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Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today at IIMA conclave said that Gujarat is heading towards being a global capital for solar energy. IIMA conclave was organized today jointly by IIMA alumni association and government of Gujarat, as a part of celebration of IIMA's golden jubilee and promotion of forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit. Chief Minister participated a question-answer session besides delivering keynote address on the occasion. Shri Modi said that Gujarat government, by exploiting all possible natural means of energy is trying show a way-out in the time of energy crises. He said that world's largest solar energy park is being setup on the land of Gujarat and many countries are now eager to partner the state in the field of solar energy. Gujarat is also open for a global participation in the field of solar energy equipment manufacturing and is already done with the solar energy policy, he said. Chief Minister called upon young intellects to chip in their skills for the development of the state in the newer directions. He said that Gujarat has formed an Innovation Commission. A world-class incubation centre is also going to be established in the state and government will assist the young minds having innovating ideas, with a venture fund. Shri Modi appreciated IIMA alumni's eagerness for contributing in Gujarat's development and said that IIM has given a huge contribution in the progress of the state. Chief Minister said that the state government is putting emphasize on P2G2 (Proactive Pro-people Good Governance) and development friendly atmosphere in the state. Government wants to provide a 'pragati ni sidi' (ladder of progress) to industries instead 'subsidy', he said. IIM alumni Shri S.B.Dangayach and Pro. Atanu Ghosh described Shri Modi as an extraordinary leader and manager and said that Gujarat has scored a high position in the world due to his farsighted leadership. | ||
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CM Narendra Modi talks with IIMA alumnis,
Thangam Thennarasu calls on Narendra Modi
Thangam Thennarasu calls on Narendra Modi
Sept 7, 2010: A delegation from Tamil Nadu led by School Education and Archaeology Minister Thangam Thennarasu called on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhi Nagar on Monday to discuss the statues of Thanjavur’s ancient king and queen that are in a Gujarat museum.
A press note said the delegation including Tamil Nadu Tourism Secretary V Irai Ambu expressed a wish to take back with them the statues, which is presently with the Gautam Sarabhai Archeological Museum of Gujarat, in view of the millennium celebrations of Lord Brahadeeswara Temple.
The team conveyed the greetings extended by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to Narendra Modi. Thennarasu also discussed issues related to the educational institutes of Saurashtrian community in Tamil Nadu, the release added.
Jyotipunj – Narendra Modi
Jyotipunj – Narendra Modi
”Only those who keep walking get sweet returns...look at the sun's perseverance - dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving”, says Narendra Modi, CM of Gujarat. A man of courage and values, Modi is a strong supporter of Hindutava and follower of RSS.
Continuing his penmanship, Narendra Modi has authored a new book offering glimpses of his journey from an ordinary worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to a full-time functionary as “pracharak”. In JyotiPunj, Narendra Modi has attempted to communicate his persona, thinking and principles - and attribute them to the years he spent in the Sangh. “Jyotipunj” debunks many myths about the Sangh. The book reflects extraordinary works of ordinary people.
However Narendra Modi’s new book is more focused on several known and unknown RSS leaders, who have shaped the Gujarat Chief Minister’s thinking. Modi wants to use the book to convey his commitment as strong Sangh man to the cadres. On the day of release of the book, Modi expressed his gratitude towards the RSS saying that he has learnt a lot from the leaders. Modi said during emergency when all the well known writers of the RSS were locked in jails, he was asked to publish a booklet, Abhay. It was during that time that he learnt the art of writing and he has compiled all his feelings about the leaders in the book. He said that his first book was released more than 30 years ago by Babubhai Jashbhai Patel, the then CM of Gujarat.
"Jyotipunj" highlights the lives of 16 leaders of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In the book, Modi has written about the things he has learnt from these 16 leaders during his interactions with them. They include RSS founder K B Hedgewar and his successor M S Golwalkar, Nathalal Jhagda, K K Shastri, Laxmanrao Inamdar, Keshvrao Deshmukh, Madhukarrao Bhagwat, Shri Vasant Chiplunkar, Dr Vanikar, Anantrao Kade, Vasudevrao Talwalkar, Babubhai Oza and Dr P V Doshi.
Passionate and progressive, a poet at heart and an author of a few books and tech-savvy, Mr. Narendra Modi is one of the most responsive political leaders in India. Modi’s model of good governance is being applauded within the country and beyond. The way he has won the hearts of people of Gujarat and his popularity at the national level show that ‘Good governance is also good politics’.
This book has also been translated in Marathi by Ravindra Dani is a publication of Ameya Prakashan.
Convenient Action: Gujarat`s Response To Challenges Of Climate Change
There has been broad agreement over the fundamentals of Climate Change in mainstream scientific circles for some time now. Climate Change is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere. And its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous, if left unchecked. "Convenient Action- Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change", written by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi, is an illustrative book containing successful examples of the policy and programmatic initiatives for dealing with Climate Change which he has undertaken during the last few years in the State of Gujarat, India. The book explicitly documents the development philosophy that forms the core of his public policy and how it has contributed to both adaptation and mitigation of Climate Change. In a field more marked by debates and discourses, the book stands distinct in its emphasis on action and how a conscious Climate Change Policy can bring in visible results. The book thus caters to a wide cross section of readers which includes policy makers, scientists, research scholars, students, writers and the general public at large. "I would call this unique compendium of action a Green Autobiography of Narendra Modi who has shown a definite path and determined strategy to meet the Challenges of Climate Change."--- Steve Howard, CEO, The Climate Group ISBN - 9780230331921
Narendra Modi not to campaign in Bihar
Narendra Modi not to campaign in Bihar
News 24 bureau
Patna: Bihar Chief minister Narandra Modi would not campaign in Bihar.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday made it clear that Narendra Modi is not going to campaign in Bihar.
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj while addressing a press conference here agreed with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that the BJP decided to keep Modi out of Bihar election campaign.
The BJP leader also lambasted Congress for trying to take the credit the development in Bihar. "The sad part is that the Congress leadership takes the credit for developments in the states. They say they have sent the money for development," said Sushma.
She claimed that the Bihar government had spent more money on the development of the state than that sent by the Centre. If Centre sent Re 1 for development, we have spent Rs 1.25 on the people of Bihar. It is wrong for the Congress leadership to say that they are sending the money for development.
Like it or not, Modi's Gujarat's man
BANGALORE - A month of acrimonious campaigning is over and voters have cast their ballots in assembly elections in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Bookies and exit polls indicate that Narendra Modi, Gujarat's controversial chief minister, is likely to come back for another term at the helm.
This is distressing news for Gujarat's religious minorities and for secular-democrats across India. Modi's ideology, actions and public style are widely seen as a threat not only to Indian
secularism - he thrives on stoking hatred against India's Muslims - but also to its democracy.
The outcome of the election is being keenly watched not just by Indians but by foreign governments as well.
Modi's fans see him as a messiah, someone who "has taught Muslims a lesson". He is also credited with having brought vibrancy to Gujarat's economy. His critics describe him as a "barbaric butcher" of Muslims in Gujarat, an "Indian Hitler" and the architect of the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat.
In early 2002, Gujarat witnessed a frenzy of communal violence, when mobs targeted members of the Muslim community in the state, after Hindu pilgrims were killed in an alleged attack on a train. Modi turned a blind eye to the killing, raping and looting of Muslims. Among those who carried out the massacres were members of Modi's party, the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and others of the Sangh Parivar, a family of Hindu right wing organizations. Around 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed and tens of thousands were displaced in the violence.
Modi swept elections held later that year after a campaign in which he played on fears of Muslim terrorists. He is likely to win again now, albeit with a smaller margin.
Sections in the United States can take some credit for his victory.
About 40% of all Indians in the US are of Gujarati origin; many of them are in the hotel/motel business there. Modi enjoys immense support among them. Hundreds of members of the US wing of the Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP) came down to Gujarat for the election campaign. As American citizens many of them might not have been able to vote for Modi but they made up for that with generous donations and soliciting support for Modi among the electorate.
Members of organizations like the OFBJP-USA and the Support Gujarat Progress Group were active right through the election campaign calling and e-mailing family and friends back home to vote for Modi. A website supportgujarat.org that was launched in November provides video clips, data and documents on why Narendra Modi should be elected again. These overseas groups have paid for full-page advertisements in leading publications in Gujarat highlighting Modi's achievements in the economic field. Much of the pro-Modi campaign on the Internet - the YouTube clips and ringtone downloads of Modi's speeches - was not done from Gujarat or other parts of India but from the US.
A US-based lobbying firm Apco Worldwide - it counts former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and Kazakhstan's President-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev among its clients - which has helped with sprucing up Modi's image. Hired in August this year its brief ostensibly was to sell Brand Modi to the world, to promote Gujarat as an investment destination. It was Apco that was behind Modi's networking at the World Economic Forum Conference at Dalian in China's northeast Liaoning province in September this year.
Apco was reportedly chosen by Modi over other public relations firms because of the high-profile personalities it boasts among its team, including Richard Allen, former chief foreign policy advisor for Ronald Reagan, and former US Democratic congressman Donald Bonker.
If Modi wins, he can be expected to get Apco to accelerate its lobbying in Washington and step up its efforts to improve his image abroad.
Modi was denied a visa by the US in March 2005. He was to address the Asian-American Hotel Owners Association in Florida and a public meeting in New York, and was also scheduled to meet business leaders. But a sustained campaign by the Coalition against Genocide, an umbrella organization of secular Indian-American groups opposed to Modi's brand of politics, which included lobbying of US senators and State Department officials resulted in the US government not only denying the Gujarat chief minister a diplomatic visa but also revoking his existing 10-year tourist/business visa.
The US Embassy in New Delhi said then that the decision to refuse Modi a visa was taken under a section of the US Immigration and Nationality Act, which forbids anyone who is "responsible for, or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom" from entering the US.
Modi's role in the Gujarat riots of 2002 and pressure from secular Indian-American groups had resulted in the US blocking Modi's entry into the US. The European Union too has made it clear that he is not welcome.
Modi did get to visit the United Kingdom in 2003. But in 2005, he was forced to cancel his three-day trip to the UK. Though he was not denied a visa, the British Foreign Office apparently conveyed to New Delhi its "strong concerns" about Modi - diplomatic speak for saying he was not welcome. Modi was told that the Foreign Office would have no contact with him. Neither would it provide him official security.
While the US and other Western countries have denied him a visa, they have not blocked their companies from doing business in Gujarat.
But Modi, his access to the US and much of Europe blocked, is aggressively wooing China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore for investment. He has visited these countries with huge business delegations in tow. And this is bound to have been noted in Washington and European capitals.
Gujarat has emerged India's number one investment destination. According to a recent study brought out by the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, the state attracted a quarter of the total investments that were made in all of India in 2006-07. The US and Europe would not like to be overtaken by China and Japan in the race to be a part of Gujarat's boom story.
Over the past month, officials and analysts from North American and European diplomatic missions in Delhi were reportedly camping in Gujarat to get a sense of the Modi's chances of returning as chief minister. A Delhi-datelined report in the International Herald Tribune cites officials as saying that even if he were to win, "it would be difficult to see how Washington could change its stance towards him".
However, it does seem that the US government has not actually been averse to dealing with him. In the months following the riots, the US government was critical of the Modi government. But its diplomats and officials were regularly visiting Gujarat and interacting with Modi and others in his administration. The decision to deny him a visa came not from conviction but under pressure from a very public campaign by secular Indian-American activists.
In the years since, US officials have renewed contacts with the Modi government. In November 2006, US Consul-General Michael S Owen met Modi in Gandhinagar, the state capital. Investment opportunities in Gujarat were reportedly discussed at the meeting.
Modi loyalists insist that it is a matter of time before the US gives him a visa. "Vibrant Gujarat" under Modi will be hard for the US to resist, they point out. His likely return as chief minister is expected to provide a shot in the arm to their efforts at improving his image worldwide.
Narendra Modi goes Green: a book on Climate change launched
Narendra Modi goes Green: a book on
Narendra Modi, Gujarat CM now in a new look after his book “Convenient Action-Gujarat’s response to challenges of Climate Change” launched in Ahmedabad today.
NARENDRA MODI' BOOK
The book explicitly documents the development philosophy that forms the core of his public policy and how it has contributed to both adaptation and mitigation of climate change. In an area more characterized by debates and discourses, the book stands apart in its emphasis on action and how a conscious climate change policies can bring tangible results.
The book therefore takes a wide range of readers, including politicians, scientists, researchers, students, writers and audience. Steve Howard, CEO, The Climate Group, praised Shri Narendra Modi for his move, saying: “I would call this unique collection of action a green Autobiography of Narendra Modi, who has shown a clear path and determined strategy to meet the challenges of Climate Change “.
A new book written by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was launched today at Ahmedabad’s Tagore hall by former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Nobel award winner RK Pachauri was the guest of honor in this function. Modi’s new book ‘Convenient action – Gujarat’s response to challenges of climate change’ is four-color 250 pages long. It is published by Macmillan Publishers India Ltd. The book will be available in market from 22 December onwards with price tag of Rs.695 for hard cover, and Rs.495 for paper back version.