குஜராத் வளர்ச்சி 12.17 - தமிழகம் 7.3 !

நடுவண் அரசு திட்ட கமிஷன் வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கையின் படி
Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) வளர்ச்சி
பாஜ்க ஆளும் மத்திய பிரதேசம் 23.05 சதவீதம்
குஜராத் 12.17 சதவீதம்
சட்டிஸ்கார்க் 12.30 சதவீதம்

ஆனால், காங்கிரஸ் ஆளும் டெல்லியில் இது 9.0 சதவீதமே

மேற்கு வங்காளம் 8.13
ஆந்திர பிரதேசம் 8.02
ஹரியானா 8.05
பஞ்சாப் 4.93
கேரளா 8.01

தமிழகத்தில் 7.3
கர்னாடகா 7.9

கேவலமான தொழில்வளர்ச்சி, வருமான வளர்ச்சி அடைந்திருக்கும் தமிழகத்தின் நிலைக்கு யார் பொறுப்பு எடுத்துக்கொள்வார்கள்?



The figures for West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and Kerala are estimated at 8.13, 8.02, 8.05, 4.93, and 8.01 per cent respectively.


Gujarat way ahead of other States

Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi

Ministry of Planning records 12.17% GSDP growth rate in 2006-07

Facts can be stranger than fiction. Several reports by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Government belie his bland statement at a Gujarat election rally that the State had seen no development under Chief Minister Narendra Modi.




From the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) to employment generation and even the implementation of UPA's own flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) scheme, Gujarat is way ahead of other States.



Ministry of Planning, which Dr Singh heads himself, puts GSDP growth rate in Gujarat at 12.17 per cent at the constant prices for 2006-07. It is next only to the BJP-ruled MP (23.05 per cent) and Chhattisgarh (12.30 per cent). In contrast, the GSDP growth rate in Congress-ruled Delhi is 9.18 per cent. The figures for West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and Kerala are estimated at 8.13, 8.02, 8.05, 4.93, and 8.01 per cent respectively.



The strife-torn Asom is registering the GDP growth rate at 5.94 per cent, while Himachal Pradesh tops the list among smaller states by recording 9.27 per cent growth rate. Among major southern states, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka registered growth rate of 7.38 and 7.90 per cent respectively for 2006-07, while Maharashtra's GSDP rate has been pegged at 9.20 per cent.



Gujarat is not lagging in the implementing the centre's flagship NREG scheme either. According to an estimate of Ministry of Rural Development, as many as 2,26,269 households asked for jobs and got them in the State during 2006-07.



Modi's state is ahead of most other states in the matter of employment generation also. Union Minister for Labour Oscar Fernandes told Rajya Sabha on November 23 this year that 99000 persons were given employment in Gujarat through employment exchanges in 2006- - the highest in the country.



In comparison, West Bengal, Rajasthan, UP, Kerala, AP and Tamil Nadu gave jobs to only 13000, 4100, 1700, 10000, 900, and 9700 persons respectively during the same year. The Centre's Working Group on 'Poverty Elimination' during 11th Plan too lauded the efforts of Gujarat Government along with that of AP and Kerala, and even recommended these initiatives should be replicated at the national level.



While the Working Group appreciated Gujarat Government's efforts to target the poorest among poor on priority basis to eliminate poverty, AP Government was eulogised for addressing poverty through self-help groups (SHGs), and Kerala's Kudumbashree model was found to be equally effective.



The individual household model of Gujarat takes into account the multi-dimensional nature of poverty. It has used 13 score-based socio-economic parameters for assessing the poverty level of each household. Then, it groups them into poor and very poor, and prioritises the poverty alleviation programmes by putting the poorest at the top.



"Equipped with a systematic computerised ordinal list of the poor identified on the basis of a vector of multi-dimensional indicators of basic deprivations, the Gujarat approach of poverty alleviation programme is oriented towards assistance to individual households," the Working Group has stated in the report.