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	Water Conservation - Surendranagar District Gujarat India.
		During rain season 1997, Surendranagar district had more than 30 inches of rain fall.
		The trust has proposed to offer financial help to such charitable activities carried on in Surendranagar district as may be approved by the trustees.
		Even the restriction about Surendranagar - district is because of the limited resources.
	www.rashminsanghvi.com /waterconservation.htm (2552 words)

	Surendranagar - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Surendranagar is an administrative district in the state of Gujarat in India.
		The district occupies an area of 10,489 km² and has a population of 1,515,147 (as of 2001).
		Along with the district headquarters town of Surendranagar, other cities in the district include Dhrangadhra, Wadhwan, Tarnetar, Vagadia, Sayla, and Thangadh.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Surendranagar (97 words)

	Rain fury abates in state
		In Surendranagar district 10 villages of Patdi taluka were flooded as the Arevada lake developed breach due to vigorous flow of Narmada canal water in the lake.
		The villages were cut off from the rest of the district as over 8 feet of water is reported to have accumulated in the villages.
		Surendranagar district officials are coordinating relief and rescue operations in the area.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k3/july/30rain.htm (392 words)

	Surendranagar online - Explore Surendranagar city, Surendranagar district online
		Surendranagar online - Explore Surendranagar city, Surendranagar district online
		Surendranagar online for Surendranagar city, Surendranagar district, Surendranagar business Directory
		Copyright © 2005 Shivam Infotech for surendranagar online.
	www.surendranagaronline.com /surendranagar/photogallery.asp (36 words)

	SEWA - Campaigns - SEWA MEMBERBASED organisation of poor working women.
		In Surendrangar district, 80 rainwater harvesting tanks and in Banaskantha district 60 such tanks have been constructed.
		Kunvarben of Surendranagar district and Shantaben of Sabarkantha district participated in an international conference on water and sanitation, vision 21.
		Surendranagar district was selected for running local water supply by the government Water Supply Board.
	www.sewa.org /campaigns/water.asp (476 words)

	Rebuilding Hope
		One of the earliest initiatives after the earthquake was counselling and rehabilitation of children suffering from the trauma of the earthquake.
		Exposure tours: Farmers, cattle breeders, entrepreneurs, village leaders, teachers, men and women from villages of Surendranagar and Rajkot were taken to institutions, demonstration projects to orient them on approaches and technology that could be utilized in their villages.
		District level workshops were organized on the issues of NRM, livelihood.
	www.ceeindia.org /cee/reb_hope.html (1662 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gandhinagar
		Ahmedabad district is surrounded by Mehsana, Sabarkantha, and Gandhinagar districts to the north, Kheda district to the east, the Gulf of Cambay and Bhavnagar district to the south, and Surendranagar district to the west.
		Districts of Saurastra, Gujarat Bhavnagar is a peninsular district of Western Gujarat.
		Districts of Saurastra, Gujarat Rajkot is a district in the Indian state of Gujarat with the administrative headquarters of Rajkot city.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gandhinagar (4184 words)

	March 25, 2001 - March 25, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		To control illegal use of water, district magistrate A D Katara recently issued a notification warning the city residents not to connect electric motors directly to the domestic supply lines.
		SURENDRANAGAR: Residents of Surendranagar continue to reel under the aftermath of quake and spectre of impending drought.
		That the administration is insensitive is borne out by the fact that in Halvad taluka, one of the worst-hit, residents are being asked to fill up forms which solicit reply on the ownership of house, seek receipts of payment of house tax or rent receipt in case of a house being rented.
	www.gujaratplus.com /00-01archive/arc680.html (1546 words)

	Deepak Foundation - EARTHQUAKE RELIEF WORK A New Beginning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the district worst affected was Kutch, Surendranagar district too faced massive destruction.
		The area where Deepak Foundation works (Baroda District) was not affected, but the scale of destruction was such that Deepak Foundation felt it had to contribute to the rehabilitation efforts that were being undertaken.
		This village is one of the border villages of Surendranagar district and is very close to Kutch district.
	www.dfpcl.com /dfpcl/community/earthworkrelief.asp (1378 words)

	CSR : Education Initiatives of HSBC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HSBC Gijubhai Bal Academy, Patadi, Surendranagar district, Gujarat
		Helping to reinstate educational services for districts affected by the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, HSBC's work with Ganatar in the Little Raan of Kutch in Gujarat helps children go to school in an otherwise adverse economic environment of family migration to salt pans in the desert.
		HSBC has supported the construction of the HSBC Gijubhai Bal Academy at Patadi in Surendranagar district, Gujarat, which focuses on imparting education to children of salt pan workers as well as on teacher training and skills development courses for children.
	www.indianngos.com /issue/education/corporates/hsbc_reinstateeduservices.htm (94 words)

	Surendranagar in Surendranagar India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Surendranagar is the administrative headquarters of the Surendranagar District, in Gujarat.
		Situated on Rajkot-Ahmedabad main route, it is a major center of cotton trade in the state.
		Surendranagar Railway Station is a major railhead of Gujarat.
	www.india9.com /i9show/53494.htm (65 words)

	In its own home, khadi spins out of fashion
		Surendranagar: A few kilometres off the busy Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway, Kotharia, known for its weavers, lives life at its own pace.
		For, the weavers, who are voters in the Surendranagar (SC) constituency, have to also battle caste bias that manifests itself in job opportunities that are denied or segregation at work place.
		Thousands of weavers in Surendranagar district used to account for about 80 per cent of khadi sold through various outlets in Gujarat for decades.
	www.expressindia.com /election/fullestory.php?type=ie&content_id=44989 (787 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Ahmedabad, Feb. 10: A 30-year-old man, driven by family feud and debt, yesterday stabbed his wife and two minor daughters to death in Surendranagar district.
		The incident is a chilling follow-up to Thursday’s deaths, when Salim Ghulam Hussain Sheikh threw his five daughters into the Narmada in Bharuch district.
		Speaking on Chamar’s case, Surendranagar district police suprintendent V.J. Gautam said “multiple causes’’ seem to have led Chamar to kill his 28-year-old wife Lila and daughters — Parul, 6, and Raju, 3.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040211/asp/nation/story_2883290.asp (225 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dholka
		It is located in Ahmedabad District of Gujarat state.
		Dholka is also known for Jain Temple Kalikund Tirth, and every year lots of Jain families visit this Temple.
		Dholka is a city and a municipality in Ahmadabad district in the state of Gujarat, India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dholka (425 words)

	INDIA: Discrimination against Dalits in Gujarat
		The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Dalit teachers were transferred from Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India, on 3 December 2003, for objecting to the segregation of upper and lower caste students during the lunch meal.
		They were released the next day on bail, whereupon they held a protest outside the district primary education officer's (DPEO) office, demanding that the teachers be transferred, or they would not send their children to the school.
		District Development Officer Mona Kandhar admitted she was "aware of the case" but said she got the complaint only after the no-confidence motion had been moved.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2004/602 (1253 words)

	Narmada water all over, but Gujarat is still thirsty-Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SURENDRANAGAR: After stoically coping with droughts and water shortages for nearly two decades, Ramaben and other residents of this area are up in arms.
		Surendranagar, about 135 km west of state capital Gandhinagar and situated in the perennially water-deficient region of Saurashtra, is a town that has fallen through the cracks of the Narmada project that successive governments have trumpeted as the “lifeline of Gujarat”;.
		Haat, a hamlet located five km from Surendranagar, has only one source of water — a water tank that is filled with water leaking from a pipeline running to nearby Muli town.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=45998734 (659 words)

	Limbdi's jobless mill workers caught in limbo
		The only hope for these people -- most of whom are educated up to matriculation -- is the district and the state administration which they believe can restart the mill.
		The employees on their part gave a memorandum to the sub-divisional magistrate some days back and had again gone to meet the authorities at Surendranagar on Monday.
		An autorickshaw driver, Bharatbhai, who is now bearing the burden of the families of his four unemployed brothers, related,``The mill has been closed on paper for the last seven months.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981209/34351194.html (528 words)

	Quick Response Report #135 - We Want Work": Rural Women in the Gujarat Drought and Earthquake"
		The study was conducted in the district of Surendranagar, located west of Ahmedabad and southeast of Kutch.
		Surendranagar was identified by the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team as one of the four worst-affected regions, in which loss of life was relatively low (112) but damage widespread (661 villages were affected; 29,500 houses destroyed).
		Though no data were collected on the point, the field team reported their sense that Surendranagar women were "thinking positively" and focused on the future, and that close living quarters and mutual aid appeared to have increased solidarity across caste lines, between women and men, and among extended families brought together by the quake.
	www.colorado.edu /hazards/research/qr/qr135/qr135.html (8967 words)

	Rebuilding concerns
		According to the government's progress report (for the period until the first week of December 2001), of a total number of 45,000 houses that needed to be rebuilt in Rajkot district, about 24,000 are at various stages of completion.
		In Surendranagar district, from a total of 26,151 houses that needed to be rebuilt, 9,137 are nearing completion.
		The principal sources of livelihood in the affected districts are industry and agriculture.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1902/19020460.htm (905 words)

	People trickling back home
		At the same time, the administration in the 15 worst-affected talukas would now be treated as stand-alone districts to speedily tackle relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction work.
		The worst-hit talukas are Bhuj, Bhachau, Anjar, Rapar and Kandla-Gandhidham, all in Kutch district, Jodiya in Jamnagar district, Wankaner, Morbi and Maliya in Rajkot district, Halvad, Patdi and Dhrangdhra in Surendranagar district, Santalpur in Patan district and Daskroi and Ahmedabad city taluka in Ahmedabad district.
		The Cabinet has decided to cancel the Budget session of the State Assembly, which was originally slated to begin on February 20, and convene the House for a short period only for adopting a vote on account for four months.
	www.blonnet.com /businessline/2001/02/07/stories/140760gh.htm (410 words)

	Surendranagar
		Surendranagar situated between 22º 43'N Latitude and 71º 43'E Longitude can be rightly termed as gateway to Saurashtra.
		Also called the Wadhwan city, it is now a major trade and processing centre for agricultural products, soap, glass, cotton, salt, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and plastics, textile bearings, ceramics and sanitaryware.
		A travel agent who informs you of various tourism options is the best travel agent.
	www.mapsofindia.com /maps/gujarat/districts/surendranagar.htm (231 words)

	July 27, 2001 - July 27, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		The widow who has no other source of support for herself of for her children pleaded to the deputy district collector of Wadhwan for compensation.
		However, her request was rejected by the authorities, saying that her husband did not die of "...collapsing of buildings due to earthquake or by getting buried under the rubble.
		The case was then referred by the authorities in Surendranagar to the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority in Ahmedabad for directing action.
	www.gujaratplus.com /00-01archive/arc394.html (1903 words)

	Welcome to Gujarat Red Cross (Site not responding. Last check: )
		More over Bihar State and Surendranagar District Branch had created 3 bore in the same village.
		Gujarat State Branch and Surendranagar District Branch with joint efforts had distributed relief items like clothes and carpets etc. to the affected persons.
		In continuation of this IFRC and district branch has imparted Community Based first Aid and Disaster Preparedness training to Red Cross Volunteers in 5 Talukas of the district.
	www.redcrossgujarat.org /surendranagar.html (224 words)

	No relief in sight for Rajkot drought camp workers-Ahmedabad-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RAJKOT: Bhikha Rama, a resident of Ori village in Surendranagar district, was in for a shock when he received his weekly wage at a drought relief work site.
		Summer may not have peaked yet, but about 20 per cent of the rural population in the drought-hit areas of Rajkot and Surendranagar districts has already started working in relief camps.
		The district administration officials expect the figure to cross the 75,000-mark by mid-May. The situation is similar in Surendranagar district too.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=42905056 (760 words)

	4 March 2000 : Authorities gear up to handle water crisis
		SURENDRANAGAR: 25 villages of Surendranagar district are being provided drinking water through water tankers.
		Owing to scanty monsoon and lurking famine conditions in 378 villages of the district, the district administration has prepared a master plan worth Rs.1497.25 lakh and sent it for the sanction of the state government.
		He added that out of 56 villages, 8 bores in 4 villages were successfully carried out, 12 DTH bores in 12 villages have been successful; 13 rural water supply schemes have been revived and 50 handpumps were repaired so far.
	www.narmada.org /archive/toi/mar00/04mahm9.htm (284 words)

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