Lakshmi Mittal, chairman of ArcelorMittal, accompanied by the corporate’s CEO Dilip Oommen, paid a go to to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, mentioned a launch from the Chief Minister’s Office on Friday. During the go to, the discharge added, Mittal expressed his eagerness to speculate Rs 1 lakh crore in Gujarat.
Mittal expressed dedication of funding of Rs 50,000 crore for the growth of his unit close to Hazira in Surat whereas additionally expressing intention of investing Rs 50,000 crore in photo voltaic vitality, wind vitality, and hydrogen gasoline manufacturing sectors, it mentioned.
“Giving positive response, the CM has invited them for investment in Gujarat and assured necessary help,” the discharge added.
Additional Chief Secretary to the CM, M Okay Das, was additionally current.
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ArcelorMittal planning to speculate Rs 1L cr in Gujarat
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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.
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Anti-national, ban Amnesty, damaging ambiance: How BJP CMs, previous and current, responded to expenses
Several BJP Chief Ministers Tuesday defended the federal government within the wake of the Pegasus scandal, and focused the Congress for stalling the home. A have a look at what some stated:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Adityanath stated opposition events had been making a “negative” ambiance and stalling the Parliament proceedings over the Pegasus controversy. He additionally demanded that they apologise.
He stated the the Opposition’s “negative attitude” didn’t enable points on the frequent folks to be raised in Parliament.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
Criticising the Opposition Congress for “unnecessarily” creating an issue over the Pegasus adware earlier than the beginning of the Monsoon Session, Rupani stated the get together has an “anti-national mindset”. A launch from the chief minister’s workplace quoted Rupani as saying, “By becoming an instrument in the hands of foreign forces, Congress is damaging the reputation of the country.”
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
The BJP-led authorities, which helmed the state from 2014 to 2019, by no means availed the providers of NSO Group — the Israeli agency behind the adware Pegasus — for phone-tapping, chief of the Opposition within the state legislative meeting Fadnavis stated on Tuesday.
Terming allegations made by the Congress and the NCP as baseless, Fadnavis stated, “During my tenure as Chief Minister of Maharashtra, we had never availed the services of NSO.”
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
Sarma demanded a ban on human rights group Amnesty International’s actions in India for its position within the Pegasus controversy. The BJP chief additionally claimed that the complete controversy was an “worldwide conspiracy by the Left-wing organisations, together with Amnesty International, “to defame the Centre. -
Gujarat first state to supply uniforms for anganwadi children
The Gujarat authorities has determined to supply uniforms to 14 lakh Anganwadi college students, making it the primary state to take such a choice.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Tuesday initiated a state-wide pre-school uniform distribution programme for college kids of 53,029 anganwadis within the state.
However, with new directions issued by the state authorities to maintain the anganwadis closed till July 13, the native our bodies have deferred the distribution of pre-school uniforms to the opposite college students that have been to be held following the symbolic occasion held in Gandhinagar by Rupani.
While talking on the occasion, Rupani expressed confidence that the state will quickly tide over the pandemic to have the ability to reopen faculties and anganwadis. Rupani stated that the federal government has determined to distribute uniforms to over 14 lakh anganwadi youngsters to instil a way of unity with different youngsters of their age. Rupani stated, “A section of children attend private pre-primary schools, wear uniforms and feel proud. With a similar objective, the state government decided to give uniform to all Anganwadi children so that even our children should not be left behind, have a distinctive identity and feel confident.”
Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Vibhav-ariben Dave said in her digital tackle, “Gujarat is the first state to give uniforms to over 14 lakh anganwadi children at a cost of Rs 36 crore. When private nursery schools can have uniforms, why not anganwadi children? They will look smart in uniforms and also attract other children to the anganwadis.” Under the scheme, every little one will likely be given two units of uniforms — a gray pinafore skirt for ladies and gray shorts for boys, with beige examine shirts for each.
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation joined the digital occasion and handed out uniforms to 6 youngsters. The civic physique will ask their dad and mom to return the uniforms to the anganwadi employees in the interim, till the federal government points directions to reopen the anganwadi.
Dr Devesh Patel, Medical Officer for Health, VMC, advised The Indian Express, “The distribution of the uniforms, which arrived earlier, will be held when the Anganwadi is allowed to reopen. As per the instructions received to keep the Anganwadi closed, the ICDS department will ask the parents of the six children to return the uniforms so that they can be used when the Anganwadis reopen. If the children use the uniforms while the Anganwadi is closed, the purpose of the exercise will be defeated as it is meant to instil a sense of discipline and unity at pre-school.”
In a round dated June 28 (a replica of which is with The Indian Express) issued by WCD Commis-sioner to numerous municipal companies and district administrations within the state, the federal government has prolonged the closure of the Anganwadis for a interval of 15 days till July 13. VMC officers stated that the communication was acquired on Tuesday, guaranteeing that the distribution of 16,148 uniforms to over 8,000 youngsters of 399 anganwadis in Vadodara was deferred to adjust to the order. -
Gujarat: Amended Freedom of Religion Act to return into power from June 15
The Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021, which prohibits forcible spiritual conversion by marriage, will come into power from June 15, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani mentioned in an official launch Friday.
The stringent laws was handed in Gujarat Assembly on April 1 with majority vote after a marathon debate amid opposition by members of Congress who termed the Bill as one with “political agenda”. The CM has introduced to convey the amended Act in power from June 15 after Governor Acharya Devavrata gave his consent to the Bill not too long ago.
The newest Act has amended the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003 with some stringent provisions in opposition to any particular person or establishment indulging in forcible spiritual conversion by marriage. It has provisions like most punishment of as much as 10 years imprisonment and superb as much as Rs 5 lakh, burden of proof on the accused and investigation by an officer not under the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police.
Also, any marriage completed solely with a objective of non secular conversion will likely be declared null and void by the court docket having jurisdiction below the provisions of the Act. The Act aimed to take care of spiritual conversion by “allurement, force or by misrepresentation or by any other fraudulent means”.In the unique Act, most punishment for forcible spiritual conversion by fraudulent means was of 4 years and superb as much as Rs 1 lakh. The authentic Act had two classes of “allurement” – “any gift or gratification, either in cash or kind” and “grant of any material benefit, either monetary or otherwise”. The amended Act has added third class to the allurement clause: “better lifestyle, divine blessings or otherwise.”
Congress had opposed the Bill within the Assembly whereas stating that the federal government was saying that it was to test actions like “love jihad”, however the Bill didn’t have the utilization “love jihad” even as soon as. -
Gujarat CM inaugurates 8 bus station buildings
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday nearly devoted new buildings of eight bus stations and one bus depot of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC). In the identical digital programme from Gandhinagar, the CM additionally laid basis stone of 5 workshops of GSRTC.
The 9 taluka locations the place new bus stations and one bus depot have been nearly inaugurated by CM Rupani embody Dehgam in Gandhinagar district, Sanand in Ahmedabad, Limdi in Dahod, Santrampur in Panchmahals, Palanpur in Banaskantha, Piplav in Anand, Waghodia in Vadodara, Demai in Aravalli and Bhavnagar. The complete bills incurred on the eight bus stations and one bus depot is round Rs 28.20 crore.
The 5 new ST workshops, whose basis stone was laid nearly by the CM embody Dwarka, Morbi, Wankaner, Virpur and Sardhar. Different ministers within the state authorities had attended completely different venues in particular person. These workshops will probably be constructed at the price of Rs 15.52 crore.Virtually addressing the capabilities, CM Rupani stated that the state transport service is a imply of serving the folks of the state and never that of creating revenue. He additionally congratulated the staff of GSRTC for the position performed by them in pure calamities like cyclone or flood in evacuation of individuals to security.
Rupani stated that the GSRTC is offering public transport service to round 25 lakh folks day by day masking 99 per cent of rural areas of the state. -
Gujarat: Self-finance faculties need steerage on college students who haven’t paid charges in 2020-’21
The Self-Finance School Management Association (SFSMA) of Gujarat has written to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama requesting them to information on motion to be taken about college students who’re promoted however haven’t paid the charges for a yr or extra.
In the letter despatched on Thursday, the affiliation talked about that because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the state authorities had determined to mass-promote college students from Classes 1 to 12. However, many dad and mom haven’t paid the charges of the educational yr 2020-’21 to the colleges that had given 25 per cent concession following a Gujarat High Court order. Apart from this, the colleges have additionally given extra relaxations to oldsters who had been in dire straits because of the pandemic, the affiliation stated.
The letter stated, “The only source of income of self-finance schools is fees collected from the students. From the fees, schools authorities give salaries to teaching and non-teaching staff, do maintenance works, pay electricity bills and taxes… There are several students who have not paid the school fees for 2020-’21. The Government should guide or issue notification on how to collect fees of such students as the new academic year is starting from June 7…”“There are some parents who are out of contact… there are others whose children are not attending online classes and have not paid the fees… The SFSMA is in bad state… Need guidance on what to be done if parents of students who have not paid their fees come to take school leaving certificate,” the letter added.
Talking to The Indian Express, SFSMA spokesperson, Dr Dipak Rajyaguru, stated, “There are around 600 self-finance schools in Surat and around 1,600 across the state. Around 40 per cent students have not paid the fees of 2020-21… We want that government to guide us and declare a relief package for SFSMA.” -
Use Covid care centres for isolation in rural areas: CM Vijay Rupani
To stop the additional unfold of Covid-19 in rural areas of Gujarat, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Thursday held a video convention with all of the district improvement officers (DDOs) and Chief District Health Officers (CDHOs) of the state.
In the assembly, the chief minister instructed the highest rural officers to unfold consciousness about preserving individuals with delicate signs in isolation at Community Covid Care Centres (CCCC) in order that the an infection doesn’t unfold amongst their members of the family.
An official launch stated that the CM has instructed the highest officers to make sure that vital amenities can be found at CCCC.
The launch stated that underneath the ‘Maru Gam – Corona Mukta Gam’ marketing campaign, 13,061 Covid care centres have been arrange to this point in numerous villages of 33 districts with whole capability of 1.20 lakh beds.The assembly was additionally attended by Chief Secretary Anil Mukim, Principal Health Secretary Jayanti Ravi and Secretary (Rural Development) Vijay Nehra.