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Gandhi's work to be digitized
21 volumes of ‘The
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi’ will now be digitised by
three veteran Gandhians. Navjivan Press printed a 100 volumes of
CWMG. 79 volumes were reprinted and sold in the market whereas
the rest were never reprinted and not available in the market.
Six volumes were printed with initiative of Central Government
and Vidhyapith. These 21 volumes will carry 50000 pages and
expected to be completed in three years time. Original works of
Mahatma Gandhi will be preserved which cannot be edited. The
work will be carried by Gandhian author Tridip Suhrud and Dina
Patel, daughter of Professor C N Patel, who was deputy chief
editor of CWMG compiled by K Swaminathan.
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400 Doctors for Save Girl Child
4,000 radiologists from
across the country will rally for the girl child in Ahmedabad on
Republic Day. The walk would be held as part of the national
conference of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association from
January 23 to 26. The doctors have organised a special walk for
Save the girl child movement reiterating their commitment not to
perform sex determination tests so as to improve the sex ratio
of girl child in the country. The conference aims to provide a
common platform for radiologists and students from sub-specialities
to come together and share their knowledge and views. over 188
research papers would be presented in the conference where
advances of radiology in diagnosing diseases of almost all parts
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World Conference by VGS
Over 1,000 nonresident Gujarati
(NRG) delegates from 20 countries are participating in three-day
World Gujarati Conference and Exhibition at Ahmedabad Education
Society Ground. Beginning Friday, the event is being
hosted by Vishwa Gujarati Samaj (VGS) and intends to enable
better networking for business. The conference scheduled for
22nd January will celebrate the golden jubilee of Gujarat ,
which was carved out from Bombay state on May 1, 1960. A B2B
meet is also focused during the event. The three-day event is
meant to bring non-resident Gujaratis living across the globe on
a common platform to discuss various aspects of Gujarat and its
culture. The Samaj is also recognising the success and
contribution of the NRGs and as such, four NRGs will be awarded
during the ceremony. It is expected, in May, Gujaratis across
the world will celebrate by hosting programmes in their
respective cities, with a grand finale to be hosted by Gujarati
Samaj in New Jersey and New York. Participants at the exhibition
vary from Gujarat Tourism booth to gems and jewellery, clothes,
Khadi, Travel companies, Banks and a special cell jointly set up
with Business Women's wing of GCCI with over 40 women
entrepreneur participating at the event.
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GIFT city
Gujarat International Finance Tech
(GIFT) City project spread over more than 500 acres has kicked
off in the Koba-Raisan stretch of Gandhinagar. A 250-ft wide
road connecting GIFT with the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway
would be constructed in the next 18 months. The entry to GIFT
City would be punctuated by 300-ft wide circles. 4000
residential units are being constructed in the area. However,
due to melt down, GIFT project was standstill for some time
which is hoping now for global and domestic financial giants to
set up their back-offices here, giving the immense pool of
manpower available for the financial sector in Gujarat.
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NDEC 2010 Elocution Competition
Reliance
World presents its annual National
Digital Elocution Competition 2010
for students in the age
group of 10-15 years (Junior Category V-VII class and Senior
Category VIII-X class). Launched on 20th January 2009, the
competition is in association with Godrej Sara Lee’s “Good
Knight Naturals” Cream. Topics for the Junior Category will be
'The Best Day of my Life/Prevention is
better than cure' and for the Seniors,
'What's the future, Naturals or
chemicals?'/What makes a better student, Cramming or
understanding?' With a nominal fee,
NDEC 2010
registrations will be carried out across all
221 RW’s nationally across 100
plus Cities. The idea is to provide a platform to children where
they can voice their opinion and showcase their elocution talent
besides winning prizes and scholarships. Students are given the
opportunity to match their elocution skills on a platform that
integrates cutting edge technology and interactivity.
RW’s will drive registration
of school children for NDEC through local store marketing
activities and existing children’s database.
The school children record a 2
minute speech on a selected topic. The video recording will be
judged and evaluated by a panel of judges on the basis of
defined criteria.
Access for
Video recording on the NDEC Portal is through the user id &
password that is allocated to each participant at the time of
Online registration. The verified videos will be online for
voting from 25 Jan to 17th February and parents, teachers,
relatives, friends or surfers can vote for their favorite video.
26 Semi finalists will be selected, out of which 3 will be
eligible winners after evaluation by Judges.
Check Reliance World 2009 Winners and watch for student
entries for voting. |
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International Kite Festival in Gujarat
International
Kite Festival 2010 (20th festival) takes
off Sabarmati River Front in Ahmedabad. Organized by Gujarat
government and Tourism Corporation of Gujarat, the event had
participants over 7500 students from 100 municipal schools of
Ahmedabad who performed Yoga and Surya Vandana at the inaugural
on 11th January. The CM conveyed the message of love for
environment and told people to celebrate the festival safely and
take care to prevent injury to humans and birds. Over a 100
foreign kite flyers marked their presence who flew colorful,
innovative kites. Theme pavilions, Handicrafts and Swarnim
Gujarat pavilions are interesting places for visitors. Some of
the main attractions of the festival are flying of colourful
kites from different countries, Water sports, parasailing, para-jumping,
handicraft market, food court, adventure sports, and kite
painting. The festival will culminate Jan 14. |
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Smart Students with Open Book System
Mount Carmel
School which received Best School Award in 2008, takes the
initiative to start Open Book system to produce smarter
students. Students no more need to mug up lessons but have an
option to refer the book in subjects like social studies,
science and English while answering examination questions. As
per a newspaper report, the school authorities refrain to opine
their voice for this initiative. |
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Schools to make Traffic Rules part of Curriculum from June
2010 Traffic will be a part of school curriculum from next
year beginning from class IV as per the Government decision. The
City Traffic Police celebrated Traffic week in January. At a
traffic Interactive session organized by GCCI and Ahmedabad
Traffic Consultative Committee, policy makers, Industrialists
and Ahmedabad Traffic officials discussed traffic issues in the
city, earlier on Tuesday, 5th Jan. Mr. J P Gupta, Transport
Commissioner (person behind City Disaster management), Mr.
Mohan Jha, Police Commissioner, Mr. Anarwala, Dy. Commissioner
of Police answered the queries and discussed on issues related
to Traffic. Innovative Education vans will be introduced in 10
districts in Gujarat on a pilot project basis and the van will
have audio visual facility, printed material and traffic
awareness displays. It will conduct half day sessions in schools
for creating awareness. The curriculum in schools will inculcate
the understanding of traffic rules and regulations. The back
pages of text book will be used for putting mandatory and
precautionary traffic signs and signages. The Department is also
focusing on drivers, road traffic and education. Plans for
automated test for drivers of heavy vehicles will be done
periodically as well as streamlining the RTO facilities. |
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Multimedia, Animations for classrooms
It has been
announced that from the next academic year, students will be
taught animation story format to make easier and happier
classroom learning. Gujarat State is geared to upgrade the
system to ensure that academic learning is interesting and
beneficial to students. Primary school teachers are trained in
the use of multimedia and students of classes V, VI and VII will
be in first phase projects to learn multimedia in academics.
Implemented in Government schools, the project will be further
focused for private schools as well. The state government will
provide technical support and other electronic gadgets will be
part of school development. Subjects like English, Maths,
Science and Social studies will have prime teaching through
multimedia animation. |
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Jain Convention
Annual Digambar
Jain Samaj Convention is held on January 9 at Gandhinagar.
More than 3000 delegates from different parts of the world and
abroad are expected to attend the convention on 'Role of Jain
community in nation building.' Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and
other Ministers will be attending the event like every year.
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Braille reading competition
City celebrated Louis Braille's 202nd Birth anniversary. A
Braille reading competition was held by National Association for
Blind, Gujarat Chapter to mark Braille's birth anniversary.
Three students of Blind People's Association won the
competition. Also one student of Andh Kanya Prakash Gruh won at
the event. |
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Saptak Festival - celebration to meditate
Saptak Music
festival is being celebrated in town from 1st January to 13th
January. Held every year to welcome the new year, this event is
hosted by a Public Charitable Trust which runs the Saptak School
of Music. The show presents the best talents in classical music
and keeps alive the bygone music with presentations by music
maestro specialized in the field. These artists are world class
masters in music who perform on Saptak stage every year.
Instruments like Sarangi and Pakhawaj are played and various
Ragas and folk music is presented by artists. Having won a
landmark in cultural events, the festival draws huge crowds as
it issues no tickets but is sponsored by membership of well
wishers and business houses. This year, the festival is in fond
memory of Tabla Triumvirat Pt. Samta Prasad, Ustad Alla Rakha
and Pt. Kishan Maharaj. The festival is in two breaks this year
with 1st part 1-13 January at Kashiram Hall near University area
and the 2nd part will be 19-21 January at AES Post Graduate
Institute of Business Management near IIM.
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NID to create awareness
NID (National Institute of Design has anounced a series of
one day program on 'Industrial Design Registration and
Protection to be held at five places in the city starting from
January 16. In Pune on January 23, Bangalore on February 13,
Delhi on March 13 and Kolkata on March 20. The sessions are open
for creative design professionals and innovators. These
programmes are being jointly offered with office of Controller
general patents, designs and trademarks, GOI. Participants can
register at Institute's website. |
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Roller Skating Champions
Ahmedabad roller skaters shine at National Championships and
brought back laurels to the city. The 55th National Roller
Skating Championships were held in Delhi from December 24 to 29.
Three city school girls who were coached by Ms
Jyotika Desai won the medals. Aashna Shah (St Xavier’s Loyola
Hall; two gold medals in Under-19 category); Devanshi Dalal (Zydus
School for Excellence; two goldmedals in U-17); Mishri Parikh (AIS;
two golds in U-11); Sohani Shah (Mount Carmel; one silver, one
bronze)and Ruhi Shethwala (St Kabir; one silver).
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Swarnim celebrations ticks to
unity
On New Year, Swarnim Gujarat celebrations
began with all party politicians in Gujarat, taking a vow to
celebrate golden jubilee of Gujarat’s foundation on May 1 this
year. Nearly 550 past and present MLAs and MPs out of 750 living
in different corners of the state were welcomed with flowers in
the Assembly. In the event organized jointly by the ruling BJP
and the opposition Congress,it has been an “event to be
remembered”. A specially installed swarnim clock began ticking
in the assembly podium, and CM Narendra Modi, accompanied by
Madhavsinh Solanki and Keshubhai Patel, unveiled portraits of
eight CMs and five late speakers. Chief Minister Narendra Modi
appealed to all political sections in the state to “rise above
party politics” for the state’s development. Modi urged them to
take a united stand on the issue of state’s development in the
same spirit as was done on the issue of constructing the Narmada
dam decades ago. He said, “We can take the state on the march
towards development only by following the Narmada spirit.”
Supporting the resolution, Opposition leader Shaktisinh Gohil,
however, said the credit for development of Gujarat could not go
to any individual. He added, all Gujaratis, including those
living abroad, had a role in the development.
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Peace with Pakistan - Give a
Chance
The two leading media houses of India and Pakistan - The
Times of India and the Jang Group - have come together to
develop a stronger Track 2 in the diplomatic and cultural
relations between India and Pakistan. "Aman ki Asha: Destination
Peace" looks beyond the confines of a 62-year-old political
boundary to the primal bonds that tie together the two peoples.[
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Kankaria Carnival Successful
A week long Kankaria
Carnival has turned to be a grand success to farewell 2009 and
welcome 2010. More than 15 lakh persons have participated in the
carnival that started on December 25. Sponsorship of Rs 50 lakh
were received for events and activities organised at carnival.
More than 165 organisations and 15,000 children participated in
the mega event.
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BRTS - Ahmedabad Janmarg at its best performance
The
BRTS of Ahmedabad has been nominated for the 2010 Sustainable
Transport Award to be conferred on January 12 in Washington DC.
Ahmedabad will compete with BRTS systems in Cali city of
Columbia, Curitiba city of Brazil, Guadalajara city in Mexico
and Johannesburg in South Africa. The BRTS systems were chosen
by a select group of independent institutions like ITDP, EMBARQ,
gtz, ICLEI, UITP and UNDP. Municipal Authorities will be
participating in this four day long 89th annual meeting of TRB
(Transport Research Board) where the conference attracts more
than 10,000 transportation professionals from around the world.
A session on 'Arrangements for managing and operating Bus Rapid
Transit System' will be attended by AMC Mun. commissioner IP
Gautam and standing committee chairman, Asit Vora.
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