Surat: The 'Master Plan for developing the Surat Economic Region as a Growth Hub by 2047' was launched today, suggesting positioning the SER as a destination for business-led leisure tourism. One of the major suggestions in the plan is to set up a Disneyland Theme Park in Surat, which, if established, will be the first Disneyland in South Asia. The plan proposes that Surat be developed as a business-led tourism hub, offering cruise tourism with 3-4 day cruises and docking points that provide...Read More

Surat: The 'Economic Master Plan for developing the Surat city region as a Growth Hub by 2047' was launched today at an event held in the city. During the event, the NITI Aayog CEO stated that the GDP per capita income of individuals in the Surat Economic Region (SER) is double the national average. While elaborating on the master plan, NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said that NITI Aayog initially selected four cities to develop economic plans for growth hubs: Mumbai, Surat, Visakhapatnam, a...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Government today announced that it has established 'GRIT' (Gujarat State Institution for Transformation), in line with the NITI Aayog model, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. With the motto of "Developed Gujarat for Developed India @ 2047," the State Government has prepared a dynamic vision document, the "Roadmap of Developed Gujarat @ 2047." This roadmap will guide the formulation of strategic plans with both short-term and long-term goals in mind...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government will form a think tank called the Gujarat State Institution or Transformation (GRIT) in the pattern of NITI Aayog at State level. This announcement was made today after the 9th general council meeting of NITI Aayog in national capital Delhi where Gujarat Chief Minister was also a participant. At present Maharashtra has similar body called MITRA, Karnataka has SITK, Uttar Pradesh has STC, Assam has SITA and Uttarakhand has SETU. Similarly Gujarat will have GRIT...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday reached national capital New Delhi to participate in NITI Aayog's 9th governing council meeting which is scheduled to be held on Saturday. This is the first meeting of NITI Aayog being held after the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. In NITI Aayog meeting, the Chief Minister will be accompanied by the Chief Secretary and Secretary of General Administrative Department among other officials.  All Chief Ministers are invited to...Read More

Surat: To realise the vision of making India a developed India by the year 2047, the policy aims to create such mega economic growth hubs by developing the most rapidly growing important cities and adjoining areas in India as "Growth Hubs" to give further impetus to existing economic activities and develop new industries and economic sectors. Niti Aayog, the Government of India team, visited Surat today. It is worth mentioning here that the Government of India has planned to develop four urban r...Read More

Gandhinagar: A total of 47,84,122 people have come out of poverty during 2015-16 to 2019-21 in Gujarat, which is about 5.13 % of the population, as indicated in a report from Niti Aayog. The Niti Aayog report titled 'National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress of Review 2023' reveals that approximately 13.5 crore individuals have come out of poverty across the nation between 2015-16 and 2019-21. In the state of Gujarat, the percentage of poor people in the population has decreased from ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat has been ranked first in the first ever export preparedness index 2020 released by NITI AYOG today. It is the first of its kind index on the lines of ease of doing business ranking, which has ranked all the states and Union Territories on various parameters of export preparedness and competitiveness. Parameters on which ranking has been done include export promotion policy, institutional framework, business ecosystem, business environment, trade support, R&D support, export...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani will be in Delhi on Thursday, July 18 to attend the first meeting of Niti Aayog's High Powered Committee of Chief Ministers for Transformation of Indian Agriculture. State officials K.Kailashnathan and Sanjay Prasad will join the CM in this visit. The nine-member committee, including chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat, will submit its report within two months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi while...Read More