Gandhinagar: Gujarat government may have to go in for major changes in the state’s land-related laws which are currently being applied for regularizing land titles – in case it wants to apply the new impact fee law, passed in the state assembly in September 2011 for legalizing illegal structures constructed on plots of land without necessary clearances. Top Sachivalaya sources said this is particularly crucial as of 15-lakh-odd illegal structures, which the law seeks to regularize, two-thirds are land related.

AHMEDABAD: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to widen the Ahmedabad-Rajkot and Bamanbore-Samakhiyali stretches of the national highway grid. NHAI has invited tenders for a technical report to make the highways six lanes wide.

Officials in NHAI said that the stretch already has four lanes and NHAI decided to increase this to six lanes. Officials said that the route from Ahmedabad to Bamanbore is common for vehicles headed to both Rajjkot and Samakhiyali. Near Bamanbore, one fork goes Rajkot and the other to Samakhiyali.

AHMEDABAD: The high rate of malaria cases in the state is a grim sign of the fight lost out to mosquitoes. Ahmedabad city has recorded 596 malaria cases in the latest weekly disease assessment of the state, the highest and has even overtaken Surat city which has recorded 543. Ahmedabad has the second highest number of falciparum cases in the state. A major reason, according to health practitioners is the relapse of malaria and falciparum cases in patients.

AHMEDABAD: The state-owned Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) plans to launch housing schemes in Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Vadodara for lower income group (LIG) and middle income group (MIG) in the next one year.

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Rajkot: The much-awaited 10.7 km pilot project of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) from Gondal Road chowkdi to Jamnagar Road chowkdi on 150-feet Ring Road is finally gaining some momentum. Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) officials have set June 2011 as the deadline for running BRTS buses on the dedicated corridor.

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Rajkot: After the successful

Rajkot: The 17-year-old tigress Radha at city

Rajkot : This sleepy Saurashtra city has found an innovative way to decongest roads. Rajkot has chosen to fall back on bicycles to tide over
traffic troubles and keep vehicular pollution under check.