Modi deserves better from Media.

I have been very upset with both Print & Electronic Media for their role in recent Gujarat Elections. Be it CNN-IBN, NDTV, Times of India... they have not been objective in writing / reporting about Modi. Their focus is to target Modi rather than what he has achieved in last 5 years.

However surprisingly I came across a good article in India Today about Modi Government's achievements in five years.

Here is the Article.

THE MODI MODEL

IF DEVELOPMENT ATONE IS THE CRITERION THEN MODI GETS AAAA+ IN HIS SIX YEAR RULE

JYOTIRGRAM P0WER SCHEME:

The scheme ensures 24 hour, three-phase domestic power supply to all 18,000 Gujarat villages, spurring an economic revolution in villages and reverse migration from city to villages in many parts.

GIRLS' EDUCATION SCHEME:

The main feature is that both ministers and IAS officers go to villages for three days in a year to persuade parents to send their daughters to school. lt has seen the girl drop, out rate in school sliding from 48 to three.

BETI BACHAO ANDOLAN:

The Beti Bachao drive of the Government aimed at preventing female foeticide Through a joint awareness campaign by government, NGO’s and people's Representatives has seen the sex-ratio improve from 802 to 870 since 2001.

INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT:

The success of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investment Summits hosted by Modi received recognition from RBI recently when it pegged the investment coming to Gujarat at Rs 75,000 crore which equals the figures of Maharahtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu put together.

HIGHEST GROWTH RATE IN THE COUNTRY:

Gujarat registered the highest growth rate of 10.6 per cent in the country during the first four years of the 10th five-year plan that ended last March as against the National figure of 7 .2 per cent during the same period.

NON POPULIST GOVERNANCE BASED ON ACCOUNTABILITY:

A largely populist-free model of governance that aims at accountability. lt also means few sops to people. In the power sector the government has not hesitated to slap cases on farmers indulging in power theft. This and other measures ensured that the state's power set-up wiped out a combined loss of Rs 2,200 crore and posted a profit of Rs 200 crore last year. The government could carry out power reforms better and faster than most other states.

GOOD GOVERNANCE MARKED BY FISCAL DISCIPLINE:

Gujarat became a revenue surplus state from a revenue deficit state after a gap of 15 years. The revenue deficit was Rs 6,700 crore when Modi took over in 2001. Two state PSUs Gujarat State Fertilizer Company and Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals which were running into losses turned into profit-making units.

PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION:

The Government has tried to involve people in governance, creating a rare model of people's participation. For example, the urban development drive to upgrade small municipal towns last year sent the tax collections soaring simply because the people were motivated to pay their taxes. Developmental works worth Rs 300 crores were also carried out with the help of private donations. When it celebrated e-governance year last year the state got a huge number of computers as donations in villages from local residents.

PETRO CAPITAL 0F INDIA:

State PSU Gujarat State Petrochemicals has made Gujarat the petro-capital of lndia by laying a 2,200 km gas grid in the state of which 1,400 kms is already complete. Huge natural gas and crude oil reserves were found in Krishna-Godavari basin. The gas grid is expected to give a major fillip to industrial production because gas is much cheaper to naptha which most industrial units had been using so far.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR:

The state has given soil health cards to more than half of the 38 lakh farmers in the state to enable them to comprehend the quality of the soil on their farms and decide on precise crop pattern and the right fertilisers. 700 scientists from the four agricultural universities of the state have been involved in educating the farmers on crop patterns and fertilisers. This move won praise from eminent agro scientist, M.S. Swaminathan.

UNIQUE NIATIONAL SECURITY MODEL:

The state has set up a unique security model based on tight vigilance and effective action due to which not a single terror attack has taken place in Gujarat in the last five years while cities like Delhi and Mumbai get hit by terrorists.

by Uday Mahurkar

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