 2014. Meanwhile, the city also has direct air connections with 5 international cities. This information was provided by the Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Gen. (Retd.) V K Singh, in the Rajya Sabha during the ongoing session of Parliament. As per the Winter Schedule 2023 effective from 29th Oct 2023 till 30th Mar 2...Read More