CM in Delhi to receive India Today awards to Gujarat state

New Delhi

Gujarat state today bagged the India Today Group’s three prestigious awards for ‘Overall Performance’, ‘Best State for Investment’ and ‘Cleanliness Drive’ and at the ‘State of the States Enclave-2015’ in New Delhi today.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh presented the awards to the Chief Minister at the Conclave in presence of the chief ministers of different states and other dignitaries.

The annual conclave is being held by the India Today Group since 2003 to present the awards to the states, selected by an experts’ panel, for their performance and achievement during the previous year under different categories.

This year the awards were given for the states’ performance under the different categories like agriculture, health, education, governance, infrastructure, quality of life, business environment and exclusive development.

Gujarat is receiving the two awards for ‘Best State for Investment’ as well as ‘Overall Performance’, there being two separate sets of awards for major states and smaller states.

It may be noted here that Gujarat received the ‘Best State for Investment’ award for intentions worth Rs.51,108-crore received between January-August in 2015, which amounts to 21.6 per cent of total such intentions received in the entire country.

If the industrial investments were calculated from 2010 to 2015, Gujarat alone implemented proposals worth Rs.1,16,821-crore, which amount to 36.5 per cent of total proposals of Rs.3,19,920-crore received for the entire country.

Gujarat received the award for ‘Cleanliness Drive’ for the state’s cleanliness drive, with Chief Minister Anandiben Patel evoking people participation as a mass campaign to provide 12-lakh individual toilets in every home. In urban areas, Gujarat alone built 3,09,575 toilets, that is 70 per cent of total 4,64,651 toilets built in the country during this period.

The Chief Minister thanked the state government’s Karma Yogis and 6.50-crore Gujaratis for their contributions and cooperation in making a success of the mantra of Gatisheel Gujarat, which led to the state receiving as many as three India Today Group’s awards.

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