Chief Minister Narendra Modi today invited all landlocked states to
set up their seaports along Gujarat’s 1,600-km long coastline and enjoy
the status of maritime states.
Speaking at the second session of the Bharatiya Janata Party ruled
states’ chief ministers’ conference in New Delhi, he said that Gujarat’s
coast has become a gateway to India’s prosperity and its doors are open
for other states for global trade.
Even as Gujarat had established its identity as a global business
hub, he extended a very special invitation to other Indian states to
participate in the next Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS)
to be held in January 2013. It has emerged as a ‘Davos in Action’ with
110 countries and 19 Indian states participating in the previous VGGIS
in 2011.
He said that the biennial mega event is no more restricted to attract
investment and projects in Gujarat, but in other states as well. Any
Indian state is welcome to use the VGGIS platform to negotiate projects
with any nation or prospective investor. He expected positive response
from other BJP and NDA-ruled states to his invitation, as well as from
UPA-ruled states.
Mr. Modi attributed Gujarat’s exponential all round development
during the last ten years to the state’s ‘Pro-people Proactive Good
Governance’ (P2G2) pattern. Alongside industrial development, he said,
the state has brought 37-lakh hectares of additional land under
cultivation through sustained campaigns during ‘krishi mahotsavs’ with
people’s participation in scientific management of land, precision
farming, issuing soil health cards to farmers, optimum utilization of
water resources, value-addition, earmarking wastelands near seacoasts
and the rann for industries. No wonder if the state registered 10
percent growth rate in agriculture.
In the field of energy, he said, Gujarat has shown to the world a new
initiative in generating canal-based solar power, saving land as well
as solar panels atop canals saving evaporation. With the rising cost of
fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, he said, Gujarat’s initiative for
renewable energy has become a ‘game changer’.
While the Centre’s power policy had pushed half the nation into an
era of darkness, he said that Gujarat has capacity to provide up to
2,000mw power free-of-cost if the Centre allocates its due gas to the
state.
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