Narendra Modi said teach Muslims a lesson: IPS officer

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In terms of Six Fundamental Indicators of Population status, Health, Basic Amenities, Education, Unemployment& Poverty and Social Deprivation, Gujarat has infact gone down to number ELEVEN according to 2001 Census as compared to number FIVE in 1991 census in the rural areas.


Similarly it has gone down to number EIGHT as compared to number SEVEN with respect to urban areas.

Condition of Dalits and Tribals
In answer to a starred question in the legislative assembly, it was stated that in the three years till 30 June 2006, 100 dalits have been murdered.

During 2005-06 alone, 21 murder cases, 78 grievous injury, 414 simple injury and 56 cases of rape were filed under the Atrocities Act.

How safe are women in ‘Woman friendly Gujarat’?
The image of a ‘woman-friendly Gujarat’ comes under a sharp scanner with the facts given below:

Gujarat has reached number FIVE in having WORST SEX RATIO records with the ratio going down to 879 in 2001 census compared to 928 in 1991.

The state home minister has admitted that the “ Cases of Suicide & Murder of women have been on the rise, because of such reason like Prevalence of Dowry system, superstition and moral decadence”.

In the year 2005-06, 323 women were murdered, 264 cases were filed for sexual harassment against them, 350 cases of rape, 789 cases of kidnapping, 1835 cases of suicides were reported among women. This data does not include dowry deaths, abetment to suicide and accidental deaths of women which is already high in the state.

The Infant Mortality Rate for women is 61 in 2003, compared to 52 in Punjab and 41 in Tamilnadu, the two other states with bad track records vis-à-vis women.

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Poverty
Talking about poverty it is important to note that each state has its own criteria for declaring the index or threshold for Below Poverty Line in both rural and urban areas. Hence it has declared a threshold of Rs 353.93 per capita per month for the rural areas. It is interesting to note that it is lower than 15 states of India which include poor states like Jharkhand. Similarly, it has declared a threshold of Rs 541.16 pre capita per month in the urban areas, again lower than 12 other states. It is curious to note that a state which boasts of Rs 16,000 as the average per capita income, will have such low levels of indexes to declare the poor. It has hence very conveniently obliterated a large range of needy from the list of BPL. Obviously the very idea of earning Rs 542 per month in urban areas and not being declared as poor sounds like a cruel joke played on a large segment of people.

Talking about poverty it is important to note that each state has its own criteria for declaring the index or threshold for Below Poverty Line in both rural and urban areas. Hence it has declared a threshold of Rs 353.93 per capita per month for the rural areas. It is interesting to note that it is lower than 15 states of India which include poor states like Jharkhand. Similarly, it has declared a threshold of Rs 541.16 pre capita per month in the urban areas, again lower than 12 other states. It is curious to note that a state which boasts of Rs 16,000 as the average per capita income, will have such low levels of indexes to declare the poor. It has hence very conveniently obliterated a large range of needy from the list of BPL. Obviously the very idea of earning Rs 542 per month in urban areas and not being declared as poor sounds like a cruel joke played on a large segment of people.

Further, despite such low BPL threshold, the latest Planning Commission figures suggest that there is a widening gulf between the rural and the urban sectors of the state. Hence BPL population in the rural areas is more than the urban areas, both in percentage and in absolute terms. In this respect, Gujarat is in league of states like Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and the seven states of North-East and not with advanced states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and even Rajasthan. The state has 63.49 lakh (19.1% of the rural population) BPL people in the rural areas as compared to 27.19 lakh (13% of the urban population).


The latest NSSO data suggests that the rank of the state in this respect is lower than even Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, M.P., Maharashtra and Rajasthan. While the percentage of such population has declined marginally in the rural areas, it has increased in absolute numbers.

And this is the state where per capita income is higher than the national average!

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Employment and Agriculture


According to the census of 2001, roughly 46% population of the state is dependent upon agriculture (27.67% cultivators and 17.91% agricultural labourers). Together they contribute only 15% to the state's Gross Domestic Product while Industry contributes 39% and Services sector contributes 46%. It is hence not surprising that there is a gradual decline in food grain production (from 65.71 lakh tonnes in 2003-04 to 51.53 lakh tonnes in 2004-05). While the obvious reasons for these include more investment on cash crops and a shift to other tertiary sectors, it also raises a serious question about food security for the marginalised people.

This is also no surprise then that in another survey conducted by NSSO (July 2005) approximately 40% of the farmers in the state said that given an option they would like to shift from agriculture. It has also been brought out in the recent studies that both agriculture and labour have suffered extensively in the last decade or so while investments have shifted to industries. This is all the more serious as there is no fall back system being provided for the people dependent on agriculture for their survival.

May 2005 NSSO data also says that each of the 48 lakh farmers in the state was reeling under a debt of Rs 15,526.

Another indicator for the same is evinced in a reply given by the Chief Minister in the state assembly that in one year up to 31 January 2007, 148 farmers had committed suicide in the state. It's a different matter that the reasons attributed for this ranged from mental illness, family matters to inclement weather, all except poverty. Though, 'inclement weather' would actually mean crop failure, is obviously swept aside.

Its clear how, in the name of the rhetoric of 'Vibrant Gujarat' (and now 'Nirmal Gujarat'), state has gone into a denial mode all together just like in the case of Gujarat 2002 pogroms of the Muslims.

 

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(HCC) said it will invest Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) to set up a renewable energy project in Gujarat

Infrastructure major Hindustan Construction Company [ Get Quote ] (HCC) said it will invest Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) to set up a renewable energy project in Gujarat in the next two to five years.

"HCC has signed an MoU with the Gujarat government to set up a renewable energy project in the state worth Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) in the next 2-5 years time," company Chairman and Managing Director Ajit Gulabchand [ Images ] said on the sidelines of the 5th Global Summit of Vibrant Gujarat.

He said the company is currently executing work on the Water Front City at Dholera, for which it had announced an investment of Rs 40,000 crore (Rs 400 billion) in 2009.

Under an MoU signed with the Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, HCC had agreed to develop the Water Front City over 4,000 acres in Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) located at the Gulf of Cambay about 129 km from here.

Based on the concept of the company's Lavasa project in Maharashtra [ Images ], the Water Front City had envisaged an employment potential of 50,000 jobs.

Besides, HCC had also said in 2009 that it will invest Rs 1,500 crore for developing three water pipeline projects under an MoU signed with Narmada Water Resources, Water Supply and Kalpasar Department.

Asked about the environmental issues faced by the Lavasa project, Gulabchand said it is unfair on the part of the Environment Ministry to put a question mark suddenly on a project which has been ongoing for the past few years.

"The environment ministry's process should be transparent and there should be a clearly laid down policy and there should be a clear guideline related to such projects," he added.

HCC has already submitted all necessary documents running into "15,000 pages" to the environment ministry and is awaiting a report, he said.

 

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In terms of Six Fundamental Indicators of Population status, Health, Basic Amenities, Education, Unemployment& Poverty and Social Deprivation, Gujarat has infact gone down to number ELEVEN according to 2001 Census as compared to number FIVE in 1991 census in the rural areas.


Similarly it has gone down to number EIGHT as compared to number SEVEN with respect to urban areas.

Condition of Dalits and Tribals
In answer to a starred question in the legislative assembly, it was stated that in the three years till 30 June 2006, 100 dalits have been murdered.

During 2005-06 alone, 21 murder cases, 78 grievous injury, 414 simple injury and 56 cases of rape were filed under the Atrocities Act.

How safe are women in ‘Woman friendly Gujarat’?
The image of a ‘woman-friendly Gujarat’ comes under a sharp scanner with the facts given below:

Gujarat has reached number FIVE in having WORST SEX RATIO records with the ratio going down to 879 in 2001 census compared to 928 in 1991.

The state home minister has admitted that the “ Cases of Suicide & Murder of women have been on the rise, because of such reason like Prevalence of Dowry system, superstition and moral decadence”.

In the year 2005-06, 323 women were murdered, 264 cases were filed for sexual harassment against them, 350 cases of rape, 789 cases of kidnapping, 1835 cases of suicides were reported among women. This data does not include dowry deaths, abetment to suicide and accidental deaths of women which is already high in the state.

The Infant Mortality Rate for women is 61 in 2003, compared to 52 in Punjab and 41 in Tamilnadu, the two other states with bad track records vis-à-vis women.

---------- Post added at 03:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:02 PM ----------

Poverty
Talking about poverty it is important to note that each state has its own criteria for declaring the index or threshold for Below Poverty Line in both rural and urban areas. Hence it has declared a threshold of Rs 353.93 per capita per month for the rural areas. It is interesting to note that it is lower than 15 states of India which include poor states like Jharkhand. Similarly, it has declared a threshold of Rs 541.16 pre capita per month in the urban areas, again lower than 12 other states. It is curious to note that a state which boasts of Rs 16,000 as the average per capita income, will have such low levels of indexes to declare the poor. It has hence very conveniently obliterated a large range of needy from the list of BPL. Obviously the very idea of earning Rs 542 per month in urban areas and not being declared as poor sounds like a cruel joke played on a large segment of people.

Talking about poverty it is important to note that each state has its own criteria for declaring the index or threshold for Below Poverty Line in both rural and urban areas. Hence it has declared a threshold of Rs 353.93 per capita per month for the rural areas. It is interesting to note that it is lower than 15 states of India which include poor states like Jharkhand. Similarly, it has declared a threshold of Rs 541.16 pre capita per month in the urban areas, again lower than 12 other states. It is curious to note that a state which boasts of Rs 16,000 as the average per capita income, will have such low levels of indexes to declare the poor. It has hence very conveniently obliterated a large range of needy from the list of BPL. Obviously the very idea of earning Rs 542 per month in urban areas and not being declared as poor sounds like a cruel joke played on a large segment of people.

Further, despite such low BPL threshold, the latest Planning Commission figures suggest that there is a widening gulf between the rural and the urban sectors of the state. Hence BPL population in the rural areas is more than the urban areas, both in percentage and in absolute terms. In this respect, Gujarat is in league of states like Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and the seven states of North-East and not with advanced states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and even Rajasthan. The state has 63.49 lakh (19.1% of the rural population) BPL people in the rural areas as compared to 27.19 lakh (13% of the urban population).


The latest NSSO data suggests that the rank of the state in this respect is lower than even Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, M.P., Maharashtra and Rajasthan. While the percentage of such population has declined marginally in the rural areas, it has increased in absolute numbers.

And this is the state where per capita income is higher than the national average!

source: http://www.anhadin.net/IMG/pdf/pamphlet_Gujdevelopment.doc.pdf

 

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Water




Sardar Sarovar Pariyojana on Narmada waters has been widely debated over the years. It had envisaged in its master plan to supply water to the drought-hit areas of Kutch, Saurashtra, N. Gujarat and Panchmahals by 2021. Only recently CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) report took serious note of the fact that a completely unauthorised sub-plan was added to it later on and water to the tune of 255 MLD (million litres per day) was diverted to Gandhinagar and water intensive industries of Kutch. What is further atrocious to know is that while the need for Gandhinagar was estimated to be around 49 MLD, it was allocated 90 MLD water, almost double. So while the original targets of the project wait endlessly for the water, the ruling elite continues to highjack all that is available in the name of public benefits.




Ecology/SEZ

The point above has another linkage. A recent Forest Department report indicated that thanks to the coming of Special Economic Zones and water intensive industries, the mangroves (second largest after Sundarbans in W.Bengal) in the coastal areas of Saurashtra and Kutch are disappearing fast. Mangroves are supposed to be essential for nurturing marine life, protecting against tides and soil erosion and extremely vital for ecologically fragile zones like Kutch. What is happening instead is that in a place like Mundra (a SEZ of 13,000 hectares of land with a mangrove area of over 3,000 hectares), 340 square kilometres of mangroves have disappeared overnight. Secondly, water-intensive industries like cement, chemical fertilizers, pharmaceuticals are being promoted in a region dying of thirst. It is obvious then why the water from Narmada Pariyojana is being shifted and to whom.

Hence the development pattern is so skewed that it is not happening only at the cost of agriculture but even at the cost of ecology.




Poverty alleviation: rhetoric versus reality

The govt. never tires of telling that how it is working endlessly to end the poverty of the people, not least by declaring those unfit who otherwise would be designated extremely poor in any other place, as mentioned above. What is indeed ironical is that in a 'super-rich state' like Gujarat, Dangs, in South Gujarat has been officially declared the poorest district in India. Moreover, recent survey reports tell that under the recently rolled out National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the state govt. has not been able to utilise even half of Rs 22 crores allocated to it. The reason given for this is even more bizarre. According to the official explanation, it has been due to the fact that there are only four officials left to implement the programme in the entire district. Nothing could be more apt for a description of criminal negligence!!!





Last but not the least! Recently the Chief Minister announced a combined package of Rs 39, 000 cores (Rs 15,000 crores for the tribals, Rs 13,000 crores for the urban slums and Rs 11,000 crores for the fishermen) for the upliftment of specific segments of poor population. While it is evident what it means in an election year, it was little noticed that for a programme to be rolled out in the next five years, the state govt. itself admitted in the assembly, that it had made no provision for any of these schemes in the recent annual budget of Rs 43,000 crores.

 

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Teesta slams Hazare for ‘endorsing’ Narendra Modi

by CD Network

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:33


April 13: Popular activist and Editor of Communalism Combat Teesta Setalvad has lashed out at Anna Hazare for “endorsing” Narendra Modi, the controversial Chief Minister of Gujarat.

In a press release she has stated:

“We, academics, activists, artists and intellectuals strongly condemn the recently reported statement made by Anna Hazareji in which he has brazenly endorsed Narendra Modi, a politician who not only symbolizes the politics of division but unconstitutional governance. For the veteran anti-corruption social activist, Hazare to endorse a politician against whom a Supreme Court led investigation into conspiracy to commit mass murder and rape, subversion of evidence and pressure and intimidation of key witnesses is still underway reveals a narrow and mercenary understanding of the meaning of corruption. Worse, given the support base of the recent high profile and highly televised event agitation, that included open support from Ram Madhav and the RSS as also Baba Ramdev, Hazare’s move could be construed as a bid to actually influence this SC-driven criminal investigation.

Modi stands accused, and has not been yet cleared of serious charges of actively masterminding mass murder, loot and rape of 2,500 of Gujarat’s innocent citizens consciously perverting his position and power as chief minister in 2002. This and other investigations have been rigorously pursued by victim survivors of these gruesome massacres and Hazare’s statement, more than anything else rubs salt on deep wounds. Not once in the nine years since the state sponsored carnage has Modi, who has written a tear-filled communication to Hazare wiped tears from the heavy hearts of Muslim victim survivors in Gujarat. Nor has Modi even apologized for failing to perform his Constitutional duty.

On the issue of corruption and good governance too, Modi may yet fail the exemplary test. Allegations of serious corruption in state government schemes have been steadily documented and printed within Gujarat but have rarely made it to the headlines of national television. There has been little or no rural development in this state. In fact gauchar lands and irrigated farmlands have been stealthily taken by the government and sold off at ridiculous prices to a small club of industrialists. The ridiculously low interest loan given at the expense of five crore Gujarati taxpayers to Tata’s Nano project suggests a corrupt loan write off f public finances.

The irony of Modi being hailed by the leader of the National Lok Pal movement is cruel since there has been no Lokayukta in Gujarat for nearly seven years! Hundreds of complaints against corruption are lying unheard in that state as the common Gujarati reels under his mercenary dictatorship. From the Sujalam Sufalam scam of 1700 crores to the NREGS boribund scam of 109 crores, the fisheries scam of 600 crores, every department has been accused of being involved in thousands of crores worth of scams. The poor and rural people of Gujarat are being sold to Modi's small coterie of friends, the industrialists. The state is in terrible debt because of his largesse to industry while 21 lakh farmers wait for compensation for the land seized from them. How hen can Haraeji call Modi non-corrupt or hail his model of development?

Little or no funds have been released by the GOG to the Minority Finance Development Corporation, even less to the Gujarat State Wakf Board. No figures are provided by the state government for funds allotted to the religious minorities.

The corrosion and corruption in our system is not merely monetary but the subversion of the Indian Constitution and Constitutional Governance has been in large measure due to the unbridled and unchecked growth of state and non state actors who are sworn to partisan politics, ideology and governance. While their was more than some discomfiture felt by many of us when we saw this worthy anti-corruption movement being supported by RSS cadres and Baba Ramdev, guilty of amassing crores of money and property himself, this discomfiture increased as accusation of bus loads of supporters arriving to Jantar Mantar from Gujarat came in and finally dues were extracted by the ruler of that state, Narendra Modi, in the form of praise from Anna Hazareji.”

 

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Water




Sardar Sarovar Pariyojana on Narmada waters has been widely debated over the years. It had envisaged in its master plan to supply water to the drought-hit areas of Kutch, Saurashtra, N. Gujarat and Panchmahals by 2021. Only recently CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) report took serious note of the fact that a completely unauthorised sub-plan was added to it later on and water to the tune of 255 MLD (million litres per day) was diverted to Gandhinagar and water intensive industries of Kutch. What is further atrocious to know is that while the need for Gandhinagar was estimated to be around 49 MLD, it was allocated 90 MLD water, almost double. So while the original targets of the project wait endlessly for the water, the ruling elite continues to highjack all that is available in the name of public benefits.




Ecology/SEZ

The point above has another linkage. A recent Forest Department report indicated that thanks to the coming of Special Economic Zones and water intensive industries, the mangroves (second largest after Sundarbans in W.Bengal) in the coastal areas of Saurashtra and Kutch are disappearing fast. Mangroves are supposed to be essential for nurturing marine life, protecting against tides and soil erosion and extremely vital for ecologically fragile zones like Kutch. What is happening instead is that in a place like Mundra (a SEZ of 13,000 hectares of land with a mangrove area of over 3,000 hectares), 340 square kilometres of mangroves have disappeared overnight. Secondly, water-intensive industries like cement, chemical fertilizers, pharmaceuticals are being promoted in a region dying of thirst. It is obvious then why the water from Narmada Pariyojana is being shifted and to whom.

Hence the development pattern is so skewed that it is not happening only at the cost of agriculture but even at the cost of ecology.




Poverty alleviation: rhetoric versus reality

The govt. never tires of telling that how it is working endlessly to end the poverty of the people, not least by declaring those unfit who otherwise would be designated extremely poor in any other place, as mentioned above. What is indeed ironical is that in a 'super-rich state' like Gujarat, Dangs, in South Gujarat has been officially declared the poorest district in India. Moreover, recent survey reports tell that under the recently rolled out National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the state govt. has not been able to utilise even half of Rs 22 crores allocated to it. The reason given for this is even more bizarre. According to the official explanation, it has been due to the fact that there are only four officials left to implement the programme in the entire district. Nothing could be more apt for a description of criminal negligence!!!





Last but not the least! Recently the Chief Minister announced a combined package of Rs 39, 000 cores (Rs 15,000 crores for the tribals, Rs 13,000 crores for the urban slums and Rs 11,000 crores for the fishermen) for the upliftment of specific segments of poor population. While it is evident what it means in an election year, it was little noticed that for a programme to be rolled out in the next five years, the state govt. itself admitted in the assembly, that it had made no provision for any of these schemes in the recent annual budget of Rs 43,000 crores.

Source: Blogger-Index!

 

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Tata Nano dumps Communist Bengal for Modi's Gujarat

The long drama of Tata Nano may be getting over. Tata Nano will move to Gujarat.

Narender Modi and Tata officials have signed the agreement and they were shown exchanging documents. Fortunately for both, the farmers in Gujarat are in more than a welcoming mood for Tata to come to their hinterland.

Farmer-turned-industrialist Ravubha Vaghela was a very happy man on Monday after selling his entire 30 acres of land at Khoda and Naranpura villages to Gujarat government.

Despite the fact that he had earmarked it for expanding his own company Raviraj Foils Ltd, he gave it off to the State Government at less than half the going price!!

Vaghela says he sold the land for Rs 15 crore at Rs 1,000 per square metre , despite the going market rate of Rs 2,500 per sq mt.

Vaghela says he could have haggled for a better price or even gone to court. “But this would have delayed the process and Nano plant could have gone out of Gujarat’s hands. I was glad to make the sacrifice. For Tata project I could have given my land for free. I am a proud Rajput today that I will be instrumental in bringing Nano project to Gujarat,” said Vaghela, who feels it’s time for him to repay a debt to Tatas.

“During the great famine of 1900 Jamshetji Tata rescued the Kankrej cows being bred at the farm by making a donation of Rs 1,000,” he explains, adding that his move symbolises the difference in the outlook of farmers in Gujarat and West Bengal.

 

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Mahesh Langa, Hindustan Times
Email Author
Ahmedabad, January 12, 2011
75% deals since 2003 just on paper

Hardly 25% of the deals signed during the Gujarat investors' summits since 2003 have been successful. The rest have remained on paper.

This has been the finding of an audit done by former chief minister and BJP leader Suresh Mehta.

"Of the 9,326 MoUs inked in the last four summits, only 844 translated into projects commissioned so far while 1,432 projects are under various stages of implementation," Mehta told HT. "This means only 25% of the MoUs have materialised."

During the summit in 2009, 8,660 MoUs were signed but only about 543 projects materialised while 1,238 are under implementation, the audit says.

One big project (Rs1.8 lakh crore) that did not materialise was supposed to be of a consortium of Hindustan Construction Company and Universal Success Enterprises, led by NRI Prasoon Mukherjee and the Shabir Bhatia group. They were to develop a township, power plant and port near Ahmedabad.

However, Mehta said Gujarat had traditionally been at the forefront in attracting moneybags, getting more than 20% of the investment in the country at any point of time, and that continued irrespective of whether such summits were held.

"In the early 1990s, Gujarat had become a front-ranking state, replacing Maharashtra in getting investments in industry. During that period, work started on the Reliance Industries refinery in Jamnagar, Essar's refinery, the expansion of the Hazira industrial area in south Gujarat near Surat and the General Motors manufacturing facility at Halol near Vadodara."

"Very good rainfall in the last seven years and the robust economy in the country have resulted in industrialised states like Gujarat achieving higher growth rates than the national average," he said.

An IIM-Ahmedabad professor, who did not want to be named, said, "The Vibrant Gujarat platform is meant for marketing the government's achievements by inflating figures of investment," he said.

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Gujarat economy grows twice as fast as India’s
It's official now. There is no economic slowdown in Gujarat. According to a government report, in 2009-10 the state registered 12.99% Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) growth, which is more than the target of 11.2% set by the Planning Commission under the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12).

In fact, as Union finance minister announced in the budget on Friday, India’s likely GDP growth in 2009-10 is 7.2%. As for Gujarat, encouraged by its GSDP, the state now plans to achieve 14% and 15% growth in 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively.

"The state has a target to achieve 11.2% growth during the 11th Five-Year Plan, as against 9% set for the nation. The state's economy at current prices has recorded an annualised growth rate of 15.04 % for the past six years (2004-05 to 2009-10), one of the highest in the country.

GSDP at current prices in 2009-10 is estimated at Rs3,81,028 crore as against Rs3,37,217 crore in 2008-09, showing an increase of 13 per cent," the state government's statement under the Gujarat Fiscal Responsibility Act (GFRA), 2005, for 2009-10 says.

"It can be observed that while there was a slight decline in GSDP growth during 2008-09, in keeping with the recessionary pressure felt by the Indian economy due to global financial crisis, the state's economy has been quick to rebound in 2009-10 and continues to maintain its high growth trajectory."

The statement further noted that in 2008-09, the shares of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in the total GSDP growth were 17.76%, 41.05% and 41.19% respectively. The shares of these sectors in the base year 1999-2000 were 18.62%, 39.21% and 42.17% respectively. "This is indicative of a balanced growth of the economy."

"With the resumption of growth process, it is expected that in the next two years of the current Five-Year Plan, the state would accelerate its growth rate to 14% and 15% respectively," the report says.

Bilal ji Pakistan gotta lot to learn from Gujarat ......... at least reach half of the Gujarat growth rate then we talk to you ...

Gujarat economy grows twice as fast as India’s - India - DNA

 

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Guys, be humane. Do not further torture a frustrated soul.

 

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Ahmedabad awaits new town planning schemes - Times Of India




I am loving this... tadatatttataaaa..

 

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Gujarat
The Global Business Hub


From the Desk
Gujarat has been at the forefront of economic growth in the
country with its continued leadership in industrial development.
With its reputation of being a highly investor-friendly state, the
state has a proven track record of attracting large investments
and as a result, becoming the most favoured investment
destination in India. The changes in the economic order of the
world today coupled with the economic meltdown in developed
countries has resulted in global investors exploring newer
investment destinations for safety and assured returns.
Backed by a relatively strong fundamental economic base, with
India not being significantly impacted due to the economic crisis,
investors globally are looking towards India for investments.
Government of Gujarat has been taking steps to attract global
investors through Vibrant Gujarat summits – the largest investor
meet and a huge networking event. The next edition of Vibrant
Gujarat is scheduled to be held on 12th & 13th January 2011 in
Gujarat. Investment proposals worth USD 243 billion were
signed in the last edition of Vibrant Gujarat in January 2009.
Gujarat is one of the leading industrialized states in the country.
Led by entrepreneurial spirit and unfaltering support of the state
government, Gujarat has emerged as a manufacturing
powerhouse with world class production capabilities and
facilities. Gujarat accounts for 17% of the country's total fixed
capital. In fact, the economic activity in Gujarat is based on a
strong edifice of manufacturing sector.
Please feel free to revert in case you have any query or require
any clarifications. Please visit Vibrant Gujarat - The Growth Engine of India to
identify business opportunities and to know more about Gujarat.
I look forward to continuous interactions with your organization
in the lead up to Vibrant Gujarat 2011

To be Continue.....

 

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Sibal says Modi is anti-development and anti-Gujarat

Submitted by Ashok Dixit on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 16:31. General Politics Kapil Sibal India New Delhi


New Delhi, Dec. 8: Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal has joined the growing bandwagon of critics of the BJP Government in Gujarat, which is led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The political battle for Gujarat is heating up. On Friday, key protagonists for next week’s two-phased Assembly elections in the state traded charges without hesitation or qualm.

If an under attack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was at his Hindutva best at an election rally in Sevaliya in Kheda District, where he charged the Congress-led UPA Government of wantonly dishonouring and bypassing the Supreme Court on issues of national sentiment and interest, there was a strong rebuttal from the Prime Minister and Congress leader, Dr. Manmohan Singh, who took the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to task for describing the Congress as "anti-Hindu".

Dr. Singh, who visited Surat and Rajkot in the run-up to next week’s polls, said: "The Congress has a history of 120 years. The Congress party is a gift of great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhai Patel. I think to accuse the Congress of any communal bias is an insult to the memory of our freedom struggle. "

On Modi’s charge that the Congress was anti-Hindu, he replied: "Somebody is now trying to paint the Congress party in wrong colours. It is a measure of the fear and the uncertain future that faces them. This is a sign of weakness and not a sign of strength.

Sibal described Modi as anti-development, anti-Gujarat, anti-people and the man in whose name and at whose behest most of the fake encounters in the state had taken place.

In an exclusive interview to ANI here, Sibal said: “The reality of Modi’s vibrant Gujarat was that it was a vanishing Gujarat, ” and added that he had and would continue to challenge the Chief Minister to come on any platform anywhere to debate any issue that he and the BJP was championing in Gujarat.

“The Congress Party’s strategy is very simple. We are ready to talk about how Modi as Chief Minister has performed, and how he has not delivered on any front. Modi in his campaign has said that he would discuss development in his election campaign. We accepted the challenge. We would like to take him on development issues, whether agriculture, industry, water, Narmada and health. Modi is refusing to discuss these issues. He is only giving statistics, much of which is unrelated to realities, ” said Sibal.

Commenting on Modi’s claim that Gujarat’s economy had grown by 12.17 percent in fiscal 2006-07 and that this was three percent higher than the national average, Sibal said that the socio-economic review of the state had exposed this statistic as nothing but misinformation that pertained not to 2006-07 but to 2005-06.

He further went on to say that as per the statistics of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Government of Gujarat, the GDP growth of the state for 2006-07 was just 8.11 percent, which was well below the national average of 9.4 percent.

On the issue of public debt, Sibal said: “Gujarat one of the highest indebted states of the country, with an outstanding debt of around Rs. 20, 000 per person. ”

He further went on to say that, as on March 31, 2006, the Gross Public Debt of the State was an estimated Rs. 66925.83 crore, which was 30.89 percent of the GDP.

“When Modi took over as the Chief Minister in October 2000, the outstanding debt of the State was Rs. 344.5 billion (34450 crores) Gujarat today is the worst indebted state in the country. The average per capita in Gujarat is over 21,000. The debt of the government is Rs. 69 crore. The State is now paying Rs. 6242 crores as interest per year. These are official figures of the Gujarat Government, ” said Sibal in the interview.

On the issue of foreign direct investment, Sibal said: ”Modi repeatedly claims that Gujarat has one of the best physical and social infrastructures in the country for foreign investment. But it (Gujarat) still lags behind many states in terms of foreign direct investment. ”

When the minister was asked whether anti-incumbency and dissidence would have an effect on next week’s polls, he said: “There is an element of anti-incumbency. There is a vibrant Gujarat and a vanishing Gujarat, and even the vibrant Gujarat that he (Modi) talks about, even there, the figure is not something to be proud of. Look at the vibrant Gujarat, the number of engineering colleges. Such institutions are more in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Gujarat is far behind. ”

“Can Modi say there has been an IT revolution in Gujarat or, a biotechnology revolution in Gujarat, ” Sibal added. Reacting to Modi’s charge that the UPA Government had deliberately gone slow on the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in spite of a Supreme Court directive, Sibal told ANI: “When the NDA was in power, 19 people were on death row. Can Modi explain why they were not executed? ”

“Any person who believes in Ram (i.. e. Modi), must have Ram Rajya. But, at hear, Modi is a non-believer. Being a non-believer, only he can do what he has done to the people of Gujarat, the migrants, the refugees etc, ” said Sibal.

With reference to the encounter killings in Gujarat, Sibal said that before the arrest and incarceration of senior Gujarat police officer and Modi loyalist D. G. Vanzara on April 25, 2007, 14 encounters had taken place in the state out of which, ten of them involved Vanzara.

This clearly established that Vanzara was Modi’s officer for such activities, Sibal said, adding after April 25, 2007, surprisingly there had been no encounters in the state.

“It is the Gujarat Government that filed an affidavit (relating to the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case). Modi must explain about what happened to Kauser Bi (Sohrabuddin’s wife), What happened to Prajapati? It was an act of grotesque constitutional impropriety. ”

Commenting on Sonia Gandhi’s statement that merchants of death were operating Gujarat, Sibal said: “ It was meant for the manner in which certain state functionaries are operating. What is wrong with that? This is, what the Gujarat Government, exhibited. The counsel for the Gujarat Government (former Supreme Court Justice K. T.S. Tulsi) has now resigned, saying that Mr. Modi should not have said it. It is that counsel that filed the affidavit in the Supreme Court, saying this Vanzara should be prosecuted. And of course, we still don't know where Prajapati is? We still don't know what happened to Kausar Bi (encounter victim Sohrabuddin’s wife)? And they talk about Ram? If you (Modi) want to talk about Ram, then let's see Ram Rajya in Gujarat. "

"The Congress Party has also said, we believe in Ram. When did the Congress Party say, that it didn't believe in Ram. Parties can't believe in gods, individuals can. I'm a Hindu and I believe in Ram. Some people may not, " Sibal added.

Sibal concluded by saying that every time he went to Gujarat, the issue of development was raised, but nobody joined in a debate on it. He said the figures being touted around by Chief Minister Modi were completely false, and that his real agenda was and continues to be the promotion of a “communal agenda”.

“This should not happen in a democracy. It is very sad, ” Sibal concluded. (ANI)

 

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Gujarat Update
Gujarat notifies $21.7 billion Special
Investment Region
March 02, 2010
Gujarat's Special Investment Region (SIR)
that will have an investment of Rs. 1 trillion
(US $21.7 billion) is now a reality with the
state government issuing a notification for
setting up of the region, an official said here
Tuesday.
The notification was issued to the Dholera
SIR Regional Development Authority
(DSRDA) recently. Following the
notification, the process on the ground is
expected to pick up speed.
'This is the first concrete step in turning
this SIR into a reality,' the industries
department official said.
The authority will create the infrastructure
in the region and make land allotments to
units proposing to set up shop there.
'The government has already notified
99,000 hectares of land in 22 villages in the
region and an investment of Rs. 1 trillion is
on the anvil. The investment may ultimately
even exceed this figure,' the official said.
SIR will be a global showcase for Gujarat
with a port and an airport in the region
coming up in Dholera town, about 30 km
from Dhandhuka village of Ahmedabad
district.
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RIL invests Rs 32,017 cr in SEZ, creates
2096 jobs: Gujarat Govt
March 18, 2010


GANDHINAGAR: The Reliance group has
made investment of Rs 32,017 crore at the
Special Economic Zone at Jamnagar for
which the state had given over 1,333
hectare land for Rs 311.74 crore. The
project has generated 2096 direct jobs, the
state government said today.
In Jamnagar, the state government has
given over 12 hectare lands for refinery for
Rs 13.47 lakh, 1,333 hectare land for Rs
311.74 crore for SEZ and 57 hectare land for
Rs 25 crore for setting up a marine tank
farm.
The Tata group has been given land in
Gandhinagar for an IT project and in Sanand
for the Nano car project. According to the
government, over 1,031 hectare land has
been given to the Tata group for Rs 11.35
crore for an IT project where an investment
of Rs 11,434 crore would be made
generating over 8000 jobs once the entire
project becomes operational.