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Got the down low on Gujarat from dad:-
1) Electricity and potable water in almost all villages- true!
2) Clerical level, mid and low level corruption, impacting the common man directly down- true, in fact to a level which is unprecedented in India. Due to Modi? Yes VERY MUCH SO!
3) Women's health and nutrition- bad, not much work on that front despite talks about it.
4) Education- comparatively bad but improving.
5) Roads- sturdy, well built and wide spread- true!
6) Higher level corruption- still the same- Modi complicit partly:- specifics:- Large tracts of land sold at criminally low prices to industrialists and large sums pocketed and transferred to party coffers as elections funds, saving grace:- land is largely un-populated- no forced evictions or direct degradation of people's lives. Still illegal though since land is govt/public property and should not be sold off in this exact manner but also the same is responsible for a lot of industrial growth with quite a bit of money being fed back into public infra projects.
7) Opposition from RSS? Very much true.
8) discrimination and fundamentalism- still being propagated but not as party policy and largely due to VHP and RSS elements which are still autonomous and not under Modi's control nor is he trying to exert any further control since the RSS core nucleus at the center of BJP already gunning for him.
All in all a mixed bag BUT better than any other developing state in the nation atm. He's working exclusively in Gujarat atm in a personal capacity.