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GIFT City/New Delhi: Off the National Highway 8 that connects Ahmedabad with Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar, a handful of tall, shiny buildings tower over the smaller settlements along the highway.
These skyscrapers are part of the Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City, the country’s first business district housing an International Finance Service Centre (IFSC) and special economic zone for domestic and international financial services.
The city, built on the banks of the Sabarmati river, was planned across 886 acres and 62 million square feet, with an aim to create 5 lakh direct jobs when complete. The city was going to be India’s attempt to capture business from financial services hubs like Singapore and London by offering investors various incentives to conduct their foreign financial transactions in this hub.
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BHUBANESWAR: The government on Monday decided to press Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) to tackle the raging forest fire while constituting a nine-member task force led by former principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF) Sandip Tripathy to bring innovations to check future fires.
“The chief minister had directed to engage ODRAF all over the state to assist in forest fire mitigation. The government will take a call as to when their services will be used,” said Tripathy, who is the chairman of the newly formed task force.
The other members of the task force are current PCCF Jitendra Kumar, PPCF (wildlife) Sashi Paul, director general, Forest Survey of India (FSI) Pankaj Agrawal, representative of director general of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), head of forest and ecology, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, P K Mallik, chief executive officer, Odisha Space Application Centre (ORSAC), J K Panigrahi, secretary, Odisha Envi