Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, September 1: The findings of the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005-06 has turned out to be an eye-opener for Community Food and Nutrition Extension Unit (CFNEU) of the Health and Family Welfare department of the state government. The survey found that over 80 per cent children belonging to the age [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 26: Yogesh Mer’s (13) face lights up as Amardeep Rana (16) hands him a shining black toy radio. Yogesh, a patient in the paediatric ward of M P Shah Cancer Hospital, was paralysed 25 days ago. Amardeep (16) visited Yogesh in the antiseptic ward on Saturday afternoon and asked him if [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 24: THE crusading environmental activist from the city, Mahesh Pandya, is back from ‘Cut the Carbon’ march being held in the United Kingdom. Kicked off on July 14, the march will culminate in London on October 2 after covering 1,000 miles across the UK. The march aims to highlight the devastating [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 21:Born with clubfoot (congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes) in the small town of Viramgaon, 60 kilometres from Ahmedabad, Bhupesh Modi does not know what it is to walk without a limp. The handicap may have [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 12: Thirty-Six villages in Unjha taluka of Mehsana district are now connected through the Direct Video Assisted Redressal (DVAR)—that allows them to access their record of rights or hold a video-conference with anyone in any one of the taluka’s villages—under the ‘One Unjha Project’. This is the first time in India [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 28: TULSI Ram (15) unscrews a stabilizer and removes the battery, the circuit board from its plastic casing. His brother, Gehri Lal (12), uses hammer, chisel, his bare hands and teeth to disassemble clumps of copper wiring from a brass frame. Tulsi and Gehri are kabadiwallahs, who disassemble electrical goods and sell them [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, Jul 6: Major discrepancies have come up in regard to the condition of the regional transport offices (RTOs) in the state. In December 2005, Bangalore had almost 23 lakh vehicles on its roads, with 10 regional transport officers and 217 technical inspectors. In comparison, today, Ahmedabad has almost 30 lakh vehicles, with [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 02: In a world where size matters, it was heartening to see little ones of the Childline India Foundation take centrestage to voice their opinions and grievances with the world they will soon inherit. The Gujarat chapter of Childline recently arranged a state level children’s meet where 40 under-privileged children interacted [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 10:With Ganesh festival just two months away, idol makers of Gulbai Tekra in Gujarat are busy catering to orders for idols from as far as Hyderabad and Pune. The environmentalists, meanwhile, are crying hoarse over the violation of guidelines issued by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). This year too, the [...]