Data Sources: NCAER, KPMG, CMIE

Geo-economic power

• Set for the coastal ‘Silver Corridor’ as a development arc between it’s two gulfs.

• The ‘knowledge corridor’ has wooed global players.

• Asian tigers seek access to Gujarat ports for trading with the Middle East and Europe

• Japanese township near Dholera and Korean community near Valsad is proposed to raise the State’s international profile.

Only in Gujarat do ambitious projects like DMIC and GIFT get realized with ease, unimaginable port-based development is conceived and the largest SSP, SEZs and SIRs are implemented.

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Leader across industries

• Home to ‘second green revolution’ with soil health cards and scientific and integrated approach to agriculture

• India’s petro-gas capital• Contributes to 40% of the country’s

pharma and art-silk industries.• Has a lion’s share of 80% of polished

diamond industry• Leads 11% of the world’s chemical

exports• Home to Tata Nano and now

welcoming, the world’s largest two-wheeler maker, Hero Honda

The State government has formed a land bank of 50,000 hectares for industrial houses.

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Skyrocketing GDP

• Gujaratis hold 30% of the scrips floating in the market.

• Gujaratis account for 16% of Indian exports.

• Gujarat’s average industrial growth is 15%

Gujarat’s GDP has been growing at 12% for the last 12 years – as fast as China’s.

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The Ultimate Investment

Destination

• India’s largest social base of Business communities

• Political Stability, Business-friendly governance • Path-baking infrastructure• Attracts capital and entrepreneurial spirit from

East Asia, West and Middle-east.

Gujarat’s commercially tuned culture has made Gujarat the most “fast-forward” state of India.

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Constantly Improving HDI – Human Development Index

• 100% increase in budget allotment for malnutrition

• Three-time increase in improvements in health sector.

• Upto 50% budget slotted for HDI related activities and reforms.

• Jobs for 10 lakh youths• Water Supply to 12,000 villages• Electricity for 17,940 villages

Several credible schemes have been floated in Gujarat to improve the State’s performance on HDI.

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Committed to fighting Climate

Change

• First state to set up a Climate Change Department

• Bagged the world’s largest solar power plant in a 50,000 crore MoU with Clinton Foundation.

• Has the distinction of Housing India’s first Tidal Energy Project and the largest wind energy farm

• The State has country’s largest CNG and LNG infrastructure.

• Ahmedabad’s public transport system helps save 37 lakh tonnes of carbon emission.

‘Hopenhagen’ – Proactive policies for renewable energy, spearheading climate change initiatives in India.

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Empowering Women

• Rs. 1000 Crores sanctioned for Sakhi Mandals to micro-finance thousands of women.

• Girl Child Education Festival, Kanya Kelavani – Ensuring 100% enrollment and 0% dropout rate by 2010.

• Save the girl child, Beti Bachao Abhiyaan – Entails effective enforcement of PNDT act and an intensive awareness campaign for changing mindsets.

No other state has recognized that social change lies in changing the lives of women, like Gujarat.

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Transforming lives of the Common

People

• High-speed grievance-redressal systems in place• High-speed litigation though fast-track courts and evening

courts.• Serving 44 million people, Ahmedabad has a world class

public transport system. Other cities are set to follow.• The entire state machinery has been activated to take

special care of health, sanitation, education and public satisfaction.

• Disaster Management has reached a whole new level with state of the art technology and equipment placed all over the state. State- wide adoption of technology and IT such as e-Gram,

SWAGAT, ODOD has enabled one and all to be continuously connected with the administration at all levels.

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Dedicated to the Poor

• 50 ‘Garib Kalyan Mela’s held across Gujarat state directly distributed Rs. 1500 crores to 25L poor people in the form of checks, auto and cycle repairing kits, cycles, sewing machines, cycles for the disabled.

• Bypassing the middlemen in the Garib Kalyan Mela has ensured that 100% of the funds are reaching 100% of their intended beneficiaries in Gujarat.

• The State made direct arrangements for power and water distribution.

These initiatives offer a significantly better poverty alleviation model than that followed by governments at all levels. The right strategy combined with transparent & efficient implementation is expected to achieve results that other governments should also emulate.

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Leadership• Shaping an organizational

network in Governance• Instilling ‘Karmayogi’ culture to

make this network deliver• Unfazed by obstacles in the

march to development• Giving special attention to

environment, rural population and the poor to go hand in hand with economic growth and urbanization.

Gujarat stands as a metaphor for the groundbreaking transformation that the state has seen under the leadership of Chief Minster Shri Narendra Modi.

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