Following the depression in Arabian Sea, region of South Gujarat including navsari started receiving light rain with high intensity winds.
Electricity supply was disturbed in many places and efforts were immediately made to prevent loss of life due to exposed wires and also to restore power.
Falling of trees due to high velocity winds were reported across the district.Teams have been working since early morning to clear roads of fallen trees and restore normalcy.
incidents of blowing off of roofs were reported from Vansda, Chikhli and gandevi.
All members of public are requested to inform any incidents of fallen trees,fallen or exposed electric lines and damaged buildings to the Disaster Control room which is operational 24x7 at Collector Office.ph.02637-259401
All field staff including sub-divisional magistrates,mamlatdars,panchayat,police, roads and building department and forest officials are on high alert.
After regular training and guidance from professional experts,prisoners of navsari subjail were able to perform yoga as per common minimum protocol of central government AYUSH department.
As public are becoming more health conscious,food habits of our forefathers are again becoming fashionable.
Nagli biscuits are a much healthier alternative to fat rich cookies and biscuits.
Self Help Groups of the rural development department and Van Mandlis of the forest department in navsari make them and Disteict Administration has taken up the cudgels to promote the product as well as to enable the women to add value to the product in terms of packaging and optimisation of nutritional value.
An input was also received from Gandevi Taluka Primary Education Officer and others in education department during shala praveshotsav that as Mid Day Meal is served at noon,by 4 p.m children get hungry and there is a need to include a nutritious snack in the evening.
A decision has been taken to introduce nagli biscuit phasewise in navsari schools for this purpose.
The response to the biscuits distributed during shala pravesotsav was very positive.Children just loved it.It combines nutrition with taste.
Education department officials opined that children tend to go hungry or buy cheap junk food from the market to satiate their hunger in the evenings as school runs till 5 p.m
Nagli Biscuit Project gives benefit to the nagli farmer in terms of growing demand, many of whom are moving away from growing the crop due to low demand.Self Help Groups making the biscuit are also benefited.The end consumer benefits due to nutritional value.
It is a WIN-WIN formula where all stakeholdera end up winning.
In navsari,we have taken the first step and plan to rejuvenate the demand for the crop through the Nagli Biscuit Project.
On behalf of District Administration,Navsari,I congratulate Priyam and convey our best wishes to him and also to his parents.I received a message from his mother which reads as follows.
'Priyam Kamble, a nine years (9 years) old Indian origin child has become the winner of National Writing Competition in UK. Priyam Kamble has received a Young Writers 2015 creativity award. This is a National (UK) Merit Award for talent for Writing. Priyam’s written piece has been selected to be published UK wide. This is truly a remarkable and amazing achievement at such young age.
Having work published nationally in UK for an Indian origin child at such young age is something outstanding achievement and a matter of great pride for entire India. This creative writing competition was conducted UK wide. From more than twenty thousand primary schools, over twenty six lakhs (26 lakhs) children of age group between seven years to eleven years took part in the competition. Priyam has truly made his roots proud.
It is such a great honour for the parents for their son's original piece of creative writing is selected for publication in a young writer Anthology at just age of 9 years. The book will be published on 30th September 2015. It is understood that the book will be available for online purchase on Amazon worldwide and online purchase form the publishers website for worldwide readers.'
Congratulations and best wishes,dear priyam.
Bringing in a major change this time, the Gujarat education department has decided to focus on the ‘lowest grade’ schools along with maximum dropout rates during the six-day state-wide annual enrolment drive — Praveshotsav and Kanya Kelavani. The drive is scheduled in two phases — June 11, 12 and 13 for rural areas followed by June 18, 19 and 20 for schools in urban areas.
This year, the department has planned to restrict the freedom from the senior most officials and ministers to choose the talukas or districts to be visited during this drive on their own. Linking the annual evaluation exercise, Gunotsav, of all government schools with the enrolment drive — Praveshotsav and Kanya Kelavani, the department has listed out the lowest grade schools (grade C and D) rated under Gunotsav which would be assigned to the senior most ministers and officials, irrespective of the department or area they are posted in.
Various essential items such as tricycles,educational kits,wheelchairs and hearing aids were distributed as a collaborative effort of tribal development department,andhajan mandal,Institute of Technology and district administration in navsari district.
From 1/5/2015 to 15/5/2015, a cleanliness campaign was conducted by Navsari sub-jail involving all the inmates.
All important landmarks of the city such as lunsikui,statues of important leaders,fountain and the heritage site of Dandi were covered in this thorough campaign
