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Academicians converge at PDPU conference

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:16:18 +0000

Educationists, college teachers, principals, deans and vice-chancellors, from various universities across the world gathered at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University campus in Gandhinagar on Thursday. They were participating in a two-day international conference on ‘Themes Of Higher Education: Prospects Of Gujarat.’

In a keynote address, Professor Vivienne Baumfield from University of Glasgow, UK, stressed on the need for international education rather than global education. In her opinion, it builds long-lasting relationships and mutual understanding. “Gujarat is the growth engine of India. This state has taken the initiative in many sectors including education,” she said. At the conference, chief minister Narendra Modi promised that the findings of the conference will be implemented to make government policies more relevant to the people. Modi added that the Indian culture has faced many challenges and tribulations for several millenniums. “It is about time we overhauled our education system and syllabus, befitting the changing times,” he said.

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Vanche Gujarat: 50 lakh students to read books together on Oct 30

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:30:57 +0000

Tomorrow under the ‘Vanche Gujarat’ campaign on October 30, about 50 lakh students from across the state of Gujarat will read books together for one hour, between 9 am and 10 am.

The programme mainly targets inculcating the reading habit among people of Gujarat, especially children.

Outlining the essence of ‘Vanche Gujarat’ mission, Chief Minister said that at the time when our lives have become robotic, books are the way out from this unfortunate situation. Our social structure has been immerged from the ‘granths’ like Ramayan and Mahabharat. From Upanishads till now, all the ages have worshiped the power of knowledge. Unfortunately today, ‘Information’ is taking the place of ‘Knowledge’. In the time of information overload only knowledge can lead us to light, he said.

On the powers of reading he said that reading does not just provide knowledge, it inspires the intellectuality to evoke and ultimately it leads to the growth.

After making record 20,000 players compete at chess in December 2010, this is another national record, organizers say they are more concerned with the motive and final outcome of the event, rather than emphasizing on creating a record.

We hope that Government has good motive for this Vanche Gujarat instead of creating record .

http://www.vanchegujarat.in
http://www.gujaratindia.com
http:// www.swarnimgujarat.org
http://www.gujarat-education.gov.in

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10,000 assistant teacher recruitment completed in Gujarat

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:50:16 +0000

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The Gujarat government Saturday issued appointment letters to about 10,000 vidhyasahayaks (assistant teachers) recruited through an online process. Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad and other ministers in the various district headquarters handed over appointment letters to the teachers.

About 5,000 assistant teachers have been recruited for maths and science subjects and another 5,000 for English language.

It is for the first time that the education department carried out a centralized online recruitment process and completed the selection within a month.

Addressing the newly-recruited teachers through a satellite network, the chief minister appealed to them to be innovative in teaching.

“Lay stress on the spread of computer literacy and encourage sports, especially chess,” he said.

did you got selected or not ? How was online process. Post your feedback below.

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Japan delegation meets Modi, plans Rs 5000-crore eco-township in Dahej,Gujarat

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:13:52 +0000

A high-level delegation from Japan called on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and made a proposal to set up a Rs 5,000-crore eco-township at Dahej.

The nine-member delegation, led by Chairman of Japan Development Institute Dr Shoichi Kobayashi, has proposed to set up an eco township modeled on Kitakyushu township in Japan in Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) area here and another township GRMAZ at Dahej, said a government release.

Planned on a 500-acre land, the proposal, put up before Modi on Wednesday, includes a dozen-odd satellite eco-towns across Gujarat — each on 10 to 15 acres in polluting industrial areas of Ahmedabad, Surat, Vapi, Panoli, Jamnagar, Kutch and Alang. The Japanese government has offered to turn Alang into an eco-friendly destination. To be jointly developed with Gujarat Environment Protection and Infrastructure Ltd (GEPIL), a private company promoted by Luthra group, the proposal aims at recycling and recovering 90 per cent of the industrial waste and reuse it as raw material. Details of the Japanese funding are being finalised.

The delegation members stressed that Japan is keen to make investment in the state, which is industrializing rapidly, it said.

The members also discussed various sectors like ship building, ship recycling, wind energy and fisheries with the Chief Minister and senior government officials.

The Gujarat government officials made presentations about the initiatives taken by the state government in various fields like industry, energy, environment and climate change in the state.

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Modi invites Maruti to set up plant in Gujarat

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:57:02 +0000

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invited Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) to set up a car manufacturing facility in Gujarat. Modi, after inaugurating the AGIDTR set up by the state government and MSIL here, said he wanted to give a business advice to Maruti.

“Gujarat has General Motors and Nano, why not Maruti?” Modi said, pointing out that MSIL manufactures cars at Haryana which are then brought to Gujarat’s Mundra port for exports. “Would any Gujarati make such a mistake? They (cars) should be manufactured and exported from here.”

He added that with the construction of Mumbai-Delhi Industrial Corridor with active participation of Japan and arrival of a number of Japanese companies with a view to invest in Gujarat, MSIL should also establish their car unit in Gujarat.

MSIL’s managing director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi on his part said that MSIL is expecting export business to further grow this year. “Last year, we had exported 70,000 units whereas this year we hope to exceed one lakh units,” said Nakanishi.

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Petro university inks deal with US institute

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:30:53 +0000

A centre for excellence in energy will be set up by Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University(PDPU) in association with Georgia Institute of Technology (Gatech), Atlanta from the US.

On Saturday, PDPU, Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) signed an MoU with Gatech for establishing the centre on the campus and carrying out faculty and student exchange programmes with the university.

Gatech is a technical university and has done research work in the areas of solar, nuclear, electricals and transportation.

PDPU is supported by GSPC to promote research with special focus on the oil and gas, solar and nuclear energy. Officials from Gatech visited the university and also met Chief Minister Narendra Modi to discuss their interest in research in oil and gas, solar, nuclear and wind power.

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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tested positive for swine flu

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:10:59 +0000

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was on Friday tested positive for swine flu.

Doctors at the government hospital in Ahmedabad informed that Modi had been administered a dose of Tamiflu.

In India, 463 people have died due to the Influenza A (H1N1) virus. When reports last came in, taking the number of people affected with the flu in the country stood at 13,722.

More details are awaited.

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Gujarat better than Bengal: Biz bosses

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:01:48 +0000

Like him or hate him, the industrial climate in Narendra Modi‘s Gujarat is much better than that in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Bengal. This observation comes from none other than two business houses with strong Bengal links – Universal Success Enterprises Ltd (USEL) and Keventer Agro. Land acquisition in Gujarat takes between one and three months, something unthinkable in Bengal.

NRI businessman Prasoon Mukherjee’s USEL and M K Jalan’s Keventer Agro have already signed MoUs with the Gujarat government during the recent Global Investors Summit in Gujarat.

Like Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, Mukherjee and Jalan have excellent experience about Modiland. USEL has proposed to invest Rs 87,000 crore in Modi’s state, the highest investment in the current fiscal. Mukherjee, chairman of USEL, said the Gujarat government has assured him to hand over the land with all the approvals within three months. It has asked for 11,000 acres for a multiproduct SEZ, power unit and ports.

Incidentally, USEL is investing Rs 30,000 crore on an SEZ, Rs 50,000 crore for a power plant and Rs 7,000 crore for setting up two ports. The Gujarat government has already identified land in a coastal location , as desired by USEL.

“The unique thing about Gujarat is that they have created a huge land bank, which is really commendable,” said Mukherjee. “So, for most projects , the state government can offer land immediately. Even for mega projects like USEL, the Gujarat government already has a major chunk of land. We are confident of getting it in time.”

Mukherjee also had words of praise for Modi’s honesty. “I should say there is a similarity between Gujarat and Bengal. The Gujarat administration is also clean, like that of Bengal. We did not have to pay a single rupee under the table there, like in Bengal,” he added.

Jalan’s Keventer Agro has got land within 30 days after it formally submitted the proposal . By the time it signed the MOU in the summit, the group had possession of the land. “We shall now start the boundary wall. Our land is near the Nano factory at Sanand,” said Jalan. “This is something unbelievable in Bengal. It takes at least 6 to 7 months for the conversion of the character of land from agricultural to industrial . Here, it comes along with the land.”

Keventer has got 30 acres for its proposed Rs 115-crore food processing venture. Jalan is so overwhelmed by the experience that he is planning more investments in Gujarat. “Keventer wants to be a part of Gujarat’s agro vision. They are talking about dedicated ports for agro and food processing , which is a superb concept ,” he said.

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