Change in United Progressive Alliance(UPA) policies

The following are the new list of ministers

1.Corporate Affairs-Murli Deora

2.Planning Ministry-Ashwini Kumar

3.Culture(Housing and Poverty Alleviation Portfolio)-Kumari Shelja

4.Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises-Praful Patel

5.Coal-Sai Prakash Jaiswal

6.Rural Development and Panchayati Raj-Vilasrao Deshmukh

7.Urban Development-Kamal Nath

8.Steel-Beni Prasad Verma

9.Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME)-Virbhadra Singh

10.Tourism-Subodh Kant Sahay

11.Sports and Youth-Ajay Maken

12.Water Resources and Minority Affairs-Salman Khurshid

13.Petroleum and Natural Gas- S Jaipal Reddy

14.Civil Aviation-Vayalar Ravi

Success story of Gujarat

Hey friends…Hope you enjoying 2011…
In this post I would like to make you all familiar with some facts related to “Success Story of Gujarat”.
Today India is the second fastest growing economy in the world and is in full force to become the next economic superpower, and the most striking feature is that Gujarat with its developing and developed industrialization, infrastructure opportunities, and an investment friendly environment will become the biggest investment destinations in south-east Asia along with its one-third contribution to Indian GDP( $450 billion).
Gujarat and its political, social and business leadership have contributed substantially to the growth of India. The vision and headship of Chief Minister Narendra Modi has made a major difference in visibility of the state on the global front and state is growing at a rate higher than the national average.
The Vibrant Gujarat model was attended by The Ambani brothers, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Rata, Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Vice-Chairman & Managing Director Anand Mahindra , Larsen & Toubro Chairman & Managing Director AM Naik, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, ICICI Bank Managing Director & CEO Chanda Kochhar, Britannia Industries Managing Director Vinita Bali, former ICICI Bank MD & CEO KV Kamath, and Bharti Group Chairman Sunil Mittal.
Power
Gujarat will become a powerhouse as there are 23 power plants in the state of which 9 are thermal power plants. The state has some leading power generation companies including Tata Power Ltd, Adani Power Ltd, Torrent Power Ltd, NTPC Ltd. Moreover it is gifted with enough of both renewable and non renewable sources, e.g.300 days of high solar radiation levels, on wind energy front it has recorded 99.6% of maximum generation.
Future Prospects-Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has announced Rs 80,000 crore investment in ports, power sector and infrastructure in Gujarat at the fifth edition of Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2011.In power generation while they have commissioned 2,000 MW at Mundra, additional 2,600 MW will be commissioned by March 2012. Further we are also building 3,300 MW at Bhadreshwar in Kutch, 600 MW at Dahej and 4,000 MW at Dholera Special Investment Region(SIR). In Rann of Kutch there will be an Solar Power Park spread across 3000 acres of land, will see Rs.15000 crore of investment and produce 1000 MW of power. Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group also said it will invest Rs 50,000 crore in the state in the next 5-7 years on various projects in power and cement.


Shipping Industry
Gujarat is emerging the hub for global ship building industry with huge investments pouring to give a complete makeover. Already companies have pull up their socks for initiating work at Dahej, Navlakhi, Mandvi and Bhavnagar. Alang is already one of the world’s largest ship breaking yard.
Gujarat handled a total cargo of 1528.14 lakh tons up by 4% against 1475 lakh crore. Gujarat Marine Board(GMB) has identified Dahej to be a global maritime destination and as an ideal location for maritime R&D and 10 more Greenfield sites for development as direct berthing deep water ports
The main companies working on it are Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd in Saurashtra region and Gujarat Adani Port Ltd at Mundra in Kutch.
Corridor Development
Government has already proposed Rs 3.6 lakh crore 1500-km-long Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor(DMIC). India is in process of developing world class industrial regions in the corridor between Delhi and Mumbai which will be equipped with an array of infrastructure facilities such as power,rail. The DMIC will cover approximately 180 million people,14 % of Indian Population.
Also Mitsubishi and Hitachi are planning to establish a number of Smart Eco Cities in DMIC region of Gujarat e.g. First smart Eco City to come up in the state will be at Dholera with an area of 900km2.
Siemens India is planning to set up a wind turbine manufacturing unit in Gujarat at an investment of Rs.500 crore, which will generate 200MW a year.
Reason behind success of Gujarat
Real sustainable development and growth goes beyond marketing and showcasing and that is what’s happening in Gujarat Every Gujarati as a brand in himself. It is the business acumen, hard work and will power of each and every Gujarati,that has put Gujarat on the top. In the success story of Gujarat what is more important is public participation. In addition to public participation mentioned earlier, the products of Gujarat speak for themselves and Gujarat’s success rests not with Narendra Modi but with TEAM GUJARAT.
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