The will set up a migrant labour assistance centre at Surat in Gujarat.
The assistance centre will help migrant labourers from the state to seek redressal of various grievances and issues and ensure their safety and welfare at their workplaces, officials said. The government approved the proposed centre in Surat in October. The centre will be similar to existing facilities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Just as the has begun several rounds of meetings to draft its own law mandating CCTV installation at all premises – cameras facing streets and providing its live feed to local Police, Gujarat’s Home department had prepared its detailed manual in 2018 — the Safe and SecureGujarat(SAS-Guj) project manual citing the depth of CCTV surveillance which aims at controlling crime.
The manual provides for integrating all live feeds from Internet protocol (IP) based cameras across the state to a central data farm where a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) based video analytics program will process the video feed and conduct 15 primary tasks apart from traffic offences,eGujcop, ‘Vahan’ and ‘Sarthi’that is mandated.
The SAS-Guj manual mandates that the AI program analysing the video feeds to conduct attribute search – collect all images or footage of objects, vehicles based on colour or make or registration across all video feeds for any given time frame.
Then specific functions like overcrowding, loitering, intrusion detection, abandoned object detection and even suspicious movements too will be reported by the AI program.
The state government is also mulling over aPPPmodel where the home department may partly fund CCTV installation in societies. The Gujarat law currently being drafted keeps two existing state laws in reference- the Karnataka Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2017 and a similar law for Andhra Pradesh enacted in 2013.
Gujarat currently has an Oxygen manufacturing capacity of at least 1,000MT, according to sources. A majority of this is diverted towards industrial consumption. In routine times, the medical consumption of oxygen is barely 50MT in a day.
The new Plants that are being commissioned include 392 being set up by the government and the remaining by private sector.
Farmers are paid between Rs 680 and Rs 710 per kg of fat as the procurement price by the dairies, according to GCMMF officials.
The Average milk procurement price remained stable throughout the country in the pandemic year, according to the data tabled in Parliament.
Even in the pandemic year, milk procurement continued to grow in Gujarat, as has been the case for a couple of decades. Collectively, the countrys largest co-operative handled 40 lakh litres of milk per day (LLPD) extra during the pandemic.
Gujarat, the state that led the way in solar power adoption in India, has secured the third position in terms of cumulative large-scalesolar installationsin the country.
Notably, Gujarat experienced an impressive 85% increase in such installations during the first quarter of 2023, while solar installations across India declined by 30% during the same period, according to the India Solar Market Update 2023 report by Mercom India.
Between January and March 2023, Gujarat witnessed 261 megawatts (MW) of solar installations, compared to 141MW in the previous quarter. Since Q1 2022, Gujarat has consistently ranked as the third-highest state for large-scale solar capacity addition, with an impressive quarter-over-quarter increase of nearly 85% in Q1 2023.
Furthermore, experts credit Gujarat’s rise in installation rates to its favourable policies and aggressive push for RENEWABLE ENERGY adoption.
Pan-India solar installations declined due to commissioning deadlines for several large-scale projects being postponed to the following year. Out of the total 1.9GW of solar installations in India during the January to March 2023 quarter, Gujarat accounted for 19% of new installations, trailing behind Karnataka (21%) andRajasthan(42%).
Appraisal time is here. However, it is unlikely to bring much cheer to those working in the IT sector as the increments are expected to be lowest in the past three years. experts believe increments may be at an Average rate of 8% compared to 15% last year.
IT companies have seen a significant increase in input costs, but there has been no proportionate rise in revenues, said industry leaders.
Gujaratis emerging as an important destination for the IT industry, and experts believe that the availability of the talent pool has improved, which will continue to boost the IT sectors Growth here. IT companies in the state are evolving, and professionals with expertise in new technologies will continue to get heftier rewards. After the pandemic, Gujarat-based IT professionals have seen their salary packages increase by more than double due to the high demand for talent.
State water supply minister Kunvarji Bavaliya said that the per capita water availability in the state will be doubled in the next 25 years. Bavaliya said the present per capita availability of water in Gujarat is 850 cubic metres, which will be increased to 1,700 cubic metres by 2047.
Bavaliya is participating in the 1st All India Annual States Ministers Conference on Water Vision@2047 which began on Thursday in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The Resources“>Water Resources ministers of 30 states, Union ministers and officials are participating in the conference. Bavaliya said the has undertaken a strategic programme to eradicate water scarcity. He listed programmes implemented in areas of Gujarat that faced water scarcity. Gujarat has ensured a marked decrease in critical, semi-critical and dark zones in 20 years, Bavaliya said.
After receiving complaints about the recently enacted anti-land grabbing laws and looking at the flurry of petitions in theGujarat challenging various provisions, the State Government is likely to soon come out with an ordinance to rectify lacunae in the law.
The law has been under question for various reasons, mainly for unsettling settled disputes by its overriding effect on pending civil disputes and decrees of civil courts. The lawyers termed this law draconian and submitted how Gujarat has adopted few safeguards compared to other states.
TheGujarathigh court on decided to take up the issue of curbing plastic waste menace and said public awareness should be created to do away with excessive usage of plastic. Putting a question about bringing in deterrence to resolve this growing problem, it said, This is going to be an uphill task, but there is always hope.
The court has been hearing two litigations filed in 2018 seeking strict implementation of plastic Waste Management rules and complete ban on paper cups and dishes, in which multi-layered plastic material is used. Besides, the petitions seek on manufacturing and sale of plastic products that are not recyclable.
With increase in sowing area, cumin production inGujarathas grown by 50% over a five year period from FY 2017 to FY 2021, according to a report byglobal trade finance company,Drip Capital. During this period, cumin production stood at 4.29 lakh tonne in FY 2021.
Gujarat, which is thelargest exporter of spices, especially cumin seeds, exported nearly $700 million worth of spices in FY 2021 according to the report. The state has seen a relatively quicker and higher rise in exports with a CAGR of 19% for the past five years till FY21.