Madhya Pradesh, the heartland of the country, has established new dimensions of development in the last decade and a half and has established itself as a developed state. According to the Good Governance and Development Report-2022 of Madhya Pradesh, due to the changes in the state, Madhya Pradesh has become an example among developed states rising from the Bimaru status. The model of development with people’s participation in the state has played an important role in this great achievement. Under the able leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the double engine government at the center and the state has made Madhya Pradesh exemplary for other states. In this period, along with road, electricity, water, agriculture, tourism, water-conservation, irrigation, investment, self-employment and infrastructure development, a new saga of well-thought-out and all-round development was written on all those aspects, which are related to public welfare and are necessary for development.

Due to better financial management and all-round development, today the state’s growth rate is 19.7 percent, which is the highest in the country. Madhya Pradesh is contributing 4.6 percent in the country’s economy. The GDP has increased by 200 percent in the last decade. The economic growth rate of Madhya Pradesh is continuously increasing. The rate of 4.43 percent in the year 2001-02 has increased to 16.43 percent today. The state’s gross domestic product has increased from Rs. 71 thousand 594 crore to Rs. 13 lakh 22 thousand 821. In the year 2001-02, the per capita income was Rs 11 thousand 718, which has increased to Rs one lakh 40 thousand 583 in the year 2022-23. The GSDP growth rate of the state has been higher than the national GDP growth rate in the last decade.

Keeping in view the importance of infrastructure in the development process, continuous infrastructure development is taking place in Madhya Pradesh. The infrastructure budget, which was Rs 3873 crore in the year 2002-03, has increased to Rs 56 thousand 256 crore in the year 2023-24. There was a time when there was excess of power cuts. Today the state is self-sufficient in the power sector and there is 24-hour power availability. In the year 2003, the energy capacity was 5173 MW, which has increased to 28 thousand MW.

Madhya Pradesh is also leading in the field of renewable energy. The work of 600 MW floating solar power plant has started in Omkareshwar with an investment of about Rs 3500 crores. There is a target of setting up 50,000 solar pumps in farmers' fields. Very soon the world heritage site Sanchi will develop into a solar city and make its own identity in the country.

Good roads are the axis of development. There was a time when it was not known whether there are potholes in the road or there is a road in potholes. Now a network of good quality roads has been laid from village to village, city to city. There were 44 thousand kilometers of roads in urban and rural areas in the year 2001-02, now 4 lakh 10 thousand kilometers of roads have been built. In the National Highway Project, 35 works of about 1500 km length costing Rs 40 thousand crores have been approved. Malwa, Bundelkhand and Madhya Vikas Path are being constructed along with Atal, Narmada and Vindhya Pragati Path.…………………