Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who succeeded the State's first woman CM Anandiben Patel, completed one month in office on Wednesday. On the occasion of completing one month in office, CM Rupani launched a project to provide 6,000 villages of Gujarat with high-speed internet connectivity.
According to him, the initiative promises to take the benefits of technology to the grassroots level and in turn ensure better lives for people living in villages. He termed the initiative as commitment towards PM Narendra Modi's vision of Digital India.
Rupani took charge as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat on August 7 this year amid two burning issues of pro-quota Patidar agitation and flogging of Dalit youth near Una. In one month, his Government was able to pacify both the issues and at the same time he gave emphasis on simplifying Government procedures and on growth of agriculture, industry and service sector by certain initiatives.
The most important achievement during his tenure is the launching of the first phase of SAUNI Yojana by the Prime Minister. This project envisages lying of 1,126 km-long network of pipelines for pumping water to 115 dams of semi-arid Saurashtra. CM Rupani has committed to take forward the work of SAUNI Yojana on priority basis.
land under approved town planning schemes across the state will not need Non-Agriculture (NA) certification now onwards. Gujarat Government has also decided to exempt the individual plot owners, who want to build their houses upto less than 125 square metres, from seeking prior approval for construction during his tenure.
Besides as many as 20 MoUs were signed in 'Cinematic Tourism - The Way Forward' seminar as part of pre-event series of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017. The MoUs signed include development of theme park, amusement park, hotel, ropeway project, tourism in Polo, post production studio, miniature project Adalaj, water park project, floating restaurant, etc. Another seminar on Agro and Food Processing also organised as part of Vibrant Gujarat pre-event series.
Following below average rainfall in Saurashtra, Ruapni government has decided to provide electricity for irrigation-water for up to 10 hours instead of 8 hours to the farmers. Moreover an important the present state government took a step to abolish child labour after a month-long state-wide campaign launched to spread awareness among the people about the evils of child labour.
US Consul General meets Gujarat CM
Ahead of the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017, Thomas Vajda, Consul General of USA to India met Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Wednesday. Vajda's visit came at a time when Gujarat government has sent a delegation to the United States of America to conduct road shows across Chicago, Houston, Washington DC and New York. The delegation is led by Bharat lal, Resident Commissioner, Government of Gujarat and is scheduled to interact with top businessmen, industry associations and government officials during the road show. The delegation is currently in Canada and will fly to the United States of America on Thursday. The Consul General did a walking-tour of old Ahmedabad with his consul staff and also met the PDPU leadership at the PDPU campus in the first half of the day.