With taps running dry for years, Vatva falls back on private borewells

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, December 21 Sairaben Ahmed (name changed) glances furtively at the hosepipe snaking across the floor of the kitchen as she chops vegetables. In her ‘one room, kitchen, toilet’ tenement in Maqdum Nagar in Vatva, she is waiting for the evening supply of water. However, she is not the only person in Maqdum [...]

Renovation at AMC hassles public

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 24: Ever since repair and renovation work began at the main office of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation at Sardar Patel Bhawan in December last, people coming here to meet officials, are having a tough time. This, because 24 offices have been shifted out of the main building and flung across the city. [...]

Sabarmati earns sobriquet of most-polluted waterbody

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 23: For those of us who have grown up hearing the soulful strains of “Sabarmati ke sant tu ne kar diya kamaal”, the Sabarmati river still holds a special place. But what many don’t know is that the river on whose banks Gandhi set up his Ashram has turned into one [...]