Jamnagar News – About Transport Nagars from Gujarat Government

Officials say it will cut traffic in cities and connect peripheral areas better.

The Gujarat state government has decided to establish huge transport nagars in all eight municipal corporations to establish connectivity in the peripheral regions of the cities and ease traffic congestion in cities.

These transport nagars will come up in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Gandhinagar on Public Private Partnership (PPP) models.

Anticipating growth of major urbanized areas and keeping in view the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), the state government has asked the municipal corporations and all urban development authorities to identify land for the purpose.

Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA) has already reserved 78.5 hectares of land for setting up of a transport nagar on PPP model.

“In principle, approval has already been given for Vadodara and Jamnagar cities.The government has ordered a detailed master plan for the transport nagar in Vadodara to be made by a consultant.’’

“Process for identifying suitable land in Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot is under way. Once that is done, bidding and other processes will be initiated. These transport nagars will cut down traffic in cities and help organize transport-related activities.”

Sainik School Balachadi Jamnagar Gujarat - celebrates golden jubilee year

Few days ago, Sainik School Balachadi Jamnagar Gujarat celebrated the culmination ceremony of its Golden Jubilee.

It was founded on July 8, 1961, and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.

It is the only institute of its kind in Gujarat to provide top quality public education to all sections of the society and is a feeder institute to the Khadakvasla.

Education minister Ramanlal Vora was the chief guest.

Vasuben Trivedi, minister of state for higher and technical education, women and child development, was the guest of honor at the valedictory function held at Balachadi.

Jamnagar Air Force Station Gujarat - Indo-Oman air exercise begins

Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) and Indian Air Force are engaged in a joint exercise - 'Eastern Bridge-2011'- at the Air Force School Jamnagar to expose the aircrew of the two air forces to long duration sorties with in flight refueling, large force strike packages, air to ground bombing and maritime strike roles.

The exercise, which began on Monday and will conclude on Friday, is the second of the series between the air forces of the two countries and involves a variety of flying missions from each other's best practices in terms of operational, maintenance and administrative procedures.