Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani completes one month in office

Gandhinagar: Following is the Gujarat government note on completion of one month of Shri Vijay Rupani in Chief Minister’s office

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani who completed one month in office today has set transparent, sensitive, decisive and progressive government as the four pillars of good governance for balanced growth of agriculture, industries and service sectors in the state.

He commemorated the milestone by launching the high-speed digital connectivity project to initially link the last man in the last mile in 6,000 villages, and gradually all the 18,000 villages of the state.

Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mantra of ‘Sauno Saath, Sauna Vikas’ for ‘Inclusive Growth through Collective Efforts’, Mr. Rupani decided to accord top priority to simplification of rules and to provide infrastructure facilities for healthcare, education and job opportunities for the common man.

Mr. Rupani’s next in priority is to make the success of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit-2017 with stress on Technology by arranging an array of pre-summit seminars and road shows lined-up till January 2017.

While 20 MoUs have already been singed seminar on cinematic tourism for setting up theme parks, amusement parks, ropeway, and another seminar-cum-expo on agro and food processing, other important milestone he covered during the last month includes:

-Filling up 10 reservoirs in the Saurashtra region with the surplus flood water from the Narmada through a pipeline project on August 30, to fill up total 115 dams and reservoirs in future;
-Exempting residential units up to 125 sq m from prior building permission;
-Exempting areas under Town Planning (TP) Schemes from seeking permission from Non-Agriculture (NA) purpose, all plots to be sanctioned by the town planner;
-Implementing uniform application forms and licence forms for architects, engineers applicable to all the municipal corporations and nagarpalikas;
-Implementing uniform rainwater harvesting, recycling and solid waste management provisions in all local self-government organizations;
-Deciding to hold GPSC examinations for Class-1 and Class-2 every second year, at the same time upgrading the GSPC pattern like UPSC, preparing the candidates to go higher level with ease’
-Increasing the size of waiting list for direct recruitment to Class-3 posts in state government from 10% to 20%, filling up the posts from the waiting list for one year;
-Implementing the benefits of the Seventh Pay Commission for Central Government employees to State Government karma yogis (employees) from August 1, 2016;
-Opening up the agriculture sector as a prosperous business to raise the agriculture growth rate to 20%, through next generation agriculture;
-Setting up an SIT to investigate the atrocity Dalits in Thangarh, announcing ex gratia payment of Rs.2-lakh to each victim;
-Increasing the electricity supply to rain-deficient Suarashtra region for irrigationn from eight to hour hours, to save the standing crops;
-Launching a month long campaign to eliminate child labour in state;
-Exempting toll tax on highways from August 15;
-Signing an MoU with Central Government for regional air connectivity with 11 small airports – namely Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Bhuj, Keshod, Kandla, Deesa, Amreli, Mehsana, Mandvi, Jamnagar and Surat;
-Gujarat becoming the first state in the country by distributing 2-crore LED bulbs at concessional, benefitting 42-lakh families, to reach the target of 12-crore bulbs;
-Ensuring six lakh farmers already got Rs.1,795-crore insurance due to damage to crops during kharif season in 2015;
-Deciding to solve revenue land measurement issue in a time-bound, simple, transparent campaign; and
-Starting separate Twitter and Faebook Pages at the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) to reach out to the people, informing them about the people’s welfare initiatives and schemes.

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