Present Gujarat Government completes one successful year,enters second

Ahmedabad, 25 December 2013

The present state Government, under the leadership of Mr. Narendra Modi, has completed one glorious year of rule and is entering the second year on December 26, 2013.

The state, under the able leadership of Mr. Modi, continued its developmental journey and achieved many milestones in the directions of good governance.

The present state government, with the motto of ‘collective efforts, inclusive growth’ and ‘Gujarat’s development for the development of India’, left no stone unturned for the development of Gujarat and gave politically stable governance. Given below are the highlights of the top achievements of Gujarat Government during last one year.

Unceasing Growth, Achievements par excellence

Rural Development through Good Governance:

• Well-planned implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Spent Rs. 26,639 lakhs: Created an employment 111 lakh man hours: Constructed 16,871 houses under Indira Aawas Yojna at the cost of Rs. 17,837 lakh.

• Works of ground water conservation initiated at the cost of Rs. 30,937 lakh under integrated watershed management programme.

• Gujarat’s multi-purpose ‘Jyotirgram’ scheme has supplied uninterrupted 24-hrs, 3-phased, electricity to 18000 villages and 9,700 hamlets; enabling them to avail services like education, employment, health and others at the local level…making the villages economically self-reliance… shunning migration towards urban areas.

• Under the E-governance scheme, the villages of Gujarat have been given broadband connectivity to make them a ‘Global-village’… the important documents have been made available to the villagers at their door-steps…e-gram pachayat is availing them important services like getting birth & death certificates, income certificate, character certificate, cast certificate, documents like 7/12, 8-A etc.

Transparency in Administration:

• To address people’s grievances through the use of e-governance, the Chief Minister has launched a Swagat Online Programme …Gujarat has become the first state in the country to address people’s grievances and solve them on spot through a video-conferencing with Chief Minister, thus making the administration a transparent and answerable.

• Due to E-governance, 124 types of various public services have been made available at one spot ‘Janseva Kendra’ at each taluka head-quarters…freeing the millions of citizens from being shuttled between Taluka and District head-quarters for getting important documents, thus refraining them from hardships and saving their precious time and money

Women Empowerment through Good Governance:

• “Mission Mangalam Yojna” has empowered over 26 lakh women, members of over 2.5 lakh Sakhi Mandals, to successfully run the businesses like animal-breeding, farming, cottage industry etc. amounting to Rs 1700-Cr.

• E-mamta: In the country, the Gujarat has taken the frontal position in preparing ‘digitalized health record’ of the pregnant mothers: the availability of digitalized health record of nearly 20-lakh pregnant mothers has strengthen the medical facilities… reducing the mother and child mortality ratio

Good Governance through Health Services:

• With the help of Chiranjeevi Yojana, 8-lakh women safeguarded in childbirth procedures and the children could get health services in the institutionalized hospitals: deliveries in hospitals increased to 95% from just 47%

• Bal Shakha Yojana: More than 2.75 lakh newly born infants are given medical treatments by pediatricians: Khilkhilat Yojana for helping the mother and child reach home safely after the delivery

• Mukhya Mantri Amrutum ‘Maa’ Yojana: The BPL and middleclass families of the state given free super specialist treatments of drugs-operation worth Rs. 2-Lakh per family for curing fatal diseases of cancer, kidney, heart etc.

• Services of 180 experts made available to public health centers and district level government hospital under CM Setu scheme.

Upliftment of the poor through Good Governance:

• A pledge to eradicate poverty: In all the talukas of Gujarat, as many as 1000 Garib Kalyan Mela being transparently organized at each center of taluka, wherein 85 lakh poor people have availed hand-to-hand benefits worth Rs.13,000 crore at their doorsteps

Development of the deprived with the support of Good Governance:

• In the first phase of Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana, huge benefits of worth Rs. 17,838 crore have been distributed for the all-round development of 90-lakh tribals of the Gujarat state: In the second phase of this successful yojana, Rs. 40,000 crore have been planned for the next five years:

• Sagarkhedu Sarvangi Vikas Yojana: Rs. 11,600 crore is spent for almost 60-lakh fisherman families residing across 38- taluka of 13-districs.

Agriculture Development:

• Owing to the agro-based schemes like Krishi Mahotsav and Soil Health Card, the agriculture growth rate has increased to 7.4% in 2011-12 from -2.9% in the decade of 1991-2000.

• Gujarat tops the nation in the implementation of Farmers Accident Insurance: An amount of Rs. 133 crore has been paid to the heirs of about 15,000 farmers from the year 1995-96 till now.

Sports:

• Intensive planning to boost sports: Setting up of Sports University in the state: Won 129 medals in school level sports competition during year 2012-13.

• More than 31.44 lakh players took part in Khel Mahakumbh which covered all 18,000 villages of Gujarat: In a unique experiment, more than 1.5 lakh girls were given self defense training under ‘PADKAR’ programme.

Social Justice and Empowerment:

• An assistance of Rs. 10 crore provided to over 5,000 families of backward classe under Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Housing Scheme. Assistance of Rs. 4 crore to 1,183 beneficiaries of Dr. Ambedkar Housing Scheme, and housing assistance of more than Rs. 2 crore to 1,500 cleaning workers by Gujarat Safai Kamdar Vikas Nigam.

Water Supply:

• Potable water facility to 11,529 villages and 131 towns under state wide water supply grid. As many as 10,696 schemes completed under sector reform in Swa Jaldhara Programme.

• Narmada water provided to various part of the state through Narmada canal setup.

Energy and Petrochemical:

• Domestic electricity connections given to urban slums and tribal areas, and also given 49,031 agriculture electricity connections during last one year.

• Implemented solar and wind power policy for exploiting renewable energy: Gandhinagar will be the solar capital of India.

Employment Generation:

• Unemployment rate in Gujarat lowest in the country: Gujarat first since 2002 in providing employment through employment exchanges.

• Employment given to 2,53,000 candidates through Swami Vivekanand Employment Fair: State received Prime Minister’s award for the excellent work of Gujarat’s Kaushalya Vardhan Kendra (KVK).

Home Department:

• E-GUJCOP Project launched to prepare a detailed database of criminals in order to control criminal activities.

• Setting up of 32 Suraksha Setu Societies with a view to build a creative bridge between police and people: Security provided to women, senior citizen and children.

Panchayat Department:

• Constructed more than 1.33 lakh houses at the cost of over Rs. 89,600 lakh during the year 2013-14: 422 Villages became Samras under Samras Gram Panchayat Yojna. Grants worth Rs. 4,437 lakh given.

• Launched RURBAN project to bridge the gap between villages and cities: Infrastructural facilities are being developed in 76 villages at the cost of Rs. 11,231 lakh.

Education:

• Fresh approval for class 8 given to more than 898 schools in the current year: Approval given to 48 new English medium schools: Online child tracking of 54 lakh children of class 2 to 8 under Gunotsav Programme. More than 13,000 Vidya Sahayak appointed during the year.

• Started 87 new government secondary schools in just one year: Computer education facility given to 5,970 secondary and higher secondary schools: Computer training given to 30,000 teachers.

• 49 universities functioning in the state in order to expand the scope of higher education: Concrete steps taken for modernization class rooms and libraries in the government colleges. Planning of Rs. 1,710 lakh for construction of new buildings of six government colleges.

Food and Civil Supply:

• Gujarat Civil Supply Corporation receiving e-governance award since past two consecutive years from Computer Society of India for strengthening civil supply system using technology.

• 94 lakh ration cards distributed under bar-coded ration card scheme.

Micro Irrigation:

• Intensive planning for encouraging micro irrigation: State government handed over assistance worth Rs. 562 crore to 1,19,000 beneficiaries farmer who used micro irrigation in 1.88 lakh hectare of area.

• Owing to the set up of Gujarat Green Revolution Company, nearly 5 lakh farmers could take benefit of micro irrigation in 8 lakh hectare of area.

Tourism:

• Development works worth Rs. 358 crore initiated by the state Tourism Department for the development of religious places: Set up 24 hour toll free call centre for tourists.

• Gujarat’s tourism growth rate speediest in the country: Tourist inflow was 170 lakh in 2009-10, which increased to 254 lakh in 2012-13: Provision of Rs. 395 crore for providing infrastructure facilities to tourists.

Tribal Welfare:

• Provision of Rs. 7,100 crore in the current year under tribal area sub-scheme: Amount of loan for higher studies in abroad increased from Rs. 5 lakh o Rs. 10 lakh. 118 youths given assistance for foreign studies so far.

Science and Technology:

• Entire genome sequence of micro condyle DNA of Asiatic lion prepared for the first time in the world: State received 116 awards in last 12 years for the excellent work in science and technology field.

• Started Institute of Wildlife Genomic and DNA banking… Approval for the setting up of Gujarat Bio-Diversity Gene Bank, bid informatics institute, marine bio resource centre and Gujarat Genomics Institute as independent bodies.

Gujarat winning awards owing to good governance:

• Gujarat Government has received about 285 national and international award for its magnificent work. These include 24 international awards, 7 prime minister’s award, 82 awards from various departments of government of India, 29 awards by national and international media, and 143 awards from other organizations.