Gujarat urban summit:Moments after substage collapsed(multi)
Ahmedabad,DeshGujarat
Gujarat’s six city’s municipal commissioners were there, at least 6 investors and some government officers were there, on the stage, and stage suddenly broke down and felled to the ground in Gujarat Urban investors summit 2006’s MOU signing function in the presence of chief minister Narendra Modi.
In Tagore hall sub stage was created for MOU signing adjoining the main stage. On main stage Gujarat’s chief secretary, urban development minister and chief minister were sitting. On sub stage municipal commissioners and investors were called to take their sit across the tables to sign MOU. When MOU signing was on suddenly sub stage collapsed to the ground. Fortunately, stage had not much height and therefore nobody was hurt or injured. While stage was collapsed, urban development minister Shri I.K. Jadeja stood up from his sit and rushed to rescue investors and commissioners, chief minister and chief secretary had to stand up from their sits to guide(You can see immediate scene after sub stage collapsing in this video.)
However it was immediately announced that nobody was hurt and it was so much investment coming to Gujarat that made even stage getting collapsed. Chairs and tables were arranged quickly to the ground level and rest of the function went normal soon. Modernization but not westernization:Narendra Modi’s speech in same function on DeshGujarat(mp3)
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Who were on the stage?
Municipal commissioner of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bhavanagar and Rajkot, Representatives of Gallops integrated infrastructure, United phosphorus, Himalaya building construction, ILFS, Bakeri engineers( I saw mr. senior Bakeri was on the stage), Madhav corporation private limited, Reliance retail, Remke group, Chhatraalaa croup, Narayan housing finance company limited, Gandhi reality private limited, P_artners of Meet builders, Raj enterprises, Allied builders, Parshvnath reality, Parshvanath HFC limited, Subhash project pvt ltd(Delhi), UTI infrastructure fund, Trinet international(U.S.), Shyam builders, Jolly infrastructure company
For how long the mess continued?
For around one minute
What were the reactions?
Somebody said ‘Shame, government pays event Management Company large bucks, how can this happen?’ Some said ‘Gujarat ne najar naa laagi jay etlaa maate saaeu thayu ke aavu thayu’, some said ‘So what if stage is down? Gujarat is up’, and some said ‘urban infrastructure !!’.
At press offices
At every press office, editors were asking photographers for that moment’s photo, but none had it.
Listen to the audio of collapse
Related reading:
ILFS plans Rs 50,000cr investment in Gujarat: Business Standard
Realtors pledge to invest Rs 2 lakh cr in Gujarat
Urban summit sees MoUs of Rs 2.05 lakh cr
