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Gujarat to build nano, GIFT city

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WOOING INVESTORS: Assocham President Venugopal Dhoot (left) welcoming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi (centre) at the ‘Invest Gujarat’ programme in New Delhi on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said here on Saturday that his government is building a nano-city and the Gujarat International Financial Tax city (GIFT) at Gandhinagar while going ahead with its plans to connect all its villages with broadband facilities in the next two months.

Inaugurating the Assocham organized Gujarat Summit here Mr. Modi said that the hundred-storied nano city would have ultra modern facilities from human resources development to process houses for which the process for construction could shortly commence.

Likewise, the proposed GIFT would be built by one company that created Shanghai in China for which necessary formalities were being completed, he said.

Mr. Modi refused to give further details for the proposed nano city and GIFT. However, he said since Gujarat had become number one IT power in entire Asia and number two in the world, it was committed to provide broadband facilities to all its villages in the next 65 days.

He said the State had, in the last fiscal, achieved an agricultural growth rate of 11 per cent against an all India average agri-GDP (gross domestic product) of around three per cent.

According to Mr. Modi, the agricultural income of Gujarat during 2001-02 was Rs. 9,000 crore only and its agriculture flourished in the last five years and today the situation was such that the State’s farmers were making their transactions in the field itself.

“The State has concentrated more towards creation of infrastructure, be it water grid, pipeline network, IT network, port and rail and air network, Gujarat is the best,” claimed the Chief Minister.

He said within a span of 700 days, Gujarat laid a water pipeline measuring 1,400 km to supply drinking water to 800 villages. Similarly, the State would be creating petroleum pipeline network to ensure that entire Gujarat was connected with Gas pipeline network.

He called upon the industry to participate in Gujarat Invest Summit, scheduled for January 12 and 13, 2009, and park its investment as in the next few years the entire Gujarat and its coastal areas would not have an inch of land to absorb investment.

In his welcome address, Assocham President Venugopal N. Dhoot praised the initiatives that the Gujarat administration had been taking to develop it socially and economically.

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