Gujarat Discussions Thread

[gandhi.rushabh1992]

60 kms are not that near. How much time will a person from, say Naroda or Shahibaug or even Gandhinagar, take to reach the airport? They have to first cover the entire city (around 35-40 kms) and then the 60 kms.

How ironic it seems that to fly 500 kms to Mumbai, one has to travel 100 kms (1/5th of the distance) by land.

You need at least 1.5 hours to reach the airport. Another 2 hours in the airport. Then 1 hour in the plane. Another 1 hour at Mumbai airport. And then the time taken to travel to your destination. Total 5.5 to 6 hours. Compare that with around 5-6 hours taken when travelling by expressway, which will be completed around the same time as the airport. Even Shatabdi Express takes only 7 hours. So what is the benefit of flying if it takes as much time as land travelling. (I took Mumbai as an example as around 25% traffic from Ahmedabad is Mumbai bound)

[vadodra007]

AMD Mumbai is not a great example, if Govt had better planning this would be high speed rail territory. However, Fedara is the only chance Gujarat has to have World class airport. It is central enough to feed traffic from a large area. Plus building on a large tract offers cargo plus true hub-spoke possibility even though in India's case with limited possibility. For instance with free aviation fuel available in Abu Dhabi and Qatar, no one in their right mind will plan a hub in India where Govt taxes anything and everything to subsidize the numerous Nehru Yojanas.

[gandhi.rushabh1992]

I agree, Federa Airport in itself is a wonderful concept, but if it serves as the main and only airport of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, then it is not such a good idea.

[Indtrans]

Hi Guys,

I tried to visit GSRTC thread on its second i. e. last page. But getting IE error. Anybody can please check and suggest solution on this.

[vnkotak]

The State of Gujarat today took another lead in being the first in the country to launch its star tourism campaign, ‘Khushboo Gujarat Ki’ featuring megastar Amitabh Bachchan, on a Delhi Metro Train in the national capital in an attempt to showcase diversity of Gujarat tourism in its entirety.

Shri Vipul Mittra, Principal Secretary Tourism, Government of Gujarat and Shri Sanjay Kaul, Commissioner of Tourism & Managing Director, Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TGCL) jointly flagged off the branded train at the Reliance New Delhi Metro Station today.

The Gujarat Tourism is branding one entire Delhi Metro Train for a period of three months to promote its ‘Khushboo Gujarat Ki’ campaign. The highlights of the campaign are branded in both the outer body and insides of the metro train.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Vipul Mitra said that no other state tourism board has roped in the services of the Delhi Metro so far as what Gujarat Tourism has done. By dedicating an entire Metro Train to its tourism campaign, the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd aims to seek better mileage in the national capital and tourist influx to Gujarat.

“Khushboo Gujarat Ki campaign is two and a half years old and since its launch with Shri Amitabh Bachchan as its brand ambassador, the rate of growth of tourism in Gujarat has doubled as compared to the national growth rate. There has been a 400 percent rise in tourists to Kachchh and this year more than 2 crore travellers are expected to visit the State,” Shri Mittra told media persons.

He pointed out that Gujarat Tourism works on a 3-pronged strategy with the first being promoting Gujarat as a fast emerging most exciting tourism destination. Secondly, by creating common infrastructure like excellent connectivity by roads and trains, security apparatus in place, information centres, sanitation and other facilities to ensure adequate safety and comfort of the tourists. Third and most importantly, to focus on the PPP mode to rope in the private sector to come and invest in Gujarat by setting up commercial ventures like hotels and resorts.

Talking about the USP of Gujarat Tourism, Shri Mitra said, “The USP of Gujarat Tourism is its diversity of tourism products. It is being promoted as a complete family destination, since in Gujarat there is practically everything to cater to the tastes of the tourists, whether it is mega events like Navratri or Rann Utsav, Asiatic Lions at Gir Sanctuary or the pristine beaches, remnants of Indus Valley civilization at Dholavira and the magnificent temples of Somanth and Dwarka. Be it monuments, temples or desert, Gujarat has it all.”

After excelling to new heights in infrastructure, agriculture and other development rated projects, the State Government brought in tourism as an icing on the cake, the senior official said adding Gujarat Tourism is a mode for development and means for diversity and prosperity.

Shri Sanjay Kaul, in his welcome address, said that it is essentially trade which is pushing Gujarat tourism the way it should be with trade associations and media continue to promote Gujarat as a preferred
tourist destination.

The year 2012 has ushered in with international accolades coming for the State of Gujarat which has been ranked as the third best unsung tourist destination of the world by Lonely Planet.

Link: http://deshgujarat.com/2012/03/07/gu...rport-express/

[vnkotak]

Found the video of the train tooo...

Nice initiative Gujarat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex7mJL858ho

Don't know how to add video on the post.. so just posting the link

[GJ10]

Originally Posted by vnkotak

Found the video of the train tooo...

Nice initiative Gujarat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex7mJL858ho

Don't know how to add video on the post.. so just posting the link

Nice find!

To post videos, just copy the part of the url after "v=" is the video code, ie for this one its ex7mJL858ho

That code then needs to go in youtube brackets [ youtube ] [ /youtube ] with no spaces!

Put it all together and you get:

[vnkotak]

Thanks GJ10 for the information...

By the way.. as I see your username is GJ10.. Are you from Jamnagar or just like that u have opted for this?

[gandhi.rushabh1992]

I am surprised Congress did not create any problems over this

[GJ10]

Originally Posted by vnkotak

Thanks GJ10 for the information...

By the way.. as I see your username is GJ10.. Are you from Jamnagar or just like that u have opted for this?

Well, im from the UK, but my family are originally from Jamnagar so thats why I chose that username.

From your posts, it seems you have links to Rajkot?

[vnkotak]

Same goes with me too.. I m from UK too, and my family comes from Rajkot.. so have some special bond with Rajkot...

Originally Posted by GJ10

Well, im from the UK, but my family are originally from Jamnagar so thats why I chose that username.

From your posts, it seems you have links to Rajkot?

[GJ10]

Gujarat posts record 16% growth in Agriculture for FY11

Gujarat posted a record 16.63% growth in agriculture during 2010/11, way above the national average growth that hovered around 4%, the state assembly was informed on Monday.

Agriculture minister Dilip Sanghani said on Monday in the assembly that the state's agriculture growth for 2010-11 was 16.63% compared to national average of 4%.

Speaking during discussion on the budgetary demands of agriculture and related segments, the minister said that "Gujarat's average agriculture growth rate in the decade of 2001-2010 has been 10.67% and for the year 2010-11 the growth has been 16.63%."

The agriculture income for the year 2010-11 was estimated at Rs80,000 crore compared to only Rs14,663 crore in 2000-01, he added.

Congress state unit president and Porbander MLA Arjun Modhvadia objected to the figures given by the minister alleging that he was giving selective figures to the assembly. However, the objection was overruled by the speaker.

Meanwhile, during the discussion, the minister charged that the Union government was adopting dual standards with regard to export of cotton and mutton what with the Centre encouraging export of mutton by giving subsidies while creating hurdles for farmers of Gujarat by banning export of cotton.

[gandhi.rushabh1992]

Unbelievable figures!!! More than 4 times the national average.

Another pathetic Congress attempt failed.

[GJ10]

TN trying to "out-Gujarat" Gujarat?

Blueprint for Infrastructure in Gujarat: 2020 (pdf 6.93mb)

Tamil Nadu: Vision 2023 (pdf 2.6mb)

Their plan will undoubtedly get scrapped when they vote the opposition back into power again at next election. But an interesting comparison nonetheless.

[aks_sky]

For a 2023 plan it doesnt sound too bad but its like you said, its trying to out - gujarat gujarat. What would be more interesting is to see how these projects are put into place, everything looks good on paper but can this government implement it.

[GJ10]

Yeah, its a def a good plan (cos its Gujarats plan!) only diff is BJP won 4 elections in a row before announcing such long-term visions, whereas TN switches power regularly, not quite the same foundation for stuff like this.

Either way, will be glad if every state tries to do this kind of thing. Its about time that the different Indian states actually started to compete with each other an push each other forward in the same way as has happened with certain cities.

[gandhi.rushabh1992]

Before all the paperwork of all these schemes is complete and the funding is arranged, Jaya amma will make way for Thattha or or one of his sons. They are sort of playing some super-slow game of 'pass the parcel'

[aks_sky]

Two very interesting documents with stats and figures relating to the Socio - Economic development of Gujarat and the other being of Fiscal responsibility and meeting deadlines for its targets.


Socio - Economic

Fiscal responsibility

[GJ10]

Originally Posted by aks_sky

Two very interesting documents with stats and figures relating to the Socio - Economic development of Gujarat and the other being of Fiscal responsibility and meeting deadlines for its targets.


Socio - Economic

Fiscal responsibility

Nice finds man!

Its really good to see that there is improvement being made on the social development front. While its become very fashionable for ppl to use social indicators in Gujarat as a criticism for the economic growth, its very rare to see comparative figures thrown into the mix.

I think its only a matter of a few years before we really see the dividends of some of the changes that have been happening over the last decade, especially in health/education.

Primary school dropout rate has really plummeted since State Govt has put real attention into this area. In about 5yrs time, that breakthrough batch will be finishing high school.



Child sex ratio is quite interesting, improvements in pretty much every urban figure, whereas overall trend for India was a worsening in urban areas. But a mixed set of results for rural areas. Significant improvements seen in some of the areas with the worst ratios in 2001


In general, many social indicators are still poor compared other states, but looking at historical stats shows that we have actually come a long way even if there is still a way to go.

[GJ10]

And coming to the Congresses favourite punching bag, the Vibrant Gujarat Summits!

Of course, not every project will come into reality, but the important thing to remember is to look at the bigger picture. Before the land-bank policy came into play, there was always a delay due to land acquisition and even now, environmental and other central clearances have to be factored in. Besides that, projects in certain sectors, esp Energy, Ports, Construction, usually tend to have seperate phases within them, so all things considered, its not really that surprising if vast amounts of the money isnt seen straight away.



The amount implented and under implementation is still pretty staggering. Were talking over Rs 10 lakh crore, def not an amount than can be s******ed away with cries of "paper projects" or "hype".

Now that few years have passed, the early summits are all at 60-70% of proposed investments implemented/under implementation.

A lot of the projects announced in 09 summit and especially 11 summit were focussed on the DMIC, hopefully as that project inches itself closer to reality, we will see more of the projects get moving.

That said, 13% implemented/under implentation of the proposed investments from 2011 summit is pretty good, considering the count was done 10months after the event itself!