By Sethuraman Sathappan
An
article from Our Building & Construction June 2014
Narendra
Modi was featured in Time's 2014 Time 100 list of the most influential
people in
the world. And the same has not gone wrong. He has now
become
Prime Minister of India. Times view has not gone wrong.
India,
why Indian alone the world was expecting this for the last few months. The
victory
was certain and only thing many were thinking whether he would get absolute
majority
or go for coalition. There are lot of hard work behind this success. We will
see Narendra Modi past, present and future in this article.
In the
past 13 years, Narendra Modi has transformed his state into a model of what
some
believe India can become — a place of wide, smooth roads, electrified villages,
rising incomes and brand-name foreign investment and local investments.
How
Gujarat has become vibrant?
Gujarat
has constructed 113,738 check dams. In view of this Gujarat managed to increase
its groundwater levels at a time when they were falling in all other Indian
states and for the decade 2001–2010, Gujarat recorded an agricultural growth
rate of 10.97%, the highest among all Indian states.
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Succeeded
in bringing electricity to every village in Gujarat.
He has
built roads and flyovers that ease traffic congestion. His efforts resulted in
10 percent average economic growth for his state between 2004 and 2012,
although the rate has dipped since then.
Encouraged
FDIs into Gujarat which enabled to get more new industries and created
employment opportunities.One of the states to get highest FDI s continuously
for many years. Ensured corruption free administration which is very important
for any
development.
Downside
of growth in Gujarat
Critics
have said that wide-ranging development in Gujarat under Modi has put pressure
on the environment, unfairly displaced farmers and fishermen and done little to
addressing the social problems.
A UNICEF report found that while the state had
tried to improve education and access to clean drinking water, nearly every
second child under 5 was still malnourished.
Gurjarat
and developments
It is not
that Gujarat improved overnight. Since 1960s Gujarat was developing and post
2001 the developments were phenomenal. He has done a wonderful job post 2001 in
Gujarat.
Some
Examples for his driving force
When
Tata’s car manufacturing unit was opposed by locals in West Bengal, Tata was
forced to move the entire factory out of the state and the first one to invite
was Narendra Modi and his government has given the required land and all other
facilities and the factory is now running successfully.
This is
one of the many examples which I can quote.
In any corporate
world the success lies in decision making and that too timely. The same is
applicable to state government and central government also. A decision
taken
late is not useful to anyone. He applied this principle in Gujarat and was
successful.
Election
Manifesto 2014..
Some of
the important agenda in his election manifesto which is mainly development of
the nation.
• Putting
in place strict measures and special courts to stop hoarding and black
marketing.
• Setting
up a Price Stabilisation Fund.
• Unbundling
FCI operations into procurement, storage and distribution for greater
efficiency.
•
Evolving a single National Agriculture Market.
•
Promoting and support area specific crops and vegetables linked to food habits
of the people.
•
Developing high impact domains like labour intensive manufacturing, tourism,
and strengthening traditional employment bases of agriculture
and
allied industry.
•
Harnessing opportunities provided by the upgradation of infrastructure and
housing.
•
Encouraging and empowering youth for self employment and transforming
employment exchanges into career centres.
•
Eliminating corruption through public awareness, e-governance, rationalisation
and simplification of tax regime.
• Ensure
fiscal autonomy of states and creation of regional councils of states of common
problems and concerns.
•
Involving state governments in promotion of foreign trade and commerce.
• Special
emphasis on improving connectivity in Northeast region.
• Massive
infrastructure development in NE region.
•
Complete all pending fencing work along the India-Bangladesh and India-Myanmar
border.
•
Launching a massive Clean Rivers Programme with people’s participation.
•
Pursuing friendly relations with neighbours and at the same time not hesitate
from taking strong stand when required.
•
Strengthening DRDO and encourage private sector participation including FDI in
selected defence industries.
•
Strengthening physical infrastructure with expediting work on freight and
industrial corridors.
• Setting
up of gas grids and national optical fibre network upto the village level.
•
Launching of diamond quadrilateral project of high-speed rail network (Bullet
trains).
Modi and
Infra..
Infrastructure
sector was not looking good for the last few years and need a push for growth.
The above agenda clearly tells that infra is the backbone of the country and
he will
do all out to push the sector.
We are
seeing the growth in stock markets in the recent times including infra
shares
and good things started happening. The day is not far off to see a developed
India under his leadership.
Other Major
Article in Our Building & Construction June 2014
· Evolution
of National Smart Waterways
GRID…Dr APJ Abdul Kalam & V.
Ponraj
· FAQs on
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· CHECK
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OF R.C.C. WORK
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