Charankha (Patan): Gandhinagar residents will soon get a chance to become green entrepreneurs. For, they will be able to rent out their roof tops to solar power generation companies, who will pay them on the number of units generated.

In the first phase, panels will be installed on atop 50 government building and around 200 households to generate 5 MW solar power. The state government also plans to develop Gandhinagar as India’s model solar city.

First 100% Solar Building In Gujarat To Be Opened Today

Gandhinagar: If you believe that solar energy is good enough only to cook rice in solar cooker or heat water as solar water heaters, you need to look further. Solar energy can also provide you the muchneeded respite from heat by running air conditioners (ACs).For the first time, all 40 air conditioners in the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)’s new building will run on solar energy. The building will be inaugurated today.

GANDHINAGAR: The state government is now preparing a final draft plan to install water meters in the state capital. The move came after the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) asked the state government to install water meters in the government quarters.

Sources said that a study by Asian Development Bank has revealed that the state capital's water per capita water consumption is the highest among 20 major cities in the country.

AHMEDABAD: The city has over 30 lakh vehicles, which include 20 lakh two-wheelers. This is 22 per cent of the total vehicles registered in Gujarat, the state assembly on Thursday was informed by urban development minister Nitin Patel in his reply to Naroda MLA Mayaben Kodnani's question.

The minister said that to ease off congestion on the city roads, the government has taken measures like Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) and Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Metro project.

Will Ply Between Gandhinagar, Chandkheda

The double decker bus to be introduced in Gandhinagar will have a seating capacity of 75 and will run on Euro-IV diesel engine which costs Rs 38 lakh. “This is environmentally safe and has less emission,” claims Dhodhiya.

Public Roads, Govt Land Will Suffice, Says Metrolink
Ahmedabad: The fact that land acquisition has become a sensitive issue across India has apparently handed the state government a new tool to market its prized metro rail project linking Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The Gujarat government is now touting it as ‘zero land acquisition project’.

Signs MoU with the State in the presence of Narendra Modi

After Tata Motors, American multi-nation company Ford Motors will set up a car manufacturing unit at Sanand near here at a cost of about Rs.4,000 crore.

To be set up on 460 acres next to the Tatas' Nano plant, the Ford unit, the second in the country after its Chennai plant, will initially have the capacity to roll out 2.40 lakh cars and 2.70 lakh engines annually and is expected to create about 5,000 jobs.

AHMEDABAD: If Ahmedabad has problems maintaining its trees, here is what it can learn from Gandhinagar city to save them.

AHMEDABAD: The way is now being paved for the much awaited Rs 12,000 crore Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro project.

The Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) has directed the civic and urban development bodies of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar not to clear any new projects in the 150 meter radius along the Metro route -APMC Vasna to Gandhinagar and from Thaltej to Kalupur.

The GUDC has in a le

Mahuva (Bhavnagar): As their pleas have gone unheard even after nearly two-and-a-half years, around 5,000 farmers protesting against the proposed cement plant by Nirma will march to Gandhinagar on March 3.
Mahuva BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria, who has been spearheading the agitation, says that farmers from the villages to be affected by the plant will walk from Doliya village to Gandhinagar, 350 km a