Lions thrown in the parking lot of Gandhinagar! | Ahmedabad News – Times of India

The Sher family, often shown at major junctions during VIP visits, is gathering dust in the open at Aranya Bhavan. Gandhinagar. These exhibits with whale sharks, male lions, walking lionesses have been thrown into the parking lot without a care. The state would have spent lakhs to get the exhibitions built, but after that no attention was paid. It is only during a VIP visit that they leave their parking space and step onto the street. A senior official said that such displays which are lying unused should be permanently installed at the junctions and put to use.
When BJ doctors transplanted a tree and it survived!
They do organ transplants and give new lease of life to the people, but the doctors and staff of BJ Medical College also gave a new lease of life to a Peepal tree near the college through transplantation. Dr Harish Khubchandani, senior faculty member of the Department of Forensic Medicine, said the tree gave shelter to several relatives of the patients. “During the cyclone Tauta, the tree was completely uprooted. Since the tree was part of the lives of many employees, we found out if we could salvage it. We had got the equipment and permission from the then medical superintendent Dr JP Modi,” he said. The work paid off as the tree recently started to develop new branches, indicating the success of the process. “Every tree is important, and we would be happy if our small initiative inspired others,” said Dr. Khubchandani.
Agency executives or Hollywood stars?
With the help of modern technology, one can easily get the name and identity details of the people through the phone numbers. This was a matter of concern for officers working with various police agencies like ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad) and Crime Branch. To avoid revealing his identity, he created his profile on social media using the names and pictures of Hollywood stars. An ATS officer who went on a covert operation in Kashmir used the surname of Matrix star Keanu Reeves. A Crime Branch officer uses Tom Hanks’ name in his social media profile.
Picking up someone from abroad at SVPI airport? Get your own chair!
While the flow of international flights has improved at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport in Ahmedabad in the last two months, with the resumption of flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, London and Sharjah, the number of passengers Families continue to crowd outside the international terminal, for lack of seating. “I had come from Bharuch to pick up my son, who is returning from Abu Dhabi, UAE. His friends took me to Ahmedabad. But there is no place to sit outside the airport and there is no place where we can get some food. I packed some food from home and we had no option but to sit on the sidewalk and eat,” said the septuagenarian mother of the flyer who arrived on Friday night. Citizens say that with the resumption of international flights, the infrastructure at the terminal should be augmented. The concern of insufficient seating area for the next of kin was raised time and again even at the airport operated by AAI.
Doctor who loves to take gifts!
Retired nephrologists from a leading government-run kidney hospital are still asking for special gifts to relatives of their former patients, which they called the gift of bondage. The doctor has created a WhatsApp group using which he solicits gifts such as dry fruits, handkerchiefs, socks and even clothes from relatives of his former patients. Even when he was working in a government hospital, he used to ask for gifts from the relatives of patients and could not give up his addiction of asking for gifts.
The government could not dispute the recommendations of the Justice Mehta Commission in any way.
The Gujarat government agreed to most of the recommendations made by the Justice DA Mehta Commission in the investigation report of the Shrey Hospital and Uday Shivanand Hospital fires and simultaneously issued an action taken report, which was a bit unusual. By the time the inquiry panel comes up with suggestions, the Gujarat High Court and the Supreme Court had already directed the authorities and hospitals to implement the aspects that have now come out in the form of recommendations. While the government is already under scrutiny for strict implementation of fire safety laws, permitting BUs, ensuring that hospital buildings have proper design, enactment of new laws such as the Clinical Establishment Act etc., It was difficult for the officers to dispute any of the recommendations of the commission as they were already relied upon in the form of court orders.
no road repair
This time the rains have once again made the roads of the city miserable. While the civic body is responsible for every stretch of road damaged in the city, the distance between Gujarat University and LD Engineering College is always maintained, with potholes ensuring that university students always experience a bumpy ride. Be. Before that, it took a President’s visit for half of the section – up to the Physical Research Laboratory – to reappear, and a Prime Minister’s visit for the entire segment to revamp. Without the visits of such political dignitaries, transfers of real dignitaries, scientists of the premier institute, would mean little to the officials who pay the least attention to the damaged road.
Torn between balancing political and professional life
The elected representatives of BJP in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have been fighting on several fronts for the last fifteen days and the tension and fatigue are now visible on their faces. Senior advisors, who headed various committees in the AMC, were seen trying to fulfill their duties in the AMC and then fled to Gandhinagar to campaign for the party for the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections. “All of us have been given responsibilities to campaign for the party in the GMC elections. We have to perform our duties here and then go to Gandhinagar every day. We have been doing this for the past fortnight. In AMC we are doing our duty as elected representatives, in GMC we are doing party work but what about our own businesses and professions? We have to take care of that too as our bread and butter comes from that,” said the chairman of the civic body committee.

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