GUJARAT

With an ambitious target of having two lakhelectric vehicleson roads within a period of four years, the announced theGujarat Electric Vehicles Policy, 2021.

While the government has announced subsidies between Rs 20,000 and Rs1.5 lakh for different types of electric vehicles, it has also promised to ramp up charging Infrastructure for electric vehicles.

The policy has a four-fold objective of popularizing the use of e-vehicles, making Gujarat a hub for e-vehicle manufacturing, protecting the Environment, as well as encouraging start-ups and investors in the field of electric mobility.

There is a two percent improvement in gender ratio in Vadodara city and district. Authorities involved in the electoral roll revision process said that compared to the Population as per 2011 census, the revised electoral roll suggests an improvement in the gender ratio by 2%.

Going by the 2011 census, there were 934 females for every 1,000 males. The gender ratio has improved as there are 953 females for every 1,000 males.
The improved gender ratio in Vadodara came to Light during a meeting recently chaired by the superintendent ofstamps and electoral roll supervisor,Jenu Devan.

It came to light that as of April 1, Vadodara had 25,99,627 registered voters – 13,30,862 male, 12,68,539 female, and the rest 226 third gender.

Gujarat Technological University(GTU) has developed a method to test if aremdesivir injectiondose is real or fake.

Two pharmacy students, Malay Pandya and Nisarg Patel, have under the supervision of Dr Kashyap Thummar developed this method and members of the general public can send samples for verification.

Police have busted several units making fake remdesivir across the country, including in Gujarat, in the second wave of Covid-19. In one of the cases in Gujarat, an accused made the counterfeit anti-viral drug using a compound of glucose and salt. Last week, the local crime branch of Morbi busted a racket to sell fake remdesivir injections and detained six persons from Morbi, Ahmedabad, and Surat.

Due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in the country, there has been a huge demand for remdesivir. Over the past few weeks, several cases of hoarding and black Marketing of remdesivir have also been reported.

Industries ministerBalvantsinh Rajputsaid on Wednesday that the business-friendly policies of theGujaratgovernment had made the state a leader in .
He said Gujarat leads among all states in sectors like textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, ceramic, diamonds and others.

Speaking in the assembly on the budgetary demands of the state industries and mines department, the minister said Gujarat accounts for 33% of the countrys exports. With 18.14% of the countrys industrial production, Gujarat is ranked first in the country as far as industrial production is concerned,Rajputsaid. He stated that the manufacturing sector had enjoyed the largest share of the states GDP. State finance minister Kanubhai Desai had allocated Rs 8,589 crore for the industries and mines department.

Commenting on Gujarats share in theFDIthat the country has received, Rajput said, Gujarat has received Rs 18 lakh crore FDI in the past eight years, and this is 57% of the total Rs 32 lakh crore FDI that the country has received in this period.

Quoting Centres figures, the minister said that between 2010 and 2022, Gujarats share of Investment intentions filed was 16.3%, with investment intentions of Rs 14 lakh crore made during the period. He added that the Atmanirbhar schemes for Industry assistance have also received encouraging responses. Several companies have signed MoUs with the State Government to set up units across the state in various sectors.

The central government has allotted Rs 1,000 crore for strengthening the electricity distribution in the Rajkot district. The power ministry allotted the fund under a revamped distribution sector scheme.

According to a statement issued by the information department, the fund will be used in various projects like replacing open cables of 11KV with medium voltage cover control, replacing existing transformers with high-capacity ones, and others. A system to provide consumers with their daily power usage on a mobile app is in the pipeline so that they can regulate their daily consumption.

The government may look to add three highway stretches fromGujaratto theasset monetisation pipelineafter they were handed back to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) after the end of the 15-year concession period.

The Centres target to mop up Rs 45,000 crore from monetisation of highway projects is expected to get a boost during the next financial year as the roads are high toll earners.

The three projects in Gujarat, with a cumulative length of 377 km, can be monetized to generate Rs 18,000 crore to Rs 20,000 crore, the sources estimated.

These were among the first few projects which were bid out by the NHAI under the Build Operate and Transfer (BOT-Toll) model of Public Private PARTNERSHIP (PPP).

At a time when the state is battling a massive surge in Covid-19 cases, it is faced with an alarming deficit of super specialists in government hospitals.

Going by government data itself,Gujaratis faced with a 99% shortfall in super specialist doctors like surgeons, paediatricians, obstetricians-gynaecologists and the like.

This deficit of specialist doctors is the highest among all major states of the country. If Gujarat was compared to all states, it is ranked second from bottom with onlyMizoramfaring worse than Gujarat.

According to data released in the Handbook of Statistics of India States (2020-2021) by the Reserve Bank Of India, Gujarat has a requirement of 1,392 super specialists, and its shortfall is 99% at 1,379. Among all states, only Mizoram fares worse with a 100% shortfall against the requirement of 36 super specialists.

All other states fare better than Gujarat in terms of the deficit of super specialists in government healthcare systems.

Maharashtra(64%), Madhya Pradesh (96%),Rajasthan(80%),Bihar(46%), Uttar Pradesh (71%) West Bengal (54%) and several other states have a lesser Percentage of deficit of super specialists as compared to Gujarat.

ased on GSDP places Gujarat at the fourth position with Rs 16. 4 crore.
Based on the data collated by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) for across India, Karnataka had the richest assembly with Average value of assets of its MLAs at Rs 34 crore after the 2018 election. It w as followed by Andhra Pradesh (2018 election) and Maharashtra (2019 election) at Rs 27 crore and Rs 22 crore. The top five list was completed with Tamil Nadu at Rs 12 crore after the 2021 election.

ExportsfromGujarathave touched a record high, crossing the Rs 5 lakh crore mark for the first time ever. Importantly, the feat has been achieved in the first half of 2021-22.

Experts believe that the annual exports from the state were likely to cross Rs nine lakh crore this fiscal.

Gujarat had beenexportinggoods worth about Rs 4.50 lakh crore annually. However, in the current financial year, the exports have touched Rs 5.16 lakh crore in the first six months (April to October), which is a 118% jump compared to the same period last year.