Gujarat is extremely resistant to TB drugs

Gujarat has recorded the second highest number ofextreme drug-resistant TB since the discovery of the disease in India threeyears ago; the state has recorded the third highest number of deaths afterMaharashtra and Delhi
Thirty-four-year-old Anita Agarwal (name changed) was admitted to TB Hospital on the Civil campus in Ahmedabad. When she did not recover after six months of treatment, worried doctors tested her sputum, only to discover that she had developed third-line drug-resistant TB.

Five-yr-old wins battle with drug-resistant tuberculosis

For the first time in state, a childwith multi-drug resistant TB of spine recovered after two years of treatment

Seven-year-old Sultan Liyas Shaikh from Juhapura is the first child under 10 who has recovered completely from second-line of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) of spine in Gujarat.

Sultan has recovered completely, living like children his age: going to school, paying football with his friends and having food of his choice after two years of treatment. But it was different two years ago when at five he weighed only 10 kg.

Tweet your #passportquery

Passport applicants can now getquick replies to queries by tweeting their questions to @rpoahmedabad, RegionalPassport Office, Ahmedabad's official Twitter handle which was formed on March11

Gone are the days when you had to wait for days to receive a reply to your pass port queries. Now, all you have to do is tweet them and receive a reply within hours. Yes, t h e r e gion a l p as sport of fice, Ahmedabad, is now on twitter in an effort to serve the people in the best way possible.

Umeed Yojana scam - Two caught inflating attendance

Probe against Saath Charitable, Shanti Educational Initiative for faking number of students to gain more money

Two organisations working for the marginalised sections of society have come under AMC scanner after civic officials detected malpractice in their dealings. The vigilance department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has initiated an inquiry against two public welfare organisations -Saath Charitable and Shanti Educational Initiative (SEI) --after malpractice was found in their Umeed scheme to provide vocational training to the poor.

AMC blocks society's attempts to go green

Residentsof ICB Island Society on New SG Road sought AMC's approval to plant saplings inthe area devoid of greenery. But corporation cancelled it citing laying ofpipelines

At a time when Ahmedabad is struggling to preserve its green patches, an initiative by a group of people to make their society green gets a cold response from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

A year ago, the residents of ICB Island Society on New SG Road had sent an application to the AMC, seeking approval for planting 100 saplings in and around their society.

However, though the corporation initially supported the initiative, it backed off later.

The area surrounding the society, constructed four years ago, is devoid of greenery. Still, there has been no initiative by the AMC to create green spaces, the residents complain.

Year after Centre proposes protection panel - No green signal for plan to shield kids at station

Ahmedabad division has not implementedcentral Railway Board's plan to set up Child Protection Committee that willprovide food, shelter to kids roaming, begging at rly stations

Railway stations are among the most dangerous places for children where they often become victims of sexual harassment and drug abuse. To take special care of children, the central government had ordered all states to form Child Protection Committee (CPC) at major railway stations. It is more than a year but Ahmedabad Railway Division has not implemented it.