randomGuy Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 Check this out - http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf Poverty in gujarat is 16.6% In Maharashtra its 17.5%, WB its 19.9, Uttarakhand its 11.2, Haryana its 11%, Punjab its 8.2%, Karnataka its 20.9, TN its 11.2, Kerala its 7%, Rajasthan its 14.6. And if we see the malnutrition and HDI, we will find that Guj. is doing even worse than its poverty figures. Adding poverty %ages for Andhra Pradesh 9.2%, Himachal 8%., J&K 10.3%, Meghalaya 11.8%.
Sachin=GOD Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 Modi's UP campaign: Development or deception? In the 2012 UP assembly elections, the Gujarat chief minister and now BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, campaigned only in Ayodhya, where he addressed a public meeting and talked about development alone. However, the party lost in Ayodhya, which had been its bastion since 1989 following the Ram temple movement, which made BJP a national player. Election results were declared on March 6, 2012. BJP won 47 seats, down from 51 in 2007. However, almost two years later, all poll surveys are predicting a BJP wave in UP. So, what made things swing in BJP's favour? Read the following timeline. March 15, 2012: SP forms government and Akhilesh Yadav becomes the chief minister of UP. A new era of lawlessness starts in UP. The SP government also starts implementing its promises for Muslims, including the withdrawal of cases against terror-accused. Simultaneously, the Sangh Pariwar (RSS, BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal and others) starts a campaign to instigate Hindus against Muslim appeasement. It also launches propaganda on cow slaughter and ‘love jihad’, accusing Muslims of working against Hindus. A petition is filed by lawyers associated with VHP in Lucknow claiming the right of Hindus on a 'disputed place' where a mosque was constructed during the medieval period. Right-wing activists come out with more such claims in other parts of the state. There is also a surge in religious procession and pandals on festivals across the state leading to rise in cases of communal tension. Even minor disputes are given a communal colour in which social media plays a major role. The result: In 2012, there are 118 incidents of communal tension, which claim 29 lives and leave over 500 injured. In October 2012, during riots in Faizabad, rioters raise the slogan "UP bhi Gujarat banega, Faizabad shuruat karega (UP too will become Gujarat, beginning with Faizabad)". In 2013, around 250 incidents of communal tension are reported in UP, in which 95 people die and over 300 injured. Muzaffarnagar riots in September 2013 extensively reported but a large number of incidents across the state go unreported. These incidents create a sharp communal divide. SP's Muslim appeasement and Sangh Parivar's Hindu appeasement responsible for over 90% of incidents of communal tension. SP and BJP are accused of playing a fixed match to polarize votes. May 19, 2013: Modi's close confidant and BJP general secretary Amit Shah made party general secretary and in charge of UP. Sangh Parivar intensifies its 'save cow' campaign and 'love jihad' propaganda. June 9, 2013: Narendra Modi anointed chairman of BJP election campaign. June 12, 2013: VHP announces statewide campaign in UP for Ram temple. June 18, 2013: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says in Meerut that Hindutva is the only solution for India. July 6, 2013: Amit Shah visits Ayodhya, vows to build Ram temple. July 16, 2013: RSS chief formally approves Ram temple as an election issue. August 2, 2013: VHP chief Ashok Singhal says: "Modi is a divine creation who rose after Ram bhaktas were burnt down in 2002 and the developments in the 72 hours that followed. He is the gift of Lord Ram. The media, Sonia Gandhi, western powers have all attacked him. But he is invincible. Modi will stop the process of de-Hinduization that is taking place, and address unheard issues. Modi has protected religion, culture, and values and developed his state on the basis of that. Development and religion go together. Hindus got India freedom, and only the Hindu force can develop India into the number one country.” August 17, 2013: A VHP delegation led by Ashok Singhal meets SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav seeking the state government’s support for the 84-kosi yatra to mobilize people for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Singhal also asks Mulayam to persuade Muslim leaders, clerics and ulema to pave the way for the construction of the temple. Later, Sighal praises Mulayam for his positive approach. The VHP leader says, "Mulayam is no longer the ‘Mulla Mulayam’ who in 1990 had ordered police firing on the karsevaks in Ayodhya. Mulayam and his son Akhilesh touched our feet and sought our blessings". Although Mulayam does not react to the VHP's claim, after two days, SP government bans the yatra citing a Supreme Court order. August 25, 2013: Despite the ban, VHP goes ahead with its 84-kosi yatra. Many Hindu organizations also oppose the yatra because appropriate time for it is April-May. Though BJP officially stays away from the yatra, several leaders participate in it. There are allegations of a fixed match between the SP government and the Sangh Parivar to communalize and polarize the atmosphere in UP for electoral gains. September 7, 2013: A sustained communal campaign by the Sangh Parivar and the appeasement policy of the SP government result in large-scale violence in Muzaffarnagar and one of worst communal riots in UP takes place, resulting in the death of 65 persons and displacing over 60,000. September 13, 2013: Modi made BJP's prime ministerial candidate. The Sangh Parivar launches a campaign in UP (also across the country) that India is all set to have an OBC (other backward castes) prime minister. September 22, 2013: Despite communal tension in the state following riots in Muzaffarnagar, VHP takes out another yatra to mobilize public support for the construction of Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. October 19, 2013: Modi's first rally in UP held in Kanpur. He talks about development but allows other leaders to raise communal issues. Former chief minister of UP Kalyan Singh, referring to Muzaffarnagar riots, says: "There is a reaction to every action. Only dead bodies don't react." Singh was chief minister of the BJP government when the Babri mosque was demolished in 1992. However, later he quit BJP and joined hands with Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and won 2009 Lok Sabha election with SP support. Now he is back in BJP. The party has promised to promote his son in politics. November 8, 2013: Modi, while addressing a rally in Bahraich, accuses SP and Bahujan Samaj Party of inducting criminals. In the same rally, Prateek Singh, son of mafia-turned-politician Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, joins BJP. Though Brijbhushan is SP MP from Kaiserganj, he also announces his support to BJP. November 21, 2013: During Modi's Agra rally, BJP felicitates two of its MLAs -- Sangeet Singh Som and Suresh Rana -- accused of fanning riots in Muzaffarnagar. They are hailed as protectors of Hindus. Som had contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election on SP ticket from Muzaffarnagar. He was then labelled anti-Hindu. He lost the election and later joined BJP. After riots, he is being projected as "Hindu Hriday Samrat". December 20, 2013: Modi addresses rally in Varanasi. BJP leaders liken Modi to Lord Shiva. They modify 'Har Har Mahadev', chanted in praise of Lord Shiva, into 'Har Har Modi'. January 7, 2014: Amit Shah picks RSS men as poll coordinators in UP. These coordinators are given charge of campaigning and other election-related activities. January 23, 2014: In Modi's Gorakhpur rally, BJP leader Vinay Katiyar, who played a key role in the Ram temple movement, greets people with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and promises a law, if BJP wins and Modi becomes prime minister, to enable the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. Later, in Ballia, while addressing party workers, Amit Shah says that Modi belongs to a backward caste and if he became the prime minister of the country, it would be a matter of pride for the section. January 25, 2014: BJP workers in Kaushambi district install Modi's statue in a Shiva temple, worship him as a deity, address him as Swami Narendra Modi, recite Modi chalisa and call the temple 'NaMo NaMo Mandir'. January 30, 2014: BJP leaders perform puja before every Modi rally to pray for its success. However, when members of the BJP minority cell offer namaz on the stage before a function in Meerut, they are pulled up by state party chief Laxmikant Bajpai for performing 'religious activity' on the party's platform. February 2, 2014: Modi shares dais with riot-accused MLA Sangeet Singh Som in his Meerut rally but promises to make UP a riot-free state. Modi does not mention the Muzaffarnagar riots in his speech but talks about threat to 'maa-beti ki izzat' (honour of mothers and daughters) in UP. The same slogan was used by the Sangh Parivar to stoke communal passion which resulted in the riots. The timeline shows … Modi is playing the development card, but has allowed other leaders of his party and its sister organizations to speak in a highly communal language. Modi is attacking dynastic politics but has allowed BJP leaders to liken him to God and is promoting children of other BJP leaders. Modi is criticizing caste politics but has allowed BJP and RSS to project him as a backward leader. Modi is accusing other parties of patronizing criminals but has allowed the state BJP unit to induct mafia and criminal elements in the party. Modi is avoiding the 'Hindutva' language for which he is known, but through his gestures, vocabulary, actions and symbols at his rallies he has kept his Hindu hardliner image intact. Modi is promising a riot-free UP, but riot-accused are felicitated in his rally. Modi is talking about honesty, but is not giving account of Rs 20-25 crore being spent on each rally (he has addressed over 50 such rallies across the country since September) and not removing politicians convicted for corruption from his cabinet. Modi is accusing SP-BP-Congress of being hand in glove but shares dais with two leaders — Rajnath Singh and Kalyan Singh — who won the 2009 Lok Sabha elections with Mulayam Singh Yadav's support. Modi is talking about upholding the Constitution but eulogizes Kalyan Singh, who as UP chief minister failed to discharge his constitutional duty and did not follow the sworn affidavit he gave to the Supreme Court on the Babri mosque issue. Modi talks about communal amity, but in comparison with other parties in the country, at present BJP has maximum number of elected representatives (19 MPs and MLAs) who are facing criminal charges of provoking communal feelings. Modi rightly accuses Congress of being run through remote control by the Gandhi parivar but it is also a fact that the Sangh Parivar is running the BJP through remote control. Modi used RSS to control BJP and get himself nominated for the top job. RSS is also running his campaign. Gandhi parivar at least contests elections and is in a way answerable to the people. RSS is trying to impose its agenda on the country through BJP and Modi, but is not answerable to people in any way. Is this Modi's definition of democracy? http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Introspection/entry/modi-s-up-campaign-development-or-deception
zumi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 another well received speech by Modi, this time to a packed Chennai crowd, and calling Chidu, mr. recount. many in the crowd also responding with applause and cheers after lines delivered in hindi.
zumi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 also good to see Modi or matter of fact any leader, tearing into the snobbery of the foreign educated politicians who have done jack sh!t and simulatanously mock others for their lack of education from a prestige foreign institute. PS: anyway catch the idoit Dr. Swamy's hilarious response to Sanjay Jha, on Newshour with Arnob, that Rahul Gandhi got kicked out of Harvard University because of drug addiction, lol
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Development model based on family names! :two_thumbs_up: False ATS claim kept him in jail for 7 years http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/False-ATS-claim-kept-him-in-jail-for-7-years/articleshow/30069895.cms
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Modi's Gujarat has fared badly on poverty alleviation, however you measure it http://scroll.in/article/modis-gujarat-has-fared-badly-on-poverty-alleviation-however-you-measure-it?id=655854 in terms of the third indicator, namely leakages in the public distribution system, a specific welfare mechanism for poverty alleviation, Gujarat fares particularly badly. In 2011-2012, of all big states, Gujarat had the highest leakage in its PDS, as measured by methods widely accepted by economists, with the figure rising to 69 percent from 45 percent in 2009-10, said Himanshu. Again, Bihar, which has historically fared badly on this parameter, has dramatically improved in recent years. Leakages dropped from 65 percent in 2009-10 to 12 percent in 2011-2012. A state with 50% of leakage in PDS.
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Modi fans will like these two videos. :icflove: I loved the marketing on the second one. Zq3YNZnuklM tf97Kw5t_Ic
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Shehzaadas exist across parties. Some more talked about than the others
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Sharad Pawar says meeting with Modi shouldn't be politicised, BJP, Shiv Sena back him http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sharad-pawar-says-meeting-with-modi-shouldnt-be-politicised-bjp-shiv-sena-back-him/450934-37-64.html
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Why CNN-IBN's Sagarika Ghose may no longer criticise Modi http://scroll.in/article/why-cnn-ibns-sagarika-ghose-can-no-longer-criticise-modi?id=655950 Sagarika Ghose, deputy editor of the CNN-IBN who anchors the prime time Face the Nation programme, received instructions from the management of Network 18, which owns the news channel, not to post disparaging tweets about Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate ... Sagarika Ghose is not the only senior journalist who might be in a spot of trouble for expressing her views. Nikhil Wagle, editor of IBN Lokmat, Network 18's Marathi channel, known on Twitter be a critic of Modi , is also under pressure from the management, sources said. ... Siddharth Varadarajan, a highly respected, award-winning journalist, was negotiating with India Today magazine after resigning as editor of The Hindu in October. But the talks fell through because sources said that he had made it clear he wanted full editorial freedom , including to criticise Modi. ... In Gujarat, chief Minister Narendra Modi's regime has also gone after journalists, filing cases under a sedition law that the Supreme Court has ruled should be used only in cases of violent rebellion against the state. In 2006, Manoj Shinde, editor of a Gujarat paper, was charged with sedition for merely criticising the Modi government's tardy flood relief efforts. In 2008, The Times of India's Ahmedabad editor Bharat Desai and a photographer for the Gujarat Samachar newspaper were charged with sedition for exposing corruption in the police. After Vidya Subrahmaniam, a senior journalist at The Hindu, wrote an op-ed about Sardar Patel in October 2013 that appeared to have irked Modi's supporters, she received so many threat calls and intimidating messages that she filed a police complaint. After The Caravan magazine published its February cover story on Swami Aseemanand in which he accused the RSS of sanctioning terrorism, the magazine received threatening calls, its executive editor tweeted about threats to the magazine's Delhi and Mumbai offices. "I cannot imagine any other media house in today's environment, where I could have published this story," Jose said.
seedhi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Create an Apple, a Google in India:Narendra Modi to students at convocation address at SRM Chennai(Video) Exhorting students to set up their own enterprises in India through innovation to be in line with global giants like Apple, Microsoft and Google, Narendra Modi today said focus should be on imparting education and skill development. “Do whatever you can to make India innovative and to be competitive. Recently, Sathya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft. Most of you must be dreaming to reach the heights of Nadella,” he said. The BJP prime ministerial candidate was addressing the ninth convocation of SRM University near here. “My advice to you is create a similar enterprise here. Create Microsoft here. Create an Apple. Create a Google here in India. And then own it and manage it,” he said. “It is most unfortunate that even after 65 years of independence, we have not focused on education. As a nation, we should focus not only on individual progress or economic progress, but also nation building,” he said. He noted that 65 per cent of people in India are aged below 35 years. Observing that knowledge would be the biggest bridge between education and nation building, he said it is sad that no university in India has attained top global ranking status. “What is lacking we have to identify and work upon it.” Knowledge is also the “most potent tool” to fight poverty, he said, adding there was “no reason” why India should lag behind other developed nations. “We have the brightest minds. We have a number of philosophers. Why should be there only few SRMs?”, he asked. Stating that private enterprises are more eager to play in the education sector, he said, “I am quietly convinced that we should give them a free hand.” “That is why I recently said IITs and IIMs should be there in every state of our country”, he said. Pointing out that skill development is the need of the hour, he said “if there is no skill, there will not be employment.” Modi later awarded certificates and degrees to about 10,290 students of SRM University. http://deshgujarat.com/2014/02/09/narendra-modis-convocation-address-at-srm-chennaivideo/ SLG0hRX3Bl8
seedhi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Lessons from the Gujarat model Surjit S Bhalla Growth matters, apparently much more than dole, for poverty reduction. Almost a year ago, on December 13, 2012, I published an article in The Indian Express ('The Modi metric') with the explicit goal of evaluating Gujarat's development in terms of both economic growth per se and improvements in living standards. Gujarat was just about to go to the polls, and there had been constant (and continuing) debate about whether, under Narendra Modi's stewardship, the much-hyped economic growth had also delivered results to the poor. Of particular interest was the improvement in the lives of the Muslims. Gujarat's record since 2002 has been scarred by the post-Godhra riots, which took place just six months after Modi became chief minister in 2001. In this article, I had offered an index of inclusion, an index that revealed how the poverty decline for a particular disadvantaged community (for example, Muslims) compared to the poverty decline among the non-disadvantaged (non-SC/ST and non-Muslim). For all groups, the reference calculation was the decline in absolute poverty between 1999-2000 and 2009-10. If a state achieved a higher decline in poverty reduction of the disadvantaged relative to the advantaged, it obtained a higher rank. According to this index, Gujarat's rank was 15th out of 18 big states. That is, Gujarat was the fourth worst performer for poverty reduction among Muslims relative to the non-disadvantaged. Hence, I concluded that "Gujarat has delivered growth under Modi, but such growth has been neither equitable nor inclusive". Today, the contours of the debate have changed somewhat. Modi has been nominated as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate and the Gujarat development model has come under increasing criticism. Sometimes, this criticism comes in the form of fantasy, as the Congress's shooter for all occasions, Digvijaya Singh, recently claimed that not only was Gujarat's performance worse than Rajasthan's, but also the number of poor had increased under Modi! Others, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and most of the glitterati, have been equally critical of Gujarat's economic performance. Some, like me, based their analysis on the then latest 2009-10 NSSO data. Others used inappropriate data to draw conclusions, for example, using data on the population sex ratio to make inferences about the sex ratio at birth. No doubt, this discussion will continue into the elections next year, and it is entirely appropriate, indeed required, that an intelligent debate take place about development and models of development. This debate takes on heightened importance for another reason. Two of India's leading economists — Jagdish Bhagwati and Amartya Sen — have been positing their distinct and separate models of economic development. While both desire and want development, their prescriptions have an important difference. Simply put, Bhagwati would let economic growth do most of the work, while Sen would want active government intervention in the form of doles, preferably doles by right, to make right the misfortunes of the poor. The debate about performance is particularly obtuse in India. There is a considerable amount of molestation of statistics going around (for example, Digvijaya Singh's comment above), and when that is not enough, many in India take recourse to debating, in Madhav Dhar's words, the existence of gravity. Surely an interesting subject for rich and other wannabe rich Scandinavians to debate, but clearly not as important as determining what is the best strategy for reducing absolute poverty in India. This, and subsequent articles, will attempt to transparently discuss (just as the 'Modi metric' article) economic performance in India. Which model has delivered growth? Reduction in inequality? Education? Health? Poverty reduction? This first article looks at the most talked about, and possibly the most important, indicator variable for inclusive growth — that is, reduction in absolute poverty in India over the period 1999-2000 to 2011-12. (The beginning point is chosen for two reasons: it is a decade away and it also presents a reliable and convenient "initial conditions" set for Gujarat and PM contender Modi.) The standard source used for the analysis of poverty decline are the NSS surveys for these two years. Data for 2009-10 are also reported for ease of comparison with my earlier article and conclusion about Modi's Gujarat. The results are presented for different population groups. In addition, the data are aggregated into two population groups — the disadvantaged, consisting of Muslims, SCs and STs, and the non-disadvantaged (consisting of OBCs and upper-caste Hindus). As is well known, the NSSO conducted a new large sample survey in 2011-12 to counter the biased influence of the 2009-10 drought year. Note the marked decline in national poverty rates (a decline of 7.7 percentage points over 2009-10 at the national level) and in Gujarat (a decline of 6.3 per cent for the same period). The latest 2011-12 NSSO data radically changes the conclusions and interpretation of the nature of inclusive growth in Gujarat. The sharpest decline in poverty between 2009-10 and 2011-12 is observed for Muslims, the very community against which a Gujarati-Modi bias is assumed and presumed. The poverty ratio for Muslims, which had not shown much change between 1999-2000 and 2009-10, now collapses to only a 11.4 per cent level from the high 37.6 per cent level observed just two years earlier. At this level, the Muslim poverty rate is marginally below the 12.4 per cent poverty rate of the non-disadvantaged group consisting of OBCs and upper-caste Hindus. The lower panel B reports on the performance ranks for the different population categories. The rank for each category is based on the poverty decline in that category, with reference to the decline observed for the non-disadvantaged. For Gujarat, the non-disadvantaged have a poverty decline of 15 percentage points (ppt) between 1999-2000 and 2011-12. For SC/STs, the poverty decline is 28 ppt for the same period. So the excess poverty decline for SC/STs is 13 ppt, and this is the third-largest excess decline in the country for SC/STs. In the case of Muslims, Gujarat was the second best performing state, with West Bengal as the state where Muslims had the largest relative decline. (However, the poverty level for Muslims in West Bengal in 2011-12 was more than twice the level observed in Gujarat and near identical to the national Muslim average of 25.5 per cent). Election 2014 should be about development, and about the aspirations and improvement in the lives of the bottom 40 per cent of the population (the proportion of disadvantaged in the national population in 2011). If one looks jointly at poverty reduction and poverty levels, the preliminary conclusion has to be that the "Gujarat model" of development seems to have performed much better than most models on offer. The writer is chairman of Oxus Investments, an emerging market advisory firm, and a senior advisor to Zyfin, a leading financial information company. http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/lessons-from-the-gujarat-model/1187332/0 This is based on the latest NSSO data.
seedhi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 National Unemployment Rate : 4.7 per cent Gujarat Unemployment Rate : 2.7 per cent Sikkim has maximum unemployed; Chhattisgarh lowest: Report CHANDIGARH: With country's unemployment rate estimated to be at 4.7 per cent, Sikkim found to be having maximum unemployment rate while Chhattisgarh had the lowest unemployment rate across the country. In its latest Annual Employment & Unemployment Survey report for 2012-13 released by labour bureau under union ministry of labour and employment here today, Sikkim state had the maximum unemployed people in the country. The unemployment rate per 1,000 people aged more than 15 years was highest in Sikkim at 136, followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 130, Tripura at 126, Goa at 107 and Kerala at 104, said labour bureau director general, Daljeet Singh told reporters here today. As per the report, the unemployment rate of the country is estimated to be 4.7 per cent at All India level, he said. In the northern region, maximum unemployment rate was witnessed in Jammu and Kashmir at 88, followed by Himachal Pradesh at 63, Delhi at 57, UT Chandigarh at 56 and Punjab and Haryana 48 each, he said. Among lowest unemployment rate across the country, Chhattisgarh had lowest unemployment rate of 14, followed by Karnataka at 20, Madhya Pradesh at 22, Andhra Pradesh at 25 and Gujarat at 27, Singh further said. In case of unemployment rate per 1000 persons in young people aging between 15 and 29, Sikkim was against at top position at 372, Arunachal Pradesh at 327, Kerala at 315, Tripura at 306 and Jammu and Kashmir at 241. Among youth, Chhattisgarh was again found to be having lowest jobless rate at 33, followed by Karnataka at 52, Gujarat at 59, Madhya Pradesh at 60 and Mizoram at 78, as per labour survey report findings. Labour bureau took a sample of 1,33,354 households, excluding homeless people with a breakup of 82,624 households in rural and 50,730 households in urban sector, said chairman of expert group formed by ministry of labour and employment, SP Mukherjee. Based on the survey results, 51.2 per cent of households in the country are found to be having self-employment as major source of income under farm and non-farm activities, informed Singh. In rural areas, unemployment rate of 4.4 per cent whereas in urban areas, the same is 5.7 per cent, said Singh. Unemployment rate was found to be higher in females as compared to males. At all India level, female unemployment rate is estimated to be 7.2 per cent whereas in males, it is 4 per cent. In rural areas, 12.9 per cent households are estimated to be having regular or wage earning as major source of income. In urban areas, this figure is 42.1 per cent, said Singh. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-19/india/42216929_1_unemployment-rate-sikkim-labour-bureau
randomGuy Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 1 More than 1/3rd children are malnourished 2. People earning 11 and 17 each daily in rural and urban areas resp. are not considered poor.You are not poor in Gujarat if you earn Rs 11; Congress, BJP spar over BPL issue 3. pathetic adult nutrition and healthcare records. http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf Poverty in gujarat is 16.6% In Maharashtra its 17.5%, WB its 19.9, Uttarakhand its 11.2, Haryana its 11%, Punjab its 8.2%, Karnataka its 20.9, TN its 11.2, Kerala its 7%, Rajasthan its 14.6, Andhra 9.2%, Himachal 8%. And if we see the malnutrition and HDI, we will find that Guj. is doing even worse than its poverty figures. This after 12 yr rule of Modi . the problem has been the opposition to Modi have woken up very very late and have given his PR agency uninhedered playfield to create a huge perception in his favour , which is divorced from truth . Having said that there are some success stories like the electricity board revamp and appointment of a lady who did wonderfull work, under full empowerment of Modi ji. they have done excellent job in creating state highways and they have done excellent work in non conventional energy . They have benefitted from the work done by the previous governments ( who created sardar sarovar project ). Modi has cleverly repackaged this as his success. He has been brilliant in execution of some central government projects ( e governance related ) and ensured very good beruecrats are posted in the right place. They have failed miserably in creating metro / IT sector/ poverty reduction / HDI parameters . On prevention of crime they have average records .
seedhi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 ‘Power-full’ Gujarat gives 24-hour electricity AHMEDABAD: While people in almost half of India had to spend two dark nights after the northern power grid tripped in July last year, the Gujarat government was on a different trip. It was selling its surplus power to states like Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Maharashtra, earning a profit of around Rs 1,800 crore. It is no wonder then that chief minister Narendra Modi tom-tomed the state's 24-hour power supply to sell the Gujarat model of development for the rest of the country during his speech at the BJP national executive in Delhi on Sunday. "India has been forced to talk about the developmental model of Gujarat," he said. Gujarat now supplies near 24-hour electricity not only to its large cities and towns but to the 18,000 villages, too. All sources put together, Gujarat now produces about 14,000 MW power of which about 2,000 MW is surplus. There are some dark spots - like the latest census shows 11 lakh homes in the state still have no power source - though. Of these, about 15% are in the urban areas. At least nine lakh homes are in rural areas, where the government claims to have implemented Jyoti Gram. About nine lakh houses use kerosene lamps to light their homes. Of this, over eight lakh are in the rural areas. Gujarat energy minister Saurabh Patel says the government has promised 10 hours of electricity to farmers for agricultural purposes and is delivering on it. However, Praful Senjaliya, a farmer leader in Saurashtra associated with the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, disagrees. "Farmers have never got 10 hours electricity. As it is, we don't need much power because of drought-like situation. But the main problem is that electricity that is supplied for around five to eight hours is only at night and odd times. We have requested the government often to provide electricity in the day," he says. However, even the Centre has endorsed a part of Gujarat's power story. The driving force behind large-scale electrification is the Jyoti Gram project. The Centre has accepted this as a flagship scheme for the 12th Five-Year plan (2012-17) for supplying round-the-clock, high-quality, three-phase power to all villages. The project, behind which the state government has spent Rs 1,200 crore, was commissioned in 2006. It uses a separate electric feeder for domestic use and limited agricultural supply. It has also brought down transmission and distribution losses from 35% five years ago to about 19% in 2012. The Planning Commission's 2012 document 'Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan', endorsed Jyoti Gram, saying, "The programme of feeder separation has to be carried through across the country. Gujarat has achieved very good results by combining feeder separation with an extensive watershed programme for groundwater recharge. Punjab, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have also moved forward in this direction. Feeder separation needs to be extended to all states, especially where groundwater is extensively used." "For more than a year, industries in Gujarat are being provided 24 hours power supply for all the seven days a week," says an officer of the Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited, the main state utility. "We have provided industries the option of observing a holiday whenever they want but there are no restrictions on power usage." "We get a new connection easily by paying additional charges," says senior vice-president of Vadodara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nilesh Shukla. "There is no shortage of power for any industry in Vadodara." http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-04/india/37436402_1_gujarat-energy-minister-gujarat-model-surplus-power
Crookbond Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Articles dated Oct 26, Sep 19 and March 4 2013 are rehashed.
seedhi Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 ^^Says the person who posts Kiran Bedi's article from April 2013 (post #4285) :haha:
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