Vinod Rao

Flood victims of Vadodara city and rural areas will be given cash doles of Rs 3 crore by the district administration. District collector Vinod Rao directed the officials to pay cash doles to the victims by Saturday. Rao, who took charge on Thursday, also asked the administration to speed up assessment of homes damaged during the floods.

Construction of a plush club that was coming up in Sindhrot village has been stalled by the district administration on grounds that it was being illegally constructed on agricultural land.

Officials and employees of district collectorate are on the tenterhooks these days.

Another Diwali has arrived and the city is gearing up for festivities, but the festival brings little hope to Salimmiyan Sheikh, who is struggling to get compensation for his eight-year-old son's death.

After an impressive show in last year's assembly polls, the district administration is now seeking to increase the polling percentage in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Voters won't have to worry about scorching sun on April 30. Right from drinking water to buttermilk and cold drinks, the voters will have luxury to cool themselves off before they cast ballot.

All the schools in Vadodara ? granted or non-granted ? will undergo an inspection within next one month.

Vinod Rao, secretary (education), said on Friday that the state education department has sought the letter of application sent by DPS East to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which included the no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Government of Gujarat.

The district administration has decided to step up efforts to reach out to voters under the government's Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) ahead of the assembly polls.

Daily wager Vinod Rao, 40, of Chikkabanavara fell to his death from the fifth floor of a hospital in Soladevanahalli police limits, Bangalore North on Monday evening.

The police commissioner office wants to move out of the Police Bhavan, which is located in an eight-storeyed building opposite Vadodara Central Jail.

On December 9, over 1,000 citizens will run in the city to appeal to people to come out and vote during the assembly polls to be held on December 17.

The district administration has registered an offence against realtor and land dealer Sanjeev Bharambe for allegedly duping the state through fraudulent land deals.

A day after being booked under the provisions of Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA), son of ex-cop Kishorsinh Chauhan, has made allegations of bias against the district collector.

With three more school children from Ahmedabad testing positive for Covid, the total number of such students in urban areas of the state has crossed more than 100 in the last one month, said sources in the education department.

Branding products and services is a known affair, but a motley group of youths in the city has taken up the onus of creating Brand Vadodara.

The controversy surrounding 31,080 square feet land of M S University in Padra is set to turn bigger.

Sanjay and Ankita Prajapati, a young couple working in private companies in Maninagar, recently got admission of their two sons cancelled from Pooja Vidyalaya, a private school in New Maninagar, and enrolled them in Indrapuri Government Primary School.

Following its successful experiment during Punjab elections, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to arrange door-to-door distribution of voter slip to voters for the coming assembly elections in Gujarat.

A taskforce formed to monitor and tackle the cases of child labour has been formed under the chairmanship of district collector Vinod Rao.

Vadodara district collector Vinod Rao, IAS, has been awarded a PhD in management by North Gujarat University.

: With the change in the age criteria for admission to Class 1, the number of children admitted this year has fallen drastically compared to previous years.

The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will get its seventh municipal commissioner in less than five years. The frequent transfers of bureaucrats appointed to the post have raised several eyebrows.

District Election Officer Vinod Rao, Assistant Returning Officer of Manjalpur Assembly constituency, Director of All India Radio, Joint Director of Information and a senior citizen are members of the newly constituted district media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC), which will scrutinize all political advertisements prior to their being aired on TV channels, cable network and FM radios.

The official celebrations of the Independence Day for the district were held at Dabhoi on Wednesday and Sukhadia had presided over the function.