Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate police projects, built and ready-to-use, worth Rs 347 crore across the state on May 29.Government sources said that after addressing a gathering in Nadiad, Shah will virtually inaugurate the police projects, which include 25 new police stations, police lines, SP offices, and headquarters, apart from Intelligence Bureau offices in Kutch district of Gujarat. The projects in Kutch aim to strengthen the land and sea border of the state.Amit Shah will arrive in the city on Friday night. PM Narendra Modi will also be on a one-day visit to the state. He will arrive on Saturday. “Union home minister Amit Shah will proceed to Nadiad where he will address a large gathering and dedicate the newly built police HQ in Nadiad. Later, he will virtually inaugurate ready-to-use police projects,” said state police chief DGP Ashish Bhatia.Police sources said projects worth Rs 57 crore will be inaugurated in Ahmedabad alone. “These include a 40-quarter police line in Vatva, 96 quarters in Devjipura and 104 quarters in the city. In Gandhinagar, projects worth Rs 192 will be inaugurated that include a 192-quarter police housing building and a barrack worth Rs 9.5 crore at Karai Police Training Academy,” Bhatia said.Shah will also inaugurate a cyber police station and a newly built Detection of Crime Branch office in Rajkot along with a DSP office in Dhoraji in Rajkot Rural. In Rajkot city, a 80-quarter police lines will be dedicated to the police personnel and officials in Rajkot city by Shah.In both Kutch (east) and (west), new police stations in Nara and Devpur will be inaugurated virtually. “Along with newly built marine police stations, IB buildings will also be inaugurated by the Union minister. These will help keep a watch on land and sea borders of the state, and keep an eye for intelligence on infiltrators and drug traffickers. Projects worth Rs 24 crore will be dedicated to the police force,” said a senior official.DGP Bhatia said that along with Tapi police headquarters built at the cost of Rs 13 crore, police stations and police buildings in Junagadh, Dang, Navsari, Banaskantha, Bhavnagar, Chota Udepur, Mehsana, Vadodara rural and Mahisagar will be inaugurated by Amit Shah.
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government is gearing up to host PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah. On Sunday, the PM will preside over a cooperation conclave while Shah will inaugurate police housing projects, worth Rs 348 crore, the state government said. Minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi told mediapersons in Gandhinagar on Wednesday that residential and non-residential premises for police personnel, built at a cost of Rs 347 crore, will be inaugurated by the Union home minister. A total of 57 buildings in 25 districts will be inaugurated, Sanghavi said. State government spokesman Jitu Vaghani said arrangements to host PM Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah are in their final stages. "The PM will be in Gujarat for a day and will have two engagements, at Jasdan and Gandhinagar. Amit Shah will be in Gujarat for three days, May 27 to 29, and will preside over several engagements, besides watching the IPL final in Ahmedabad," Vaghani said. On other cabinet decisions, Vaghani said LPG dealers and distributors will no longer need permits from the state food and civil supplies department. About 1,000 LPG dealers will benefit from this decision, he added. Vaghani said a national conference on school education will be held in Gandhinagar on June 1 and 2, with participants from all states and the Union government.
Waterborne diseases have risen in the city seemingly due to the negligence of the AMC’s health department. There are more cases this year than there were in 2021. In the first 21 days of May, there have been 550 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting, 110 of jaundice and 177 typhoid cases. Also, there have been seven cases of cholera since the start of the year. These are just patients who were admitted in hospitals. Those who took outdoor treatment, which sources said are five times the number, are not notified by the AMC.Due to rising temperatures, use of water is increasing. Leakage in water pipelines in areas where there are illegal connections is leading to contamination of the water supply, causing waterborne diseases. In March, there were two cases of cholera in eastern part of Ahmedabad. The AMC had conducted checks in the Behrampura and Vatva areas. In April, another cholera case was detected in Seema Rowhouse in Behrampura.In water samples drawn from the city, 133 were declared unfit and 24 samples failed in May itself. In the last four and a half months, 32,651 chlorine tests were conducted of which 567 had shown a ‘nil’ report. There were 59 patients of malaria (falciparum) and 4 cases of malaria (vivax), 14 cases of dengue, 11 cases of chikungunya admitted to hospital in the 21 days of May 2022. There were 28,281 blood samples drawn for viral fever and 741 serum samples were taken by the AMC in May.From January 1 to May 21, there were 2,112 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting, 596 of jaundice, 614 of typhoid, and 7 cases of cholera in the city.
Ahmedabad: In what comes as a warning for citizens, cases of waterborne diseases in the city are on an upward spiral even before the onset of monsoon. City hospitals have registered 66 new typhoid cases between May 14 and 21. The total number of typhoid cases in the city stood at 111 on May 14 which rose to 177 on May 21, up 59.5% from the previous week. Last year, 17 cases were recorded in the month of May. In the same week, city hospitals registered 155 new cases of diarrhoea. As on May 14, 395 diarrhoea cases were recorded which rose to 550 on May 21, up 39.3%. In comparison, only four cases of diarrhoea were registered in May last year.The number of jaundice cases stood at 110 on May 21, up 119% from 48 cases on May 14. In May last year, the hospitals had registered 23 jaundice cases. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) health department data showed that cases of vector-borne diseases were also up as compared to last year. City hospitals registered 59 cases of malaria till May 21, up 14 from 45 cases as on May 14. Only six cases were reported in May last year. No new cases of falciparum were registered in the city this week while the number of dengue cases on May 21 stood at 14 up from seven as on May 14. AMC registers most complaints for mosquito control from its west, north-west, south and south-west zones. A health department official said that this month 9,715 chlorine tests were carried out, of which 308 results showed absence of residual chlorine. The department collected 1,412 bacteriological samples and found 24 samples unfit.
