Frontier India Current Affairs

Written on April 20, 2008 – 4:05 pm | by FICA |

Besides building a Nano-city and Gujarat international financial tax city (GIFT) at Gandhinagar, the Gujarat administration would also be connecting all of its villages with broadband facilities in next two months, the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr. Narendra Modi disclosed here on Saturday.

Mr. Modi said that the hundred storied nano city would have ultra modern facilities from human resources development to process houses for which the process for construction could shortly commence.

Likewise, the proposed GIFT would be built by one company that created Shanghai in China for which necessary formalities are being completed, announced the Chief Minister.

Mr. Modi refused to give further details for the proposed nano city and GIFT, however, added that since Gujarat has become number one IT power in entire Asia and number two in the world, it is committed to provide broadband facilities to all its villages in next 65 days time.

Mr. Modi said that in the fiscal year of 2007-08 which came to end on March 31st, the state of Gujarat has achieved an agricultural income of Rs. 1,23,000,00 crore with agricultural growth rate of 11% against an all India average agri GDP of around 3% .

According to Mr Modi, the agricultural income of Gujarat during 2001-02 was Rs. 9,000 crore only and its agriculture flourished in the last 5 years and today the situation is such that the state’s farmers are making their transactions in the field itself.

“The state has concentrated more towards creation of infrastructure, be it water grid, pipeline network, It network , port and rail and air network, Gujarat is the best“, claimed the chief Minister.

Mr. Modi said that within a span of seven hundred days, the Gujarat laid a water pipeline measuring 1400 KM to supply drinking water to 800 villages. Similarly the state would be creating petroleum pipeline network to ensure that entire Gujarat is connected with Gas pipeline network.

He called upon Indian Inc. to participate in Gujarat invest summit, schedule for January 12 & 13, 2009 and park its investment as in next few years the entire Gujarat and its costal areas would not have an inch of land to absorb investment.