Kanu Desai

The Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL) will set up three new divisional offices in South Gujarat. Gujarat energy minister Kanu Desai on Saturday said this.

The Congress on Tuesday walked out of the house over discrepancies in information on electricity provided by the state government. To a question by Congress MLA Niranjan Patel, energy minister Kanu Desai said the state has surplus power.

An analysis of the election affidavits of the 17 cabinet ministers of Gujarat by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) revealed that the average value of their declared assets is Rs 32.7 crore. In 2017, it was Rs 13.3 crore, which reduced to Rs 3.9 crore in the cabinet in 2021.

Gujarat’s public debt is now Rs 3,00,963 crore according to the revised estimates of 2020-21, the state assembly was informed on Tuesday.

The Gujarat government will soon announce three new policies relating to power generation. These deal with waste-to-energy, wind power and small hydel power generation.

surat textile industry leaders in the region are upbeat over the announcement of land at vansi borsi of navsari for the mega integrated textile region and apparel mitra park by cabinet minister for finance Kanu Desai in his budget speech on thursday the industry had been demanding allocation of land for the mitra park ever since the scheme was announced by the central government and the city.

The Congress and BJP engaged in slogan shouting during question hour, over the matter of ‘revised’ power purchase agreement with Adani Power for higher prices than what was mentioned in the 2007 contract.

Ahmedabad district leads in solar power consumption in the state with 34,794 consumers and its total installed solar power generation capacity reaching 1.54L KW. More than 2.3 lakh household consumers have registered for Surya Gujarat, a solar rooftop scheme, in the past two years.

With no headway for over two years in the project to enable discharge of effluent deep into the sea, the Gujarat government has revived the project, with a budgetary allocation of Rs 470 crore for it.

State finance minister Kanu Desai told the Gujarat assembly that the total debt of the state according to the revised estimates of 2021-22 is Rs 3.21 lakh crore.

The announcement was made after state energy minister Kanu Desai signed a power usage agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to procure 700 MW electricity at 2.57 per unit for 25 years.

In a major relief for the cash-strapped Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC), the state government has agreed to give Rs 100 crore for the state’s longest flyover to come up in the city.

Feeding cows early in the morning either with grass or chappatis as is your personal choice can continue only if you have been practising it in a gaushala or panjrapol. If it is a stray 'sewa' done on public roads, stop. For, your act of bovine kindness will not melt the authorities' hearts who will instead reward you with a jail term!

The Rajkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry has written a letter to the state government requesting that urgent attention be given to the pending GST issues that affect trade and industry in Gujarat. The issues listed include issues with traders claiming input tax credits, the punishment of people whose GST numbers are cancelled ab initio, and the government not collecting the amount of credits claimed from traders whose numbers are cancelled.

Addressing virtually a medical camp in Olpad town near the Diamond City on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the recent projections by International Monetary Fund (IMF) for India. Modi said in his address, "India has become the fifth largest economy in the world and this is not an ordinary achievement. Every Indian is feeling proud of this. We need to maintain this enthusiasm."