Vadodara/Anand: In 2012, Mittal Patel of Borsad taluka’s Kavitha village ventured into dairy business with just one cow. She along with her husband and brother-in-law increased cattle holding by taking loans. Now, this 38-year-old is a proud owner of Sargam dairy farm, having nearly 200 cows including 75 calves. The farm alone supplies around 1,700 litres milk directly to Amul Dairy on a daily basis.
Women dairy entrepreneurs like Mittal are the backbone of the dairy industry in Gujarat – the cradle of India’s White Revolution . A study carried out by research scholars of the Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence (VKCoE) of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) highlights women’s pivotal role in growth of Gujarat’s dairy sector.
Viru Godadiya
VADODARA: Even in his death 32-year-old Viru Godadiya saved the lives of four persons and provided sight to one. His organs were successfully transplanted in five different persons on Saturday.
Viru had met with an accident near Dena Crossroads on Thursday. He was initially rushed to the SSG Hospital (SSGH) and then to the SiddhiICU and Multispecialty Hospital in the city. Late on Thursday night, the doctors at the hospital declared him brain dead.
“We explained to the family how there were no chances of his condition improving and asked them to consider organ donation to save lives. The family was reluctant initially and we asked them to think about it,” said Dr Jayesh Rajpura from the hospital.
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VADODARA: The police have booked nine astrologers for duping deceased Narendra Soni of Rs 32.85 lakh in the past two years. Soni had consulted several astrologers to overcome his financial problems and ended up paying them all a huge amount. The police have formed two teams to track down the astrologers from Vadodara and Ahmedabad.
“Narendra’s son, Bhavin told us that his father was under immense stress to repay debts and they were not finding a good buyer for their house. So he contacted several astrologers to seek a solution. The astrologers offered to perform some rituals and took lakhs of rupees from Soni,” said P D Parmar, Sama police inspector.
Vadodara: The fire department on Thursday sealed five big commercial buildings that had not taken a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the department for years.
Shree Ram Chambers and Windsor Plaza were sealed in Alkapuri, in Sayajigunj Alankar Tower and Antriksh Complex and Blue Diamond Complex in Fatehgunj were sealed. Help from police was taken to evacuate the building and MGVCL was asked to disconnect the electricity.
Despite repeated notices, several commercial and residential buildings in different areas of the city have failed to take NOC. On January 1, Vadodara Fire and Emergency Services (VFES) had given notices as per state government’s gazette to such buildings threatening to seal them and disconnect electricity if fire equipment is not installed and NOC is not taken.
Vadodara posed project’s biggest engineering challenge for NHSRCL
Vadodara: The National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) will be saving at least Rs 2,000 crore with re-alignment in Vadodara alignment of the high-speed rail corridor.
Instead of the original plan of constructing the HSR station by dismantling the existing platform 6 of Vadodara railway station, the station will now come up at platform 7.
Vadodara posed the project’s biggest engineering challenge for NHSRCL.
“Apart from construction challenges, the overall cost has also gone down conservatively by Rs 2,000 crore. The earlier estimate was in the range of Rs 4,000 crore to Rs 4,500 crore,” said Achal Khare, managing director of NHSRCL.
Vadodara: Moving a step ahead, the Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) on Thursday awarded a contract for constructing its international cricket stadium .
Vadodara: After initial hesitancy about taking the Covid-19 vaccine and technical glitches that were experienced in the platform to register for the jab, the phase III rollout of vaccination drive is gathering pace in Vadodara.
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) had witnessed a very slow start on Monday, which was the first day of phase III covering persons between the ages of 45 years and 60 years having comorbidities and senior citizens.
Same was the case with health centres in Vadodara rural.
But within three days, more than 16,582 persons have been vaccinated by the VMC and district health officials.
“Our daily average is in the range of 70 to 85 % which is a healthy trend. At majority of our session sites, on the spot registration, is carried out for senior citizens who are coming forward to take the doses voluntarily as the word about safety of vaccines is spreading,” said Dr Uday Tilawat, district immunization officer and additional district health officer.
Vadodara: ‘Bhavatam sarvesham, hardam hardam swagat aste’ — tourists visiting the Statue of Unity (SoU) at Kevadia get welcomed in chaste Sanskrit by .