Is Gujarat's red hot economy a myth?

[miss]

Our system is relatively more centralized, but I'm sure that you must have heard of some of our regional politicians like Bo Xilai etc.

yeah i have, but I had not heard about him until the recent episode. I have no idea who are the other 'Governors' of other provinces.

 

[Zeeshan360]

am french..

on topic: it has nothing to do with leadership no (gujrath is already what it was before modi) i have nothing to do with indian leaders or politics, i was merely answering your queries & correcting your misconceptions,

As a chinese you would want to see a hindu fanatic in power, cuz that will help you de-stabalise india further by alienating 400 million plus populace,

Your style of writing is typical Indian/Pakistani

French lol .. What a joke

 

[Marxist]

BBC edited the article new head line is Gujarat IS a red hot economy ....click on the first link by superkaif u can see it ...

BBC News - Gujarat IS a red hot economy

 

[Marxist]

The Gujarat growth gaffe: Social media calls bluff

The Gujarat growth gaffe: Social media calls bluff | Firstpost

social media forced those big media houses to change their articles ....a big victory over Paid media culture in India

 

[livingdead]

Look at the stats here
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/177398-gujarats-red-hot-economy-myth-5.html#post2893511


You have no good intentions about India and unforunate some Indians can't see that.

By your logic, Karunanidhi or Jayalalitha should be PM because TN average growth rate is higher than Gujarat. Apply the same to the other 4 states who have had higher growth rate.

Even with the current govt. and global economic crisis, India growth rate was higher than China in 2010 at 10.4% according to IMF.

IF Indians want Modi to be PM or not, it will be the decision of the Indian public. You just revel in the fact that you have no choice in choosing your leader and if you try to choose your leader, you will killed like those CHinese in 1989 protests or the 30 million under Mao.

Both pro and anti Modi are being dishonest about gujrat. Most gujratis I have met tell about transformation of gujrat and how things have dramatically improved. That is not easily digested by secularists.

However this does not mean Modi can be exonerated (wrt his role in riots), that is a separate issue. A right winger person like him can be a good administrator but can he be a good PM ( who has to be a consencus maker rather than administrator).

Modi has zero chance of being PM, even BJP will not think of making him a contender. Also, RSS does not seem to like him a lot.

 

[Tshering22]

Is Gujarat's so-called red-hot economic growth a myth peddled by the government of the controversial chief minister Narendra Modi?

Mr Modi, who was blamed for not doing enough to stop the horrific 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state after the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, has modelled himself as a no-nonsense economic reformer leading one of India's fastest-growing states.

In March, a senior minister of his cabinet told me that Gujarat has been recording scorching double-digit growth, prompting even The Economist magazine to call it India's Guangdong. "Modi Means Business" said Time magazine when it put him on the cover recently.

But a raft of recent articles in the Indian media suggest that that Mr Modi's claims may be overblown.

Examining data on the economic performance of Indian states during a seven-year-period - 2004-11 - AK Bhattacharya, editor of Business Standard, is puzzled by Gujarat's performance.

He finds that its economy grew by 6.3% annually during this period, up from average growth every year of 3.6% - a relatively low base - in a 10-year period ending 2003.
'Breakout' state?

More interestingly, states like Uttarkhand (13.2%), Bihar (10.9%), Maharashtra (10.7%), Tamil Nadu (10.4%) and Haryana (10.1%) recorded double-digit growth in the seven-year period under review.

None of these states have the kind of hype associated with them as does Mr Modi's Gujarat, which is often called the most business friendly state in India.

Of the five states with double-digit growth, Mr Bhattacharya notes, three are ruled by the Congress party, which has come under fire in the capital for going slow on economic reforms!

So is Gujarat really the "breakout" state that Mr Modi wants the world to believe?

"It has seen the most stable of governments for the last several years," Mr Bhattacharya writes. "And yet, it has seen its growth hovering around 6% for the last seven years." Is there something amiss?

Analyst Salil Tripathi has written about how "of all the hype surrounding Mr Modi, the oddest are some of the claims concerning the state's economic performance". Gujarat, he says, "has done well in recent years, but it lost ground soon after the riots, picking up pace only later".

Mr Tripathi writes about how states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have bigger economies, and Gujarat actually spends more than it has earned, thus depleting its surpluses.

Gujarat also signed on to a fiscal responsibility law only after five other states did, and 20 states preceded Gujarat in implementing value added tax.

I have written in the past on how Gujarat fares the worst among Indian states in terms of overall hunger and malnutrition - 45% of children there are malnourished, according to the latest Indian Human Development report.

The state also has a poor record in checking infant and maternal mortality. And as journalist Hartosh Singh Bal pointed out recently, Gujarat's ranking among states in terms of literacy (18th) had actually slipped one place, the year Mr Modi took over.

"These figures belie Mr Modi's reputation as an efficient administrator" he wrote. "But you wouldn't know it reading the foreign media."

So is Mr Modi a spinmeister or is there something everybody is missing?

BBC News - Is Gujarat's red hot economy a myth?

Another secularist garbage...

One has to just go and visit Gujarat and see for themselves rather than believing the cowardly little secularist cats. They're an entertaining bunch. Wonder how a band of nobodies got to such a position of power by projecting another joker as "father of nation" all these years.

Both pro and anti Modi are being dishonest about gujrat. Most gujratis I have met tell about transformation of gujrat and how things have dramatically improved. That is not easily digested by secularists.

That's because they cannot digest a leader strong enough to protect the country and if they don't praise him, their bread and butter that comes from overseas for demonizing nationalists, would stop and they would die a stray's death.

Besides, it doesn't really matter much because most secularists are characterless and will sell the nation at a moment's notice.

Modi has zero chance of being PM, even BJP will not think of making him a contender. Also, RSS does not seem to like him a lot.

BJP will collapse like a pack of cards without Modi. That's the reality because of which egoistic dolts like Jaitley and Swaraj have not disowned him for secularist vermin's votes.

 

[Manas]

BBC edited the article new head line is Gujarat IS a red hot economy ....click on the first link by superkaif u can see it ...

BBC News - Gujarat IS a red hot economy

Modi baiter rush too fast to fall over his head.