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Greetings from GCCI! Our attempt has always been to keep you updated of our activities and
sharing events and trend of business world. Hence, this and more in this issue of E-News Letter.
Gujarat gives logistics sector “Industry Status” which creates vast potential
for the development of logistic sector in Gujarat State.
Government, industry and people of our country will have to live with rising crude prices, expensive credit and currency movement. Everyone, has to readjust to this till it returns to normal.
We successfully organised a meeting of various NGOs and Association with our M.P. to discuss long pending issues of free hold land and transfer fees.
Rising trade deficit still remaining a concern prevailing on account of swelling of crude import bill due to rising global process and higher gold import which has further added pressure on Indian Rupee.
Our representation to DPT to utilise Oil Jetty no. 5 for the handling of chemicals resulted in to quick positive response in the form of “Trade Notice” by DPT giving consent for handling of Non-POL Chemical at Oil Jetty No. 5.
A full – blown trade war would have serious effects on global economic growth and stability and there would be no winners of such a scenario.
Exemption of IGST for exporters extended till March 31st next year as Government’s E-Wallet scheme to issue speedy refund is still pending.
Dinesh Gupta President
Dinesh Gupta
President
Mahadev Rajani Vice President
Aashish Joshi Hon. Secretary
Mahesh Puj Hon. Jt. Secretary
Jayesh Rajde Treasurer
Bulletin Committee
Murlidhar Jagani Convenor
Anil Kumar Jain
Kamlesh Ramchandani Mukesh Parekh
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PRESIDENT’S DESK
Issue 30
Date 01.10.2018 A Monthly Newsletter
Estd 1953
Upcoming Event
Open House Meet on GST
with Shri Yogendra Garg, Additional Director General, GST, Delhi
on 12.10.2018 @ 11.00 am
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Events @ GCCI
A meeting with our M.P. Shri Vinod Chavda on Gandhidham Land Issue on 12.09.2018
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Gandhidham Chamber organized a meeting on 12.9.2018 @ “Chamber Bhavan” under the Chairmanship of MP Kutch & Morbi Shri Vinodbhai Chavda to discuss burning problem of Transfer fee & Freehold related matters of Gandhidham Township. The members of various NGO’s, social organization and other Trade Associations were present and participated actively during the meeting. At the outset, President of Gandhidham Chamber Shri Dinesh Gupta welcome all and briefed the objective of meeting with the hope that the issues will be resolved by the end of year 2018 with the co-operation of all stakeholders. He highlighted that Gandhidham Chamber is continuously representing these issues at various levels of Governments. He apprised all about recent meeting with MOS -Ministry of shipping, Shipping Secretary and Chairman of Deendayal Port Trust but nothing comes out concretely about ultimate position and development to resolve the matter. While participating in discussion, the members of Chamber and invited representatives expressed their agony and pain. They clearly voiced about being done injustice by exorbitant rise in transfer fee by Deendayal Port Trust. It is very much essential to transfer and update revenue records of Gujarat Government and to start City Survey Office at Gandhidham for this purpose immediately. All requested MP, Shri Vinodbhai Chavda to take lead to resolve the issues and firmly expressed cooperation from all section of the society. MP Shri Vinodbhai Chavda while taking note of feelings and demands of the people briefed all about the representation made by him during the meeting of various organization including Gandhidham Chamber at various level of Shipping Ministry. He appealed all for the cooperation and expressed his readiness to organize regular meetings with the officials of Deendayal Port Trust and Ministers, Officials of Gujarat Government and Ministers & officials of Shipping Ministry by every 15 days to resolve the pending issues. At the end the Presidents of Gandhidham Chamber Shri Dinesh Gupta expressed thanks to Shri Vinodbhai Chavda, members of various organization & association, members of Chamber and press.
WINNERS
Last Month Quiz {Issue No. 29}
1st Prize : Ms. Aditi Garg
ANSWERS Last Month Quiz {Issue No.29}
1. Ans : d) Aashish Joshi 2. Ans : b) 1957, Bharatiya Jan Sangh 3. Ans : c) Kofi Annan 4. Ans : b) 21st December, 2015 5. Ans : a) Bharat Ratna
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Important Representations
Date Represented to Subject
01.09.18 Shri Sanjay Bhatia, Chairman, DPT CSR Compliance and activities 05.09.18 Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance Submission of suggestion on GST Law 14.09.18 Mrs. Remya Mohna, Collector –Kachchh, Bhuj Submission of points for Industrial Executive Committee and Swift
meeting on 18.9.2018. 14.09.18 Mrs. Remya Mohna, Collector –Kachchh, Bhuj Representation of the different roads of Kutch district for
refurbishing, repairing and making new roads. 15.09.18 RTO Officer, RTO Office, Bhuj Improvement in choreography of RTO office. 15.09.18 Shri Vijay Rupani, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Establishment of City Survey Office in Gandhidham - Kutch 17.09.18 Shri Kaushik Patel, Revenue Minister, Gujarat Renewal of Salt Land lease at district level 17.09.18 Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport,
Highways & Shipping Renewal of Fitness Certificate of Heavy Commercial Vehicles Request to initiate repairing work of various patches on National Highway No. 8A
18.09.18 Shri Ajay Prakash, Secretary DRUCC & Sr. DCM-ADI, Western Railway
Suggestions and discussion on issues in next DRUCC meeting to be held on 28.09.2018
20.09.18 Shri Vasanbhai Ahir, Minister of State for Welfare of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes
Regarding the pending issue of freehold land of Gandhidham complex
20.09.18 Shri Dilip Thakore, Minister of Labour and Employment Regarding relief / discounts to industrial units for payment of factory license fee for more than a year
21.09.18 Shri Sanjay Bhatia, Chairman, DPT Representation of port – operation related matters for immediate attention and resolution
25.09.18 Shri Sanjaykumar Agarwal, Commissioner, Custom To update the status and progress of the establishment of Custom Bonded Warehouses inside Deendayal Port
25.09.18 Shri Sanjay Bhatia, Chairman, DPT Suggestion for the issuance of port entry pass 25.09.18 Smt. P. V. Rathod, Superintendent of Police,
East Kachchh Police, Frequent incident of Highway Robbery near Village: Padana, NH – 8A, Gandhidham – Samakhiyali Highway, Padana
25.09.18 Shri Arun Jaitleyji, Hon'ble Minister for Finance Impact of discontinue of LOUs for importers and request for the reconsideration of the decision
આ બેઠકમાં ગાધંીધામ ચેમ્બરના ંપ્રિતિનિધ શ્રી પારસમલ નાહાટાએ કચ્છ-ર�લ્વેને લગતા િવિવધ �દુ્દાઓ �વાક� પાલન�રુ -
ગાધંીધામ ટ્ર�નના ંસમયમા ંફ�રફાર, ગાધંીધામથી ઉતર ભારત જવા માટ� નવી ટ્ર�ન, ગાધંીધામ – વડોદરા વચ્ચે ઇન્ટરસીટ�
ટ્ર�ન શ� કરવા, ગાધંીધામ – જોધ�રુ ટ્ર�નને દરરોજ ચલાવવા, આલા હઝરત ટ્ર�નને દરરોજ વાયા �ભલડ�થી ચલાવવા,
ગાધંીધામ – �ુદં્રા ડ�� ુટ્ર�ન ચલાવવા, �ુબંઈમાટ�ની એ.સી. એક્સપે્રસ ટ્ર�ન દરોરજ ચલાવવા, ગાધંીધામ સ્ટ�શને �ુલીની સખં્યા
વધારવા, પડતર �ડુસ ર�ક, િવરમગામ – સામાખીયાળ� - ગાધંીધામ વચ્ચે ડબલ ટ્ર�ક અને તે�ુ ંિવ�િુતકરણ કામ ઝડપથી
��ંુુ કરવા, િવગેર� �દુાઓ િવષે ર�ુઆત કર� હતી. આ સદંભ� ર�લ્વે પ્રશાસના ં િવિવધ િવભાગીય વડાઓએ સવ� પ્ર�ો�ુ ં
�લુ્યાકંન કર� ત્વર�ત યોગ્ય કરવાની હ�યાધારણા આપી હતી. આ બેઠક દરમ્યાન ર�લ્વેના ંઅિધકાર�શ્રીઓએ અન્ય �દુાઓની
ર�ુઆત �ગે મા�હતીગાર કર�લ ક� ગાધંીધામ સ્ટ�શને લીફ્ટ અને સ્વયસંચંા�લત સીડ� �ન્�આુર� ૨૦૧૯�ધુીમા ંશ� થઈ જશે,
�ચરઈ ર�લ્વે સ્ટ�શને બીજો વે �બ્રજ બનાવવાની મ�ુંર� આપી દ�વામા ંઆવી છે, ��ર ર�લ્વે સ્ટ�શને પ્લેટફોમર્ ન ં૨ બનાવવા
અને આ માટ� �ટ ઓવર �બ્રજ બનવવા મ�ુંર� આપી દ�વામા ંઆવેલ છે, ગાધંીધામ ર�લ્વે પ્લેટફોમર્ની લબંાઈ વધારવા અને
તેના પર શેડની લબંાઈ વધારવાની પણ મ�ુંર� આપી દ�વામા ંઆવેલ છે.
ગાધંીધામ ચેમ્બરના ંપ્રિતિનિધ દ્વારા પિ�મ ર�લ્વેની અમદાવાદ
િવભાગીય ઉપભોક્તા સલાહકાર સિમિતમા ંઉઠાવાયા કચ્છ ર�લ્વેના ં
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Government To Soon Bring Indian Standardisation For Medical Devices
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Government clear with its policy to reduce import of oil and end pollution: Nitin Gadkari
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Cabinet approves use of Bangladesh ports for Indian shipments to North-East
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Govt further eases cabotage rules for fertiliser cargo on foreign ships
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Auto component hub can help railways, shipping sectors slash imports Rajkot, the hub of auto components and engineering goods, stands a bright chance to become the leading equipments supplier to defence, railway and even the shipping sector. On Tuesday, a bridge meeting was held between members of Rajkot Engineering Association and officials of shipping ministry led by Directorate General of Shipping Dr Malini Shankar in the city. Shipping industry is also interested in procuring material from Jamnagar’s brass industry and Morbi’s ceramics whose businessmen were also invited for the meeting.
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Water storage level of 91 major reservoirs of the country goes up by two percent
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UP is first State to mandate RFID tag for e-Way bill Effective November 1, obtaining Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for fulfilling e-Way bill requirements will be mandatory in Uttar Pradesh. A notification issued by UP’s Commercial Tax Commissioner said transporters who ferry goods that require an e-Way bill, should have an RFID tag embedded on the windscreens of their vehicles. Though Maharashtra has completed a pilot project for use of the RFID tag, UP is the first State to notify such a measure.
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Jharkhand Govt introduces electric cars for official use
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સદં�શ વતર્માનપત્રમાથંી સાભાર
આખો પ�રપત્ર વાચંવા �ક્લક કરો મહ��લૂ િવભાગના ંપ�રપત્ર ન:ં બખપ/૧૦૨૦૧૮/૪૨૫/ક
Courtesy by: Shri Mahesh Puj, Hon. Jt. Secretary
Knowledge dikhaao, inaam paao! "Exciting Prizes to be won"
1 First Asia Cup Cricket Tournament was held in … a) 1980 b) 1984 c) 1994 d) 1974
4 When was the first Women’s Asia Cup played? a) 1984 b) 2000 c) 1994 d) 2004
2 Who scored the most runs in Asia Cup Cricket? a) Sachin Tendulkar b) Sunil Gavaskar c) Soaib Malik d) Sanath Jayasuria
5 How many Chief Minister of Gujarat visited GCCI? a) 5 b) 3 c) 2 d) None
3 Name the first President of Gandhidham Chamber of Commerce? a) Mahadevmal Tirthani b) Shivlalabhai Jani c) Nagjibhai Nathabhai d) Odhavramji K Thakkar
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