Ahmedabad, July 12 (IANS) Ahmedabad created a Guinness World Record on Sunday after the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) planted 3.61 lakh saplings using the Miyawaki method within a single hour at Bhadaj locality, marking one of the largest urban tree plantation drives undertaken in the city. The plantation was carried out across 76,000 square metres of a 91,006-square-metre site near Satvam Heights along the Gota-Godhavi Canal in Bhadaj, in the Thaltej ward of the city’s North-West Zone.A…
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Ahmedabad, July 12 (IANS) Ahmedabad’s campaign to expand its urban green cover gathered momentum on Sunday as the Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel participated in two mass tree plantation programmes under the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) Mission ‘Five Million Trees’ initiative. The leaders planted saplings at an AMC plot near Applewood as part of the campaign, which also carried the theme of creating a “Green Gandhinagar Lok Sabh…
Ahmedabad, July 12 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced a target of increasing green cover in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency to 20 per cent by the 2029 parliamentary elections and urged residents to ensure that every home is equipped with rooftop solar panels.Speaking during a mass plantation programme in Ahmedabad, HM Shah said the constituency had already increased its greenery to about 11.23 per cent and called on citizens to help nearly double that…
Ahmedabad, July 12 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated 101 Oxygen Parks across Ahmedabad and unveiled a new Heritage Park, as the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) expanded its green infrastructure under the ‘Green Lok Sabha Campaign’ and the Centre’s ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign.At the inauguration, HM Shah urged people to mark occasions such as their mother’s birthday or other auspicious days by planting a tree, saying the campaign should become a ma…
Ahmedabad, July 11 (IANS) Large stretches of barren and saline land across Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar districts are being restored and converted into green spaces under a large-scale afforestation programme that aims to plant 1.25 crore trees across the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency this year. The initiative, being undertaken under Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Gandhinagar Green Lok Sabha Project, includes the restoration of degraded land and the plantation of predominantly native tree spe…
Gandhinagar, July 10 (IANS) Gujarat will expand its indigenous ‘Van Kavach’ afforestation model to cover 1,100 hectares during 2026-27, with more than half of the new plantations concentrated in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency as part of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Green Lok Sabha initiative, according to the state Forest Department. The programme includes the development of Gujarat’s largest “Maha Van Kavach,” spanning over 100 hectares in Godhavi village near Ahmedabad.Under the wid…
Gandhinagar, July 8 (IANS) A target of planting more than 1.1 crore trees across the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency during 2026-27 has been set as part of a large-scale afforestation campaign led by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, with a mass tree-plantation drive scheduled for July 12. The campaign, to be held under the theme “Gandhinagar Lok Sabha – Green Lok Sabha”, will cover all seven Assembly segments of the constituency.Citizens have been urged to plant one sapling for each family me…
Gandhinagar, June 28 (IANS) A pilot digital platform aimed at integrating health, nutrition and education data from pregnancy through to adolescence has been launched in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, in a move the government says is intended to strengthen monitoring of maternal and child welfare outcomes through a single unified system.The initiative, named the PM-Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT), has been developed under the supervision of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit …
Gandhinagar, June 28 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched the pilot project of the PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT) in Gujarat, describing it as an integrated digital platform that would monitor the health, nutrition, education and welfare of children from pregnancy until the age of 16 years. Launching the initiative in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, HM Shah said the platform was the next step in strengthening welfare delivery for poor families.”Today, PM-FCT is, in a …
Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar, June 27 (IANS) Plans to develop 101 oxygen parks in Ahmedabad alongside a large-scale plantation drive across 308 locations in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency have been finalised as part of a wider green-cover expansion programme aimed at increasing urban greenery and public access to open green spaces. The decisions were taken during a high-level review meeting held in Ahmedabad under the chairmanship of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah.The meeting was…