AMC plans to develop the area around the barrage as a special recreation zone
Most Amdavadis would be surprised to learn that the area near the Vasna barrage is going to be one of the best places for recreation in western Ahmedabad. Currently, the locality evokes disgust because of its algae-covered stinking water. But all this [...]
Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) is focusing on developing towns in the vicinity of Ahmedabad as growth centers. The development authority will create basic infrastructural facilities in these five towns at a cost of around Rs 15 crore.
“We want to develop Dehgam, Mahemdabad, Sanand, Kalol and Bareja as growth centres,” said AUDA chairman Dharmendra Shah. [...]
Some good news for wannabe doctors in the state. State government has proposed an increase of 255 seats for postgraduate medical courses in three medical colleges in the state.
To replenish an exhausted corpus, to meet payment of sixth pay commission arrears and to make its the flagship programme self-sustaining, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has increased the fee for its Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management consecutively for the third year. From Rs 5 lakh for the two-year residential course of [...]
Soon after blogging in support of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is being hounded by the Congress, chief minister Narendra Modi moved quickly to firm up plans of projecting Big B as Gujarat’s brand ambassador. Modi met top advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather’s (O&M’s) India chief Piyush Pandey on Monday in Gandhinagar to expedite the project. [...]
The proposed international airport at Federa could well be the biggest in India. The state government has earmarked a massive 7,500 hectares of land, mostly wasteland, for the new airport at Navagam village near Dholera special investment region (SIR). The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already cleared the site last month.
There are hardly any ‘Ranchos’ — the popular character played by Aamir Khan in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’ — in engineering colleges who would innovate with technology and take it beyond the course structure. This lack of innovation and product development in the industry has prompted the apex design school in the country to [...]
Outsourcing seems to be the new mantra for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Call it an effort to get better results, or neglecting its own parks and garden department by giving work of landscaping to a private contractor.
The city of diamonds and textiles is set to add yet another feather in its cap by 2011. ABG Shipyard Limited, country’s largest private shipbuilder with its facility at Magdalla, is setting up Gujarat’s first state-of-the-art maritime institute on a sprawling 12 hectare land at Ichhapore.
Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) has decided to make random check of its drivers and conductors to prevent them from running buses under the influence of liquor. The vigilance squads of GSRTC have been given breath analyser machines to keep drivers or conductors under check.