Jamnagar Refinery City News Samachar Gujarat India

Having provided 169 personnel to guard Infosys Technologies and the Electronics City in Bangalore, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is set to depute its personnel to secure Reliance Jamnagar Refinery, Wipro in Bangalore and Infosys Mysore campus.

A security audit of these three establishments has been done and CISF and is now finalizing details like the number of personnel to be deputed. Sources said CISF estimated a need for 200 personnel for Jamnagar but the Home Ministry is said to have asked it to scale this down.

The 101 personnel deployed at Infosys in Bangalore bring in Rs 2.56 crore as annual revenue to the force. Although its earnings vary, depending upon the overall threat perception, CISF is looking at revenue in the range of Rs 8-10 crore following the deployment of close to 400 personnel in these three establishments.

Significantly, the force is likely to turn down a request by the Essar Group which recently sought CISF cover to secure its 267-km-long pipeline which connects its iron ore plant at Bailadila in Chhattisgarh to its pelletization plant at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and carries iron ore slurry.

“This pipeline has been attacked by Naxalites several times. It runs through thick forest areas of Chhattisgarh and securing it along its entire length is not a very feasible idea since that would entail the deployment of a very large contingent,” said a top CISF official. Having received 107 requests for security cover from private companies, CISF currently has put 33 firms on its priority list where it plans to deploy personnel.

Jamnagar Ahmedabad Vadodara City gets Tata Docomo Gujarat News

Tata Docomo has announced the launch of its GSM mobile services across the state of Gujarat starting today. The service has started in all areas of the state except for Ahmedabad City, Baroda City (Vadodara) and Jamnagar City. The official announcement is yet to be made.

However, the official Tata Docomo Twitter account has tweeted about this news.

The Tata Docomo website has also added "Gujarat" to its list of circles and has given tariff and other details for future consumers of Tata Docomo across the state. Tata Docomo now joins the likes of BSNL, Reliance (GSM and CDMA), Airtel, Tata Indicom (CDMA), Idea Cellular, and Vodafone who are already big players in the state.

To keep it simple, Tata Docomo's tariff plans in Gujarat are the same as that offered in the other circles where it operates. The plans include the Tata Docomo life time prepaid card priced at Rs. 49 and the "pay as you go" scheme, with a pulse of one second, and a charge of 1 paisa per second.

Medical Colleges Gujarat – Jamnagar Ahmedabad Vadodara Surat Rajkot Bhavnagar City News

The Medical Council of India has gifted wannabe doctors of Gujarat with 290 more seats for post-graduate medical courses. Nationwide, the seat increase is 3,791.

The change is effective from the academic year 2010-11. This jump in seats is attributed to a new set of rules introduced by MCI recently where every professor can take care of two students. Earlier, one professor was limited to one student.

This has effectively doubled the capacity. Correspondingly, the number of PG seats has jumped to 18,000.

The primary beneficiaries of this seat increase will be government-run medical colleges like B J Medical College Ahmedabad and NHL Municipal Medical College Ahmedabad, Vadodara Medical College, Surat Municipal Medical College, Bhavnagar Medical College, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Medical Colleage Rajkot City and Jamnagar Medical College.

Nationwide, Andhra Pradesh has bagged the most seats with 611, followed by Maharashtra (476).

Gujarat is at No.6 with 290 seats. "Students hailing from poor economic backgrounds will benefit from this increase. Now, deserving students can get admission without having to worry about exorbitant capitation fees. The students will no longer need to contend with hefty fee structure of private colleges," said Ketan Desai, president of MCI.