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Gujarat posts 12.8% agriculture growth, highest in India

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has another reason to brag during the elections. Not only has he grabbed the Nano plant from West Bengal, he has also stolen Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's thunder in agriculture. CNBC-TV18's Economic Policy Editor Vivian Fernandes reports how India's foremost industrial state is making gains on the farming front.
Here is a verbatim transcript of Vivian Fernandes’s comments on CNBC-TV18. Also see the accompanying video.
Whether it is investments or his drives for improved child nutrition, girl child enrolment, hospital deliveries or rural sanitation, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is never short of bragging points. Now, he has more reason for immodesty. Against a national average of 2.8% in a five year period to 2006-07, the latest year for which state-wise data is available, Gujarat has become the fastest growing state agriculturally. It clocked a growth rate of 12.8% after a decline during the previous five years and higher growth during the early 1990s, but a smart bounce nonetheless in view of a severe drought in 2002-03.
Ashok Gulati, Director-in-Asia, The International Food Policy Research Institute, said, "There is a mystery a bit of it but that is also a way that Gujarat can show to the rest of the country that agriculture is not a 2% growth, it can be 12% growth story per annum."
In contrast, West Bengal is the worst performing in agriculture. Farming in the state is in secular decline from 5.3% in the early 1990s to 3.9% during the next five years, and less than half that growth during the latest five year period. Poor farming performance should be a cause of concern for the left front government that parades its land reforms.
"Large number of people are dependent on agriculture and one has to find out what has gone wrong after operation burger which was acclaimed so much but no more.," Gulati added.
There are several factors for Gujarat's agricultural performance. Among them water from the Narmada, investments in check dams, widespread cultivation of genetically-modified cotton, a dedicated power grid for the farming sector that assures regular supply during non-peak hours, and rejuvenation of the extension system by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. These factors will be further analysed to find out how much growth can be attributed to each of them.
Another surprise is Bihar whose average agricultural growth has virtually doubled over a 10 year period. Perhaps, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has something to do with it.
The researchers do not have a handle on why West Bengal's agriculture performance is sagging. They will have to study, among other things, why rice yields are stagnating at half the potential in a water-rich state, and why there is inadequate diversification into higher-value fruits, vegetables, livestock, and fishing and dairy .
West Bengal's agricultural decline would have been understandable if industry had picked up the slack. Overall, the state ranks middle among Indian states, but it is a story not of growth but of decline over time.

 

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Development is happening in Gujarat: Maulana Vastanvi

MUZAFFARNAGAR: Amid controversy over his remarks on Narendra Modi, Maulana Gulam Mohammad Vastanvi, who has announced his decision to resign as vice chancellor of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband, has said that people in Gujarat felt that development is happening in the state.

"The people of Gujarat agree on the fact that development is happening in the state and everyone whether a Hindu or a Muslim is there," he said

 

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Gujarat and the rhetoric of development


Recently, two high profile publications, the Economist and the New York Times, highlighted the development in Gujarat under CM Narendra Modi. Both articles* had a similar theme: Gujarat has seen tremendous growth, currently at 11% (above national average) under Modi, but Modi's reputation is tarnished by the 2002-riots, which remains in the national public memory.

So, while he may lack appeal on the national political stage, investors are nonetheless willing to spend billions of dollars in Gujarat. Vibrant Gujarat, an investors' summit held in Gujarat in January, saw businesses promising a staggering, and unlikely, investment figure of 450 billion dollars in the next couple of years.

The rhetoric in Gujarat regarding development is incredibly interesting. I have had brief exchanges with street vendors in Ahmedabad who have attributed their prosperity directly to the Honourable CM Modi. Some folks speak of him in highly reverent tones. But, then of course, there is also an ugly side. Anumeha Yadav's article, in Tehelka magazine this week, looks at the abuses of the law that stand side-by-side Gujarat's very-friendly investment climate, particularly examining land-use policies in the designated Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of the Kutch region.

She writes keenly on the situation:

The shrill rhetoric has gone from “investment drive” to “inclusive growth”, but the numbers reveal where the gains end up. The Survey of Industries data shows workers’ share as wages in Gujarat has fallen from 23 to 8 percent. The gap between incomes of the rich and the poor has risen to more than the national average, says a 2010 paper by Rajesh Shukla of the National Council of Applied Economics Research.

Planning Commission data shows that between 1993 and 2005, Gujarat slipped from sixth to eighth spot among 20 major states in the percentage of poor living below the poverty line. Despite high growth, its rate of reducing poverty was among the lowest, worse than West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. In human development index, it slipped from fifth to ninth place.

A 2010 report by IFPRI, a US-based research organisation supported by 64 governments, put Gujarat among the five worst performing states in India in reducing hunger, along with Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.


But critics say it is increasingly difficult to be heard over the shrill rhetoric. “If you question anything, you are labelled anti- Gujarat and anti-development,” says economist Dr Indira Hirway, who co-authored Gujarat’s Human Development Report, 2004.


“Industrialisation in Gujarat is not decided by market forces but by government concessions to a few industrial groups. This is crony capitalism, not even a free-market or a neo-liberal paradigm. Tough questions make the government angry; they ask why you are sticking your nose into these matters.”


Gujarat was among the top five states in per capita income since the 1960s but new policies are benefiting a handful at the cost of the majority, and the environment,” says Hirway.

It seems that there are always "losers" in development. And, certainly the Modi government seems to be doing little to convince us otherwise.

 

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India’s Lalit Modi: A criminal, A thief, A drug Addict. Catch him and Imprison him.

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India’s Lalit Modi: A criminal, A thief, A drug Addict. Catch him and Imprison him.

If you feel the anger and frustration at a man who has stolen millions out of a not for profit firm (BCCI) and swindled the money out of India and now evades the Indian tax authrorities by refusing to come back to India, as fellow countrymen, we request you to email and share the information on Lalit Modi to everyone. Continuing our crusade against corruption in India, having featured Sonia Gandha (and here), Sharad Pawar, Mukesh Ambani, Rahul Gandhi, we now feature Lalit Modi, a thief and mafia in his own sense. How can a country of a billion stand watching helplessly as he swindles millions and refusing to even come to India even after his passport has been revoked. How dare he?

This man has a criminal record which fits the profile of a thief, drug addict and potential murderer during his college days at Duke University.

On March 1, 1985, while a sophomore at Duke University, Modi was arrested on charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. On April 2, 1985, Modi and another student were indicted on second-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor charge of assault inflicting serious injury and conspiracy to kidnap. Modi pleaded guilty to the crime when the case was heard in the Durham County court, North Carolina and later entered a plea bargain, which resulted in a suspended two year prison sentence. Modi moved the court again in 1986 after he graduated from Duke University, he sought permission to move to India on health grounds. The court ordered: “As a fact the defendant has been hospitalized. His doctors indicate that a return to his home in India would facilitate his recovery… The said probation be modified to unsupervised probation. As a condition, the defendant is to perform 200 hours of community service by 1990. He may return to his home…”.

An article in Tehelka magazine alleges that Modi was involved in a court case for cocaine abuse as recently as 2006 in the UAE.

Family Business

Modi is the President and Managing Director of Modi Enterprises, an industrial conglomerate created and run by his family. Modi has been the Executive Director of Godfrey Phillips India since 1992, one of India’s largest tobacco company. The company is jointly promoted by the Modi Enterprises and Philip Morris International. Modi started a 10-year joint venture with Walt Disney Pictures in 1993, called Modi Entertainment Networks (MEN), to broadcast some of Disney’s content in India including Fashion TV. In 1994, he became the pan-India distributor of ESPN on a 5-year contract. His job was to collect money from the cable wallas in India in exchange for them broadcasting ESPN. However, ESPN was having “money issues” and took Modi to court. In 1997 ESPN established its distribution team, before the contract was due to expire in 1999.

Modi’s joint venture with Walt Disney Pictures, called Modi Entertainment Networks (MEN), gave Modi a 10-year contract to distribute Disney’s programmes in India. He also has a joint venture with Fashion TV.

In 2002, he launched an online lottery business in Kerala called Sixo.

He later went into the real estate business in Rajasthan, with a company called Amer Heritage City Construction Pvt Ltd, his wife Minal, is a director.

Lalit Modi given his criminal past and incredibly coloured list of business interests is no light weight but a powerful force to reckon with. He has made a fool of many and to the utter dismay of BCCI, it was next in Line as Modi stole a record $100 mn right under their nose through the recast TV rights.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has severed anagreement with World Sport Group (WSG) Mauritius granting it Indian Premier League (IPL) television broadcast rights. The board has said a “facilitation fee” document in this agreement is “vitiated by fraud”.



The global broadcast rights for IPL were originally bought in 2008 by WSG for ten years for more than 900 million dollars. The TV rights for India were then allotted by WSG to Multi Screen Media (MSM, earlier Sony Entertainment Television).

However, in 2009, the IPL cancelled the MSM contract, citing, among other reasons, poor-quality broadcasts. MSM went to court, but after a tough legal battle, decided on an out-of-court settlement. The new deal saw MSM paying more than a billion dollars to hold on to the TV rights for the remaining nine years. The agreement also stipulated that Sony MSM would pay WSG a facilitation fee of Rs 425 crore. BCCI members have said earlier that they had no prior knowledge of this deal and have called the facilitation fee an “improper payment.”

Given the fact that Modi has refused to entertain any requests to breakdown of the flow of funds of Rs 425 Cr given as facilitation fee, it is almost now sure that Modi and his family businesses have become richer to the tune of many hundreds of Crores.

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The American equivalent of Lalit Modi would be Don King the flamboyant and always controversial boxing promoter. Given below is a list of other infamous people Lalit Modi is in the company of. I should also tell you that each of these people rode the wave of their time (such as the 20-20 cricket wave), managed to get plenty of media coverage, some became binafide media darlings before the truth came out.

1. Sant Singh Chatwal: NRI hotelier. Milked his closeness to the Clintons to riches in America and a Padma award in 2010 in India. Charge-sheeted by the CBI in a fraud case.
2. Amity directors Ashok Kumar Chauhan and Arun Kumar Chauhan: Face an international arrest warrant. Reportedly, Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice against them for alleged frauds committed in Federal Republic of Germany.
3. Ramalingam Raju, Satyam: Milked more than Rs. 5000 crore out of a pioneering IT outsourcing firm.
4. Sanjay Aggarwal: Director of Home Trade Limited. Got Sachin Tendulkar and other famous people to do ads for his financial services portal. Took money from many people. faces 21 criminal cases in India
5. Rajendra Sethia: In the Guinness book of world records as the world’s biggest personal bankruptcy case. Lost more than 170 million pounds, most of it owed to several Indian banks.
6. Ketan Parekh: Kingpin of the 2000-01 Indian stock market scam.
7. Rita Singh: Head of the Mesco group. Scammed Rs 300 crore out of investors. Ran for the Loksabha elections on a Congress ticket in 1998.
8. Vinay Rai: Chairman of Usha India. Siphoned off Rs 450 crore using a web of 250 companies during 1997-2000.
9. Rajan Pillai: Biscuit King, who was reportedly facing ‘criminal proceedings’ in Singapore. Died in Tihar jail, at age 47 under mysterious circumstances in 1995. He was sick (cirhosis of liver) but no care was given. Had a long-going feud with Nusli Wadi.
10. CR Bhansali: Raised 1100 cr and ‘made it vanish into thin air’. Arrested in 1997. Now out of jail.
11. Harshad Mehta: The original stock market scam artist, who threatened to take down the PM Narsimha Rao with him. Died at early age of 44.
12. Subroto Roy: Founder of the Sahara group, the large RNBC Company. Until date, few of Sahara investments have made money. But Roy knows how to stay in the limelight and have the right political connections.
13. Abishek Verma: Flamboyant son of a Congress leader, he is your typical Delhi fixer, always seen at the big parties. CBI chargesheeted him in Naval War Room leak case.
14. Osho Rajneesh: Controversial godman who really ‘made’ it in United States. Mahesh Bhatt and Vinod Khanna were his disciples once. When he died, he owned 99 Rolls Royces. Osho is the prototyype for all the fraud sadhus of the world.
15. Dhirubhai Ambani: In his heydey, he took on big businessmen of his age, used his political links to Congress to destroy and conquer, creating a huge monopoly in process. His younger son, Anil Ambani is similarly flamboyant. For more, start by watching “Guru”.

Lalit Modi is an absconder and his sheer mention makes us angry and irritated on our helplessness to find him, interrogate him and imprison him if found guilty. This man is risk to not just India but even UK and it is important that London police find him and deport him back to India before he flees to another country.

I have faith in the Chidambaram led home ministry but it baffles me at the speed with which Modi is being investigated. Bollywood stars like Shilpa Shetty, who for her own good I cant remember when was the last time when this dumpster of a person used her common sense. You only need to read her tweets and listen to her Press conferences). I am pretty certain that Raj wealth has seen his peak the day before his marriage to Shipa. Then there is Vijya Mallaya who was all support to Lalit Modi. Guess all I can say is he is Liquour Barron, Enuf Said.

I request as millions of other Indian sports lovers, Lalit Modi has to be arrested. His wealth needs to analysed. Every single company under his umbrella needs to be investigated. I have reasons to believe that this man along with his family group companies have swindled far more than what is put in the press.

Lalit Modi needs to be brought to Justice but given India’s dubious record, my great fear is that the government could not care less.

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I think they are in Telugu...its of telengana issue..but the entrtainer has no issue.

 

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A Divisive Indian Official Is Loved by Businesses


GANDHINAGAR, India — In a soaring, unfinished conference hall in western India, thousands of businessmen and diplomats from around the world gathered recently for an investment meeting. They were there to pay homage to a politician for accomplishing something once thought almost impossible in India: making it easy to do business.
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The Canadian company Bombardier built a manufacturing plant in Savli, Gujarat, in 18 months, “a world record within Bombardier,” one executive said.
The politician, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the state of Gujarat, sat onstage, stroking his close-cropped white beard, as executives from the United States, Canada, Japan and elsewhere showered him with praise.

Ron Somers, head of an American trade group, called him a progressive leader. Michael Kadoorie, a Hong Kong billionaire, enveloped him in a hug.

“I would encourage you all to invest here,” Mr. Kadoorie, chairman of the Asian power company CLP Group, told the audience, “because it has been an even playing field for me.”

The coastal state of Gujarat, famous as the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, has become an investment magnet. The state’s gross domestic product is growing at an 11 percent annual rate — even faster than the overall growth rate for India, which despite its problems is zipping along at 9 percent clip.

And Mr. Modi receives — some would say claims — much of the credit. The year before he took office in 2001, Gujarat’s economy shrank by 5 percent.

But critics of Mr. Modi, a Hindu nationalist, point to another legacy of his early days in office — something that has made him one of the most polarizing figures in Indian politics. Months after he became chief minister, Gujarat erupted in brutal Hindu-Muslim riots that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.

Despite Mr. Modi’s subsequent denials, he has not fully escaped a cloud of accusations by rival political groups, victims and their families, and human rights groups that he and his aides condoned the attacks against Muslims and — as one case now before the Supreme Court charges — may even have encouraged them.

A special investigation team formed by the Supreme Court has filed a 600-page investigative report on the riots, which has not been officially released. Numerous other lawsuits related to the riots are also winding through India’s courts. In 2005 the United States refused to grant Mr. Modi a visa, on grounds of religious intolerance. Meanwhile, environmental activists and local tribesman who have been protesting the construction of seven dams in Gujarat that will displace 25,000 people say they the protesters have been regularly jailed by the state police, charged with being Naxalites, a militant rebel group.

Mr. Modi, who has declined interview requests from The New York Times for several years, did not comment for this article.

Of the lingering controversies, a spokesman for Mr. Modi, Steven King, with the Washington public relations firm APCO Worldwide, wrote in an e-mail responding to questions: “The government has very highly developed grievance proceedings.”

Corporate executives, though, tend to concentrate on Mr. Modi’s pro-business attributes, which they see as something of an anomaly in an India where government bureaucracy, bumbling or corruption too often impedes commerce.

“In India there is a sense that efficiency is at such a premium because there is so little to go around,” said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell who has served as an adviser to the Indian government. “When people find an effective politician who can make things happen on the ground, they are willing to ignore the character flaws.”

Under Mr. Modi’s watch, the energy companies Royal Dutch Shell and Total have opened a major liquid natural gas terminal in Gujarat, and Torrent Power, an Indian company, has built a huge power plant. Meanwhile, Tata Motors, DuPont, General Motors, Hitachi and dozens of other foreign and Indian companies have built factories, expanded operations or invested in projects in the state.

When the Canadian heavy machinery company Bombardier won a contract to supply subway cars to the Delhi Metro in 2007, it needed a factory site, quickly. It found one in Savli, an industrial estate in Gujarat. Just 18 months later— when in many parts of India, the permit process might still be grinding away — the factory was built and operating.

“It was incredible,” said Rajeev Jyoti, the managing director of Bombardier in India, “and it was a world record within Bombardier.”

Compared with most other states, Gujarat has smoother roads and less garbage next to the streets. More than 99 percent of Gujarat’s villages have electricity, compared with less than 85 percent nationally.

In 2009, Gujarat attracted more planned investment than any other state in the country, about $54 billion by value of announced plans, according to Assocham, a trade association of Indian chambers of commerce.

Mr. Modi, who has no business or economics background, deserves praise for this, corporate leaders say. Before entering politics in his late 30s, he was a religious volunteer for the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which sponsors schools and provides aid during natural disasters, but has also been widely criticized as being intolerant of other religions and of secular Hindus.

In India, where corrupt politicians often seem to be raiding the public coffers to benefit their offspring, Mr. Modi’s success is sometimes attributed to his apparent lack of a family life. Acquaintances and local news reports say he was married at a young age but separated soon after from his wife. Mr. Modi has never commented on reports about his personal life.

Mr. Modi’s administration has brought novel solutions to some of India’s most tenacious problems. Corruption became less widespread after the state government put a large amount of its activities online, from permits that companies need to build or expand, to bids for contracts. To plow through a multiyear backlog of court cases, and prevent day laborers from losing income, Mr. Modi asked judges to work extra hours in night courts

 

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This guy is posting whatever comes in google search as modi ,now am worried about my office colleague Vikram Modi lolrofl:

 

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Mr. Modi uses a chief executive style of managing the bureaucrats who work under him, according to associates and business executives in Gujarat. He gives promising people positions of responsibility, sets goals and expects people to meet them. Nonperformers are pushed aside.
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It may seem an obvious way to administer a state with more than 50 million people and a budget in the billions of dollars.

But this approach runs counter to India’s tradition of cronyism. In a recent reshuffle of India’s national cabinet ministers, for example, the minister of highways who substantially missed targets for road-building was made minister for urban development, a crucial position for a rapidly urbanizing nation struggling to build livable cities.

Even in another state considered pro-business, Tamil Nadu in the south, the ruling party, D.M.K., has been dogged by accusations of corruption.

In Mr. Modi’s case, the accolades once would have been unthinkable. After the Hindu-Muslim riots a decade ago, he was considered a liability for his political party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. But these days, with Gujarat’s soaring economy, Mr. Modi is sometimes mentioned as his party’s most likely candidate for prime minister in 2014, when the next general election is expected.

Despite his lack of executive experience, Mr. Modi’s supporters credit him with a politician’s innate sense of marketing. Images of Mr. Modi were plastered on billboards throughout Gujarat during the investment summit meeting, proclaiming the state’s support not only for investment but for social programs like support of girls’ education — a particularly important subject in India where there is a large literacy gap between men and women.

Within Gujarat, which has a centuries-old reputation for business acumen, even Mr. Modi’s fans sometimes grumble that he and his image makers may be taking outsize credit for its economic growth. And they say that the headline numbers that Mr. Modi’s government trumpets can be misleading.

For example, the $450 billion in “memorandums of understanding” — essentially, pledges to do business in the state — that the government says were signed during the January investment summit meeting double-count some deals, according to businessmen in attendance, because they include loans and investments for the same projects. Mr. Modi’s spokesman confirmed there might be some redundancy in the $450 billion figure, but said it was impossible to break out the loans from the investments.

Yet, no one disputes Gujarat’s rapid growth. And Mr. Modi’s supporters say India’s economic success will depend on each state’s adopting many of the same measures he has employed. India’s central government may apportion budgets and write overall laws, they say, but it is the states that are responsible for overseeing everything from land allocation to electricity distribution.

“If you are an investor in India,” said Mr. Somers, of the United States trade group, “Gujarat must be at the top of your list.”