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<ul><li>The <keyword id="6370685" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gujarat-government">Gujarat government</keyword>, here on Wednesday, announced the decision to allow colleges and universities to conduct <keyword id="9496137" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="final-year-examinations">final year examinations</keyword>.</li><li>Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said, "The SP University and the Teacher's University conducted examinations last week. The GTU has announced examination dates. Gradually, other universities and colleges in the state will also conduct final year examinations."</li><li>In the current situation no examinations be conducted and all students should be mass promoted, Paresh Dhanani, Leader of the Opposition, told IANS.</li></ul>The Gujarat government, here on Wednesday, announced the decision to allow colleges and universities to conduct final year examinations. The Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has already declared dates for examinations, which will start from Thursday. However, the Congress has opposed the cabinet decision. Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said, "The SP University and the Teacher's University conducted examinations last week. The GTU has announced examination dates. Gradually, other universities and colleges in the state will also conduct final year examinations." He said the GTU had conducted an opinion poll on it's website on holding of examinations. Around 54,000 students replied in affirmative as they wanted to move on, get the certificates for jobs or pursue higher education. Only 900 students opposed holding of examinations, he added. The GTU would conduct examinations while maintaining social distancing, use of masks and sanitizers, and by making other arrangements across its 350 centres, Chudasama said. The GTU has given the students three options -- the classroom examinations that will begin on Thursday, online examinations, and special examinations to be held on improvement in <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> situation. The students living in containment zones or those who are not willing to take classroom examinations can either go for online examinations or special examinations, the dates for which will be announced later. The online examinations will be held from July 21, as declared by the GTU earlier. However, the Congress has opposed the decision to conduct examinations and have demanded that the students be mass promoted. "The corona crisis in Gujarat is out of control. More than 32,000 people have been infected and over 1,800 lost their lives. At such a time, <keyword id="6240601" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-University-Grants-Commission">the University Grants Commission</keyword> (UGC) and various other committees, set up in different universities and colleges, recommended cancellation of all examinations and a merit-based progression. Despite this, the GTU has gone ahead. This is playing with the lives of students," said Amit Chavda, Gujarat Congress president. In the current situation no examinations be conducted and all students should be mass promoted, Paresh Dhanani, Leader of the Opposition, told IANS.

Gujarat government decides to allow final year examinations

IT services and consultancy major <keyword id="6357585" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tata-consultancy-services" source="Orion">Tata Consultancy Services</keyword> (TCS) has partnered with Gujarat's Samagra Shiksha, <keyword id="14252886" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gujarat-council-of-school-education" source="Orion">Gujarat Council of School Education</keyword> to train school students as well as teachers in new-age <keyword id="1458566" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="digital-skills" source="Orion">digital skills</keyword> such as computational and design thinking. According to a statement by TCS on Tuesday, TCS' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program will bring the company's flagship global initiatives - Ignite My Future and goIT - to students and teachers in Gujarat, helping build the next generation of thinkers and innovators. TCS' Ignite My Future program is a pioneering effort to empower educators around the world through a unique approach that integrates computational thinking into core subjects like math, science, literacy, social studies, and arts. The initiatives align with the National Education Policy (NEP 2020), and look to inculcate global citizenship in students, building empathy towards critical issues in society and opening their minds to become problem solvers. In addition, it aims to build awareness among students and prepare them for the new digital economy, the statement said. "We are glad to be part of an initiative that works to add value to a student's education and help them build digital skills. The collaboration with the <keyword id="6370685" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gujarat-government" source="Orion">Gujarat government</keyword> is part of our larger vision to empower people and communities. Our flagship programs - TCS Ignite My Future and goIT will be made available to 14,486 schools across Gujarat," Balaji Ganapathy, Global Head, of Corporate Social Responsibility, at TCS, was quoted in the statement. "Through this teaching-learning process, we look forward to providing regional, national, and global platforms for teachers and students to showcase some of their notable efforts in their journey of computational thinking and design thinking. We are also looking to identify and build an expert team of teachers for the State Education Department to use as a resource team for the future," Balaji Ganapathy added. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/tata-motors-to-hike-prices-of-commercial-vehicles-by-up-to-2-from-january/articleshow/96193372.cms" style="">Tata Motors to hike prices of commercial vehicles by up to 2% from January</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/five-women-newsmakers-in-2022-in-india-droupadi-murmu-madhabi-puri-buch-samantha-ruth-prabhu-in-the-list/slidelist/96191677.cms" style="">Droupadi Murmu, Madhabi Puri Buch, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and more: Five women newsmakers of 2022</a>

TCS partners with Gujarat government to impart digital skills in schools

<keyword id="6356847" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="gandhinagar">Gandhinagar</keyword>, The <keyword id="6370685" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gujarat-government">Gujarat government</keyword> on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the private infrastructure company, <keyword id="10640651" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Adani-Port-SEZ-ltd">Adani Port &amp; SEZ Ltd</keyword>., to setup the country's largest multi-modal <keyword id="406927" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="logistics-park">logistics park</keyword> at Sanand with an estimated investment of ₹50,000 crore. The proposed 1,450 acre park will have a dedicated air cargo complex with 4.6 km long runway to handle even large sized cargo aircraft and will offer direct air, rail and road connectivity. It will also have a provision of direct rail connectivity with dedicated freight corridor which is part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). It will have potential to generate direct and indirect employment for 25,000 persons. According to the state government, the project will be completed in a phased manner in three years as the work will commence within six months after obtaining required clearances and permissions. There will be a 90 lakh sq ft warehouse zone with facilities such as air freight station, grade-A warehouse, cold storage among others in the park. The warehouse will have 38 lakh sq ft space for textile, bulk, e-commerce, nine lakh sq ft space for bonder warehouse, four lakh grade-A palatized facility and 60,000 temperature controlled palletized facility. Against 3.3 lakh capacity, a container yard in this park will have four handling lines with TEU (twenty ft equivalents). The park will have three lakh square feet of space for business and skill development centre. The Central government has sanctioned ₹2 lakh crore for setting up of multi-modal mega logistics parks in 34 cities of the country. Cities like Vijayawada, Chennai, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Surat, Hyderabad and Gauhati are selected among others. Six cities of Gujarat are selected, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat,Bharuch, Valsad and Kandla, where these projects will be set up on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. 60 per cent of the cargo in the country is transferred via road. The transportation cost is 14% of the GDP in the country, which the Central government wants to bring down to 7%. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/youtube-starts-rolling-out-hashtag-landing-pages-heres-how-you-can-use-it/articleshow/80401578.cms">YouTube starts rolling out hashtag landing pages⁠— here’s how you can use it</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/heres-how-indians-are-buying-tesla-facebook-and-apple-shares-through-brokerage-startups/articleshow/80403004.cms">Here’s how Indians are buying Tesla, Facebook, and Apple shares through brokerage startups</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/how-to-check-allotment-status-of-indian-railway-finance-corporation-irfc-ipo/articleshow/80406208.cms">Indian Railway Finance Corporation IPO allotment: Here’s how to check share allotment status</a>

Gujarat government signs pact with Adani Port to setup largest multi-modal logistics park

<keyword id="2934282" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gujarat-Food-and-Drug-Control-Authority">Gujarat Food and Drug Control Authority</keyword> (FDCA) on Monday said it removed the ban on the sale of <keyword id="75190" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nestle">Nestle</keyword> India’s ‘<keyword id="6369404" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Maggi">Maggi</keyword>’ noodles after the <keyword id="48485" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bombay-high-court">Bombay High Court</keyword> lifted the nationwide ban on it in August. 

	“FDCA had lifted the ban on Maggi in Gujarat after the Bombay High Court passed an order to lift the ban across India. We took the decision based on the court order,” Gujarat FDCA Commissioner H G Koshia said. 
 The <keyword id="6370685" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gujarat-Government">Gujarat government</keyword> had banned the sale of Maggi for a month in June this year after the lead and monosodium glutamate levels in the noodles were found to be above the prescribed limits. Later, the ban was subsequently extended till September. However, the Gujarat FDCA revoked the ban mid-way in August following court order. On August 13, the Bombay High Court had lifted the nationwide ban imposed by Indian food regulators on Maggi noodles, and asked its manufacturer Nestle India Pvt Ltd to go for a fresh test of samples in three independent laboratories across India. 

	But Maggi is still not available in Gujarat markets, as the company is following court order to get its samples tested from three approved laboratories. The state government had in the first week of June banned Maggi sale in the state after the product failed the food safety test. The government had also asked the company to withdraw all its stock of Maggi from the state. 
 

	At that time, the government claimed that all 27 samples collected from different parts of the state had failed the tests, as lead content was found above the prescribed limit in 14 samples while monosodium glutamate, which should not be there at all, was found in all the samples. 
 

	Nestle India had on Friday said that all samples of Maggi have cleared tests conducted by three laboratories, as mandated by Bombay High Court, paving the way for the instant noodles brand to be back in the market after it was banned over the presence of excess lead. The company said it will now commence manufacturing and will sell “only after the newly manufactured products are also cleared by the designated three laboratories”. 
	 
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Gujarat government lifts ban on sale of Maggi noodles on Bombay HC's order

State-owned <keyword id="77463" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="power-finance-corporation" source="Orion">Power Finance Corporation</keyword> has inked an initial pact with the <keyword id="6354766" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gujarat" source="Orion">Gujarat</keyword> government to provide comprehensive financial backing for the state's <keyword id="6380509" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="generation" source="Orion">generation</keyword>, <keyword id="67884" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="transmission" source="Orion">transmission</keyword>, and distribution projects. Power Finance Corporation (PFC) signed an <keyword id="6368586" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mou" source="Orion">MoU</keyword> with the government of Gujarat on January 3, 2024, according to a company statement issued on Wednesday. The MoU was signed by Parminder Chopra, CMD PFC and Jai Prakash Shivhare, MD (GUVNL) in the presence of Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat. The chief objective of this MoU is to provide comprehensive financial backing for the state's generation, transmission, and distribution projects. The MoU, signed in Gandhinagar, marks a significant step towards bolstering various projects undertaken by the Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL), Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited (GSECL), Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Ltd (GETCO), Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (DGVCL), Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (MGVCL), Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (PGVCL), and Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (UGVCL). The collaboration is set to facilitate long-term debt and other critical funding necessities vital for executing these diverse projects. Under the terms of the MoU, the envisaged financial assistance stands at an impressive Rs 25,000 crore, dedicated to powering up various projects across Gujarat, it stated. This substantial financial commitment underscores PFC's steadfast commitment to bolstering the power infrastructure in the region and supporting the state's ambitious initiatives in the power sector. Apart from facilitating the expansion of power infrastructure, the MoU shall also help create employment generation of up to 10,000 in Gujarat.

Power Finance Corp commits Rs 25,000 cr for power sector projects in Gujarat

Soon, schoolchildren in Gujarat may read about Reliance Group founder, <keyword id="6418409" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dhirubhai-Ambani">Dhirubhai Ambani</keyword>, as the state government is planning to introduce chapters on the industrialist in textbooks. 
 
During a meeting of education department to discuss changes in school syllabus, the government showed keenness to include lessons on the Gujarat-based industrialist, Jnanpith award-winning Gujarati writers Umashankar Joshi and Pannalal Patel. 
 
While talking to Economic Times, Gujarat education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said, “No concrete decision in this regard has been taken. I shall not be able to say anything more on this.” 
 
However, a source told the financial daily that the roadmap for introducing the chapters was not prepared yet and it would take some time before the final call. 
 It is noteworthy that the Ambanis have always been close to <keyword id="6370685" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gujarat-Government">Gujarat government</keyword> and Mukesh and Anil Ambani share a warm relationship with Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>. 
 
(Image: Indiatimes)

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NEW DELHI: <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> and BJP on Monday squabbled over the criterion used by the <keyword id="2044493" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi-government-in-Gujarat">Narendra Modi government in Gujarat</keyword> to define poor. 
 Latching on to a December 2013 circular on <keyword id="6370685" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Gujarat-Government">Gujarat government</keyword>’s website which said only those with daily earning of less then Rs 10.80 would be eligible for a subsidized foodgrain scheme meant for the poor, Congress spokesperson <keyword id="50339" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Ajay-Maken">Ajay Maken</keyword> recalled that BJP’s PM candidate had made a huge hue and cry when Planning Commission pegged the poverty line at Rs 32 a day and had termed it a "joke". "If Rs 32 was a joke, then what is Rs 10.80," Maken asked, adding, "<keyword id="6354642" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Modi">Modi</keyword> should apologize to the poor for insulting them and making a mockery of poverty." 
 The retaliation from both BJP and <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword> was swift. They rejected Congress’s charge and said the <keyword id="51011" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="state-government">state government</keyword>’s circular was based on the "instructions" issued by Planning Commission in 2004 and which it refused to change despite pleas from the Modi government. 
 "Planning Commission guidelines to states in 2004 say poverty criteria for Gujarat is Rs 324 per capita for rural areas and Rs 501 for urban areas. These instructions still hold good," Gujarat <keyword id="6355261" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Finance-minister">finance minister</keyword> Nitin Patel said. "Gujarat government neither has the authority to decide the limit for poverty line, nor has it done so," he added. 
 
Patel stressed that since the Gujarat government found the "income limit" drawn by the panel "too little" which would have left out most poor families, it uses the list prepared by its own rural development department to identify beneficiaries of anti-poverty schemes. As a result, the number of beneficiaries stood at 32 lakh as against the 21 lakh which could have qualified if the Planning Commission’s line had been used as the sole benchmark, he said. 
 While insisting that Gujarat government could not have done away with the Rs 10.80 a day drawn up by the plan panel, Patel emphasized that Gujarat had repeatedly asked the Centre to redraw the norms, with Modi himself raising the matter at the <keyword id="131585" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="National-Development-Council">National Development Council</keyword> meeting in December 2011. 
 
At the heart of the controversy is the non-revision of Planning Commission’s "poverty line" since it was drawn in 2004. The much-maligned Tendulkar panel was supposed to rework the criterion, but its recommendations -- Rs 27.20 for rural areas and Rs 33.30 for urban ones -- were junked following public outcry. 
 
A fresh panel under chairman of PM’s Economic Advisory Council C Rangarajan was set up to work out a new yardstick, but it is yet to submit its recommendations. 
 
However, Maken defended the Planning Commission, saying the panel had clarified in 2011 that its poverty line had nothing to do with eligibility of beneficiaries for welfare schemes which would be determined by socio-economic caste census based on deprivation parameters of households. 
 
However, Gujarat finance minister Patel said the state government had no option but to continue with the norms drawn by the plan panel. On the December circular, he said, "It neither fixes any new income limit nor decides any new policies. It is only a clarification issued to field officers that any family which comes in either of the criteria has to be given BPL card." He further said the circular made it clear that no income criterion will be applied in the case of those figuring on the BPL list of rural development department. 
 
"An income criteria has to be applied only for families which are not figuring in the BPL list of the rural development department," Patel said. 
 
"We are following Planning Commission criteria of January 2004. According to the same order, for Delhi where Congress ruled for last 15 years, criteria for identifying BPL families is Rs 369.69 (rural) and Rs 541.48 (urban). For Congress ruled Andhra Pradesh, it’s Rs 263.62 and Rs 484.98, respectively," he said.

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