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TopicGujarat Model

Topic: Gujarat Model

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.