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TopicGujarat Model

Topic: Gujarat Model

I’ve gained weight because of Gujarati food, says Rahul Gandhi at Kutch rally

Manasi Phadke -
Rahul Gandhi lambasts BJP’s ‘Gujarat model’ of development in his last leg of campaigning for state assembly polls, saying it did not benefit locals.

Talk Point: There is a lot of anxiety over the Naliya taluka rape case in Gujarat

Sushmita Dev -
The Gujarat model is a fairy tale that Modi sold to the nation in the 2014 general elections. 

Talk Point: Gujarat model is led by big corporates, benefits the wealthy at the cost of the poor

Atul Sood -
The Gujarat model is nothing but a harsher version of the development path that ruling classes of India chose for itself in the early 1990s.

Talk Point: The Gujarat model is a myth, particularly on the human development aspect

Gaurang Jani -
A sociological analysis of parameters like literacy and sex ratio reveals that Gujarat model is a myth.

Talk Point: You cannot miss the growth in Gujarat, unless blinded by voting preferences

Shekhar Gupta -
You may attack Modi in Gujarat on a dozen things but not on economic, industrial, and infrastructural development and growth.

Talk Point: Rural Gujarat in 2002 was backward, bleak, and lacking in reliable electricity and water

Tavleen Singh -
The Gujarat model cannot be a model for the whole of India, but it can work at the state government level.

Talk Point: Gujarat’s growth rate of income stayed the same before and after Modi

Maitreesh Ghatak -
Gujarat is a classic case of a corporate-led development model which involves increasing prosperity for the rich, but very little benefit of growth trickles down to the poor.

Talk Point: ‘Gujarat model’ an average product, ‘Gujarat marketing model’ in another orbit

Deepender Hooda -
If we cut through the marketing hype, Gujarat is not the trailblazer state it is made out to be.

Talk Point: To his credit, Modi accelerated the growth of the 1990s

Y. K. Alagh -
Other economists may call it the ‘Gujarat model’, but keeping industrial growth high and improving agriculture are keeping the state’s development high.
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