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  • Suvali villagers oppose Surat Municipal Corporation transfer to shift waste dumping website

    Villagers of Suvali on Friday handed over a memorandum to the Surat district collector opposing the Surat Municipal Corporation’s resolution to shift the stable waste dumping website from Khajod to Suvali.
    The civic physique determined to shift the waste dumping website got here because the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City and Surat Diamond Bourse (SDM) challenge is on the verge of completion at Khajod village and the dumping website is reverse to the DREAM City.
    The villagers, after studying concerning the resolution, referred to as a gathering of residents and sarpanches of neighbouring villages.
    On Friday, Babubhai Ahir, sarpanch of Suvali, together with sarpanches of neighbouring villages, handed over memorandum to District Collector Ayush Oak.
    In the memorandum, the villagers alleged final yr additionally the SMC had additionally deliberate to shift the positioning to their village however the villagers had opposed.

    Again SMC had began actions of placing request to state authorities to get authorities land of fifty hecatres for dumping stable waste and 25 hectares for establishing plant to transform stable waste to urea at Suvali village.”
    The memorandum added, “The land selected by SMC have schools, residential area, and also agricultural land… The main occupation of the people of Suvali village is fishing, agriculture and animal husbandry, and if the dumping site comes up at Suvali village, it would be difficult for survival. With such bad odour, people cannot work in the agricultural fields..”

    Suvali village has a well-known seaside which is being developed by the state authorities.
    Ahir advised The Indian Express, “Our village falls in the seacoast and the state government has planned to develop beach by spending crores of rupees. People from Suvali and nearby villages are opposing the project.”

  • Disturbed Areas Act prolonged to five extra yrs in 8 areas of Surat

    Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Tuesday introduced the extension of interval of Disturbed Areas Act in eight police stations areas in Surat metropolis to 5 extra years.
    The state authorities had carried out the Disturbed Areas Act in Athwa, Salabatpura, Chowk Bazaar, Mahidharpura, Saiyedpura, Lalgate police station areas since October 17, 2017. Rander and Limbayat areas additionally got here beneath the Act since March 14, 2020. The interval of the Act in all eight police station areas ends by July 31.
    Acting on the representations made by BJP MLAs of Surat Purnesh Modi, Sangeeta Patil, Arvind Rana, and from a number of BJP councillors and social leaders, Rupani had took the choice to increase the validity of the Act in these areas.

    The press launch from the state authorities stated that the choice has been taken to scale back the incidents like taking possession of the properties via pressure or strain, by a number of infamous parts in these areas.

  • Not many takers for goats this Bakri Eid in Surat

    The sale of goats for the Bakri Eid proceed to gone down in Surat with the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.
    According to merchants, the enterprise noticed a 20 per cent fall this 12 months as many outstation merchants didn’t come as a result of pandemic.
    Several believers carry out kurbani (slaughtering of goats, buffaloes or sheeps) on the event of Bakri Eid, which falls on Wednesday this 12 months — prompting many goat sellers, even from exterior the state together with Rajasthan and Punjab, to achieve Surat forward of the event.

    Surat metropolis additionally mandi for promoting goats –Sachin Bakra Mandi — which has been operating for a very long time.
    President of Surat Sachin Bakra Mandli Munaf Khambati stated, “Along with small mandlis which comes up ten days before the Bakri Eid, we are the major suppliers of goats in Surat round the year. Last year we sold 20,000 goats during this period, while it dipped further this year as we have only sold 12,000 so far. However, before the pandemic, we used to sell 25,000 to 30,000 goats during the 10 days ahead of Bakri Eid.”
    He added, “The price of goats ranges from Rs 15,000- Rs 32,000. This year, instead of spending money buying goats, people have opted for hissewali kurbani, where the organisation will give them meat after getting the goats slaughtered for cooking.”
    Aasif Malek, a lawyer from Surat, stated, “Prior to the pandemic, we have been doing kurbani of two goats. Last 12 months, we managed to buy one goat and this 12 months we have now given cash for hisse wali kurbani. We can not afford to buy a goat for Rs 15,000, so we paid Rs 5000 in hissewali kurbani.
    A make-shift market has been erected at an open floor at Bharatnagar in Limbayat, the place over 25 merchants who had from Rajasthan are promoting their goats. Earlier such small mandis could possibly be discovered in numerous areas like Chowk Bazaar, Zampa Bazaar, Bhatena forward of Bakri Eid, however this 12 months, solely Limbayat has one.
    Among the merchants is Zakir Sindhi (60), who has been coming to Surat for the final 20 years from Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
    “Before the pandemic, we used to bring a stock of 200 goats to sell in the Surat market, and earned profit of Rs. 3,000- Rs. 4,000 on every goat. But this year, the margin has gone down to Rs 1,000-Rs 1,500 per goat. We have to take care of the transportation costs of the goats, along with their daily food and other expenses… This year we have brought only 100 goats and 20 of them are yet to be sold,” he stated.
    Another goat vendor Jagdish Meena a resident of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, who used to promote goats within the small mandi is now seen standing on the footpath at Chowk Bazaar space along with his kinfolk promoting goats.
    “This year we have not booked space in the mandi. We can’t afford to pay the rent for ten day now. We also compromised on the prices of the goats but 10 goats are still left unsold. Earlier we had made a pucca house at my native place with the money earned from the Surat market after selling goats, but this year we suffered loss,” says Jagdish hoping for enterprise to enhance in 2022.

    Jaleel Shaikh, a Limbayat resident who takes care of the open floor at Bharatnagar, says the variety of merchants coming from exterior has gone down this 12 months.
    “We had a few traders earlier from Punjab, but this year they did not come. Around 22 trucks loaded with 2,100 goats have come from Rajasthan, out of which around 300 goats are still unsold. Last year, at our open ground mandi, we had got stock of around 3,000 goats, with 35 trucks and before the pandemic, at our place goats over 5,000 in numbers were sold. With the drop in sales, we have also reduced the charges taken from traders. We have made all the arrangements including sheds, water facilities and toilet blocks for the traders, who sleep in the same tent. ”

  • Smart City awards: Surat tops record of cities utilizing knowledge for delivering governance

    Surat has emerged on the high amongst Indian cities to have efficiently applied governance via institutionalised use of information — particularly via massive knowledge crunching — in line with an official evaluation launched Friday.
    As many as 42 in an inventory of 100 “smart cities” have been licensed as having put in place techniques to make use of data-based proof for governance supply, below the second spherical of the ‘Data Maturity Assessment Framework’ by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
    Following Gujarat’s Surat, are Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Pune has bagged the fourth spot.
    “Surat is the best performing city… owing to their efforts of deploying a dedicated team of data experts and incorporating various technological advancements, such as establishment of SuratiLab, an advanced innovation lab for uncovering modern solutions for improved service delivery,” stated the report.
    According to the report, the western area is one of the best performing. Its regional common rating of 45 is far larger than the nationwide common of 32. There are 26 cities within the western area, of which 10 cities have been licensed.
    In the second spherical of the evaluation, for 2019-20, it was discovered that 100 metropolis knowledge officers (CDOs) have been appointed with 13 everlasting nominations for main and performing data-led actions.
    A complete of 61 cities have appointed personnel to assist coordinate knowledge actions for his or her respective departments, as per steerage of CDO. Twenty cities have carried out their very own capacity-building classes on knowledge associated areas along with the ministry-organised trainings.

    As many as 69 cities have deployed sensors for knowledge assortment and 63 city areas have printed over 30 datasets on the Smart Cities Open Data Portal.
    The gamut of information assortment and evaluation contains sensors, portals, particular algorithms, massive knowledge centres, amongst others. Fifty cities have showcased higher citizen engagement via alerts and notifications.

    On Friday, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Puri, introduced awards in numerous catagories to cities and states to have a good time sixth anniversary of the launch of PMAY-U, AMRUT and Smart Cities Mission.
    The Centre additionally unveiled the ‘Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework’ (CSCAF) 2 awards, which had been launched in September, 2020 to evaluate what “climate actions” are being taken by sensible cities. The framework consists of 28 indicators of 96 knowledge factors. The high 9 cities which were awarded with four-star scores are Surat, Indore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Vijayawada, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Vadodara.

  • After shedding dad and mom to Covid, Surat siblings now fend for themselves

    When the second wave of Covid-19 hit within the nation, Smit Narola, 17, and his elder sister Madhavi – like many different kids throughout the nation – misplaced their dad and mom to the an infection. That too inside a niche of two weeks.
    Nareshbhai Narola (44) and his spouse Rekha (42) died of Covid-19 on April 29 and April 14 respectively, leaving each Smit and Madhavi orphaned.
    The two kids residing in Surat’s Yogi Chowk, dominated by migrants from Saurashtra, are actually left to fend for themselves.

    Madhvi is doing her Bachelors in Computer Management from S V Patel College in Surat, whereas Smit had cleared his Class 11 from Neel Madhav college at Yogi chowk and is now in Class 12.
    Originally from Khakhariya village in Palitana of Bhavnagar, Smit mentioned, “Now I have to take care of my elder sister. My father was working in an embroidery factory at Varachha. My sister had started taking tuitions for children of our neighbours. I have started selling toys and home ware items through e-commerce. Parents of my classmates helped me start this business… What I have learnt is not to break down, my sister motivates me and supports me.”
    Prince Ranipa, 19, had accomplished his first 12 months of BBA and his 16-year outdated sister Misri had completed Class 10 boards when their mom Shilpa died of Covid on May 8 within the Surat Civil hospital. The siblings had already misplaced their father Jitendra Kumar who was employed in Surat, to a street accident in 2008. Shilpa had then began embellishment work on sarees and gown supplies.
    With her demise, Prince has began distributing newspapers within the morning and works in a store to fend for his sister and grandmother Savitaben.
    Prince, who’s enrolled with Maliba faculty, instructed The Indian Express, “I am worried about what I should do to continue my studies. At present we are surviving with the savings and money which we have borrowed from relatives. We are staying in a rented one-room kitchen house. We have told the owner to give us relaxations for a few months…”
    He has utilized for jobs at personal companies and is ready for his or her response.
    The Shree Saurashtra Patel Seva Samaj a voluntary organisation in Surat, has prolonged monetary assist to some 150 kids, like Prince and Misri, who misplaced dad and mom or breadwinners to Covid.

    Shree Saurashtra Patel Sewa Samaj president Kanji Bhalara mentioned, “The financial help was provided by some of the trustees, Lions club of Coppell in USA for those who had lost their parents to Covid-19. We have got applications from 1,000 widows who had lost their family members due to the infection in Surat… The beneficiaries were given cheques”.

  • Four youths drown in Narmada river in Bharuch

    Four youths drowned in Narmada river at Kabirvad, a vacationer spot in Bharuch district, on June 10. The our bodies of three of them had been fished out June 10 night time whereas the fourth particular person’s physique was recovered on Friday morning.
    The 4 deceased had been recognized as Devram Bhairam Jat (21), Ganeshram Bhairam Jat (22), Bastiram Durgaram Jat (23), Nemaram Chanduram Jat (22), all residents of Bholav village in Bharuch and natives of Nagaur district in Rajasthan.
    According to police eight individuals from Rajasthan, who had been doing the furnishings work of an under-construction resort at Bholav village in Bharuch, had gone to Kabirwad to spend their vacation.
    While they had been swimming within the Narmada river, water stage rose as a result of discharge from Sardar Sarovar Dam and excessive tide within the sea.

    Nabipur police station A Ok Jadeja mentioned, “Four youths swam and reached the banks while four others drowned. We have intimated family members of the deceased and they are on their way to collect the bodies.”
    Bodies of two deceased had been fished out with the assistance of native divers and hearth brigade recovered the physique of one other employee later within the night time and the fourth particular person on Friday morning.

  • Surat: Three-fold spike in Covid instances amongst children in second wave

    MORE CHILDREN beneath 10 years in Surat metropolis are contaminated by the novel coronavirus illness within the second wave of the pandemic in comparison with the primary, based on the information shared by Surat civic authorities.
    More than 560 youngsters, all as much as 10 years, examined constructive for the virus within the first wave of Covid-19, whereas the instances elevated practically three-fold with round 1,700 youngsters being affected in the course of the second wave. However, no fatality was reported among the many age group.
    The information comes amid apprehensions that youngsters could be severely contaminated in the course of the third Covid-19 wave. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, nevertheless, lately said that the fears weren’t based mostly on information.
    According to the information shared by Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) well being division, between April and December 2020, the primary wave of Covid-19, a complete of 564 instances amongst minors as much as 10 years had been reported in Surat metropolis. Among them, the bottom, as much as 15 instances, had been recorded in May 2020 whereas the best quantity
    of 138 instances was recorded in October. In August 2020, as many as 128 instances had been recorded amongst youngsters within the age group.
    SMC commissioner B N Pani mentioned, “This year, the Covid-19 cases among minors are high compared to last year. These minors (up to 10 years), who were infected, were asymptomatic and have recovered. Several of these children were detected during our test drives conducted through Dhanvantri Raths and other testing centres, and also by private paediatricians and family doctors.”
    In the second wave of the pandemic, between January 2021 and May 20, as many as 1,696 instances had been recorded among the many identical age group in Surat metropolis. The most variety of 1,185 instances had been recorded in April alone, adopted by 274 instances in March. In February, 5 instances had been recorded.
    SMC deputy well being commissioner Dr Ashish Naik mentioned, “In both the first and second waves, no fatality among minors were reported in Surat city.”
    In each the primary and second phases, the best variety of instances was recorded from the company’s South-West zone (Athwalines) the place in 2020, a complete of 118 instances had been recorded, whereas up to now 5 months (the second wave), 500 instances had been recorded from this a part of town. Athwalines space is among the many posh areas within the metropolis with all the mandatory infrastructure and well being amenities.
    The SMC has already began making ready for the third wave and has carried out conferences with docs from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and paediatricians within the metropolis. Pani mentioned, “We have planned to create separate wards at the New Civil Hospital (NCH) and SMIMER Hospitals which will be well-equipped. We have procured around 100 oxygen concentrators.” He added that paediatricians have been suggested to stay well-equipped.
    The SMC, he added, was additionally planning to introduce a chapter on Covid-19 in class syllabi. “We have prepared a chapter in which students will be given information on Covid-19, the difference between virus and bacteria, RNA and DNA viruses, communicable and non-communicable diseases, how the infection happens, ways to prevent it and how long it will remain in the body, why a mask is important during Covid and also non-Covid period, on the importance of vaccination among other things. Through this, we want to develop Covid-appropriate behaviour among the younger generation. The contents of this chapter have been prepared by the SMC health department officials and in the coming days we will distribute among private and municipal schools in the city as well,” Pani mentioned.
    Dr Ketan Bharadva, a paediatrician, mentioned, “We have come across several minors who got infected and were asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. We treated them accordingly and got better results. In some cases, we also found Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome of Children (MIS-C), which can affect the heart and lead to a brain stroke. Such patients were also successfully treated. In most such cases, the children got the infection from their parents. We have made arrangements to deal with more Covid patients, especially minors, during the third phase.”

  • Mucormycosis: 21 surgical procedures carried out in SSG in a day

    Written by Aditi Raja
    , Sohini Ghosh
    , Kamaal Saiyed | Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara |
    May 21, 2021 3:41:41 am
    SSG Hospital in Vadodara carried out 21 surgical procedures on mucormycosis sufferers on Thursday — highest single-day procedures carried out on such sufferers in current instances in any metropolis hospital within the state.
    In 48 hours till 8 pm Thursday, SSG hospital noticed 15 transnasal endoscopic partial maxillectomy (removing of maxillary sinuses positioned under the cheek), 22 procedures of native debridements (cleansing up of the rhino-celebral passage surgically) and 4 orbital exenterations (removing of the contaminated eyeball).
    On a mean, the hospital sees near 12 indoor admissions for the invasive fungal an infection of mucormycosis each day — a majority of sufferers being from different districts. Medical Superintendent of SSG hospital, Dr Ranjan Aiyer, who can be the Head of Department of ENT, mentioned, “Other than the actual surgical procedures that involve the extraction of affected parts, there are also certain surgical procedures that are diagnostic in nature. For instance, almost every patient needs a nasal endoscopy, which allows us to ascertain the damage that has been caused and pinpoint the scale of the surgical procedure that will be involved. The second step is a KOH (potassium hydroxide) exam of a part of the lesion extracted and the third step is the tissue biopsy. Almost all patients admitted have undergone these procedures, but only those who have tested negative for Covid-19 can be taken up by the surgical teams for debridements and extractions,” Aiyer mentioned.
    Aiyer added that the Vadodara administration is contemplating making a separate facility within the metropolis, the place the sufferers who’ve already undergone surgical procedure might be despatched for the administration of the injection — Amphotericin-B — and proceed to be monitored by their doctor for security profiling of their blood sugar ranges. “This will take the load off from the main hospital as patients from other districts, who have to stay back for the drug administration can be shifted to the facility and only critical surgical cases can be admitted in the main wards,” Aiyer mentioned.
    SSG hospital in Vadodara has a complete of 154 sufferers admitted to the 2 mucormycosis wards. Of these 33 are Covid19 constructive and 23 RTPCR stories are nonetheless awaited, the hospital mentioned. The hospital, on Thursday, additionally started admitting sufferers in a 3rd ward created to deal with the an infection. The hospital has to date seen 12 mortalities and 5 recoveries, Aiyer mentioned.
    Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS)-run Gotri hospital has a further 35 sufferers admitted. The well being division is but to establish the whole variety of sufferers affected by mucormycosis within the metropolis as a number of sufferers have sought therapy at personal hospitals, officers mentioned. The metropolis has additionally seen a number of mortalities resulting from mucormycosis, particularly in sufferers who remained Covid-19 constructive and couldn’t be operated upon, officers mentioned.
    However, the non-availability of the Liposomal type of Amphotericin-B — the anti-fungal drug that’s identified to deal with mucormycosis — in personal hospitals are drawing sufferers to authorities amenities.
    Aiyer mentioned, “…We receive a lot of patients from other districts because they have realised that the drugs would be made available to the government hospitals first…”
    Aiyer mentioned that since 1992, SSG hospital had seen solely about 20 circumstances of mucormycosis. “With Covid-19 now… the number of cases in the current wave has surpassed lifetime figures of such patients. The steroids may have helped in Covid19 but immunity and glycemic levels of the patients were compromised,” Aiyer mentioned.

    Aiyer mentioned that every affected person present process therapy for mucormycosis wants near seven vials of Amphotericin-B each day.
    In Rajkot, Dr R S Tivedi, superintendent at PDU Hospital, mentioned the hospital is conducting eight to 10 surgical procedures on mucormycosis sufferers every day. The hospital has elevated its mattress capability for mucormycosis sufferers to 500, with 430 sufferers admitted at current. According to an Ahmedabad Civil Hospital supply, there are 371 mucormycosis sufferers admitted on the hospital with a complete of 156 surgical procedures performed until date.

    In Surat, Dr Bhavin Patel, head of ENT division at Kiran hospital, confirmed {that a} whole of 70 surgical procedures have been carried out to date with a every day common of eight. The hospital has a pending record of 75 sufferers awaiting surgical procedure. At Surat’s New Civil Hospital, a complete of 27 surgical procedures have been performed with a every day common of seven, whereas SMIMER hospital has seen 12 surgical procedures at a charge of two per day to date.

  • Surat textile buying and selling outlets to stay shut until May 17: FOSTTA

    The textile buying and selling outlets in Surat will proceed to stay shut between May 13 and 17, the Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association stated Wednesday.
    A delegation of FOSTTA, led by president Manoj Agrawal, basic secretary Champalal Bothra, and treasurer Rajesh Agrawal, met Surat Municipal Commissioner B N Pani and Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Tomar to resolve a choice whether or not to permit outlets to reopen from Thursday.
    “We urged Surat Police Commissioner to allow us to keep the textile trading market to open for three hours in the morning. He has asked us to wait till May 17. So, we have informed traders that the shutdown will continue till May 17,” the treasurer stated.

  • Gujarat: POCSO court docket awards 20-year jail to 18-year-old for ‘raping’ minor lady

    A particular POCSO court docket in Surat on Wednesday convicted an 18-year-old man of raping a 14-year-old lady and sentenced him to twenty years strict imprisonment.
    According to police, the lady went lacking on June 5, 2020, after she went to a store to buy some home goods. Her household looked for her and located that she was chatting with a youth from the identical space on cellphone. The lady’s father reached the youth’s home and located him additionally lacking, after which he lodged a police criticism.
    Police stated the accused took the lady from Surat to his native place in Bhavnagar — 390 kilometres away — in a items tempo automobile and stayed at his sister’s place. A crew of Surat police reached there on June 7 and introduced the youth and the lady again.

    After medical examination, it was discovered that the lady was raped on June 6, 2020. The police have arrested the accused underneath Indian Penal Code sections 363, 366, 376 (1), 376 (2)(n) and 376 (3) in addition to Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act 4, 5 (l), 6.
    The lady was handed over to her mother and father, whereas the accused was despatched to judicial custody.
    Police have submitted a chargesheet within the case with medical proof and statements of the accused and the sufferer.
    Special POCSO court docket Judge PS Kala on Wednesday convicted the 18-year-old for kidnap and rape, and ordered him to pay Rs 7 lakh to the lady.

    The decide, whereas passing the order, talked about that “the incident will leave an impact on the remaining life of the minor girl… The offence of rape not only affects the body but also the soul”.
    Assistant Public Prosecutor KV Revaliya stated, “We are happy with the court order, which will help prevent people commit such offences in future.”