A nice article by Balbir Punj on how Narendra Modi is turning Gujarat around, which is causing such a heartburn to the Marxists in W. Bengal. Modi has a dream of eradicating poverty from Gujarat in another 3 years! Also his innovative schemes to provide education, like the excerpt below from the article,
...His innovative programme, Vidyalakshmi, which provides a Rs 1,000 bond to every girl child who enrols in the first grade in villages with a low female literacy rate, has attracted countrywide attention. The girl child gets the money once she completes class VII, with interest accrued on Rs 1,000 for seven years. He has set up a separate fund for it and all the gifts he receives when he visits rural areas are put into it. ...
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Gujurat seems to have acheived economic take-off. TamilNadu also seems to be leaving the rest of South India behind. Punjab has fully recovered from all that Kahlistan business.
The risk to these places is the migration from Bihar, UP, Assam, and even WB
does anyone else find it funny that International Womens Day is on --> 3/8 <-- !
also see Gujarat government’s Rs.11crore bonanza on Women’s Day
A Kanya kelavani Gaurav Puraskar has been set up for individuals or institutions making significance contribution in the field of girl education. The award is at district level with first prize of Rs.50,000, second 40,000 and third 30,000.
Families having daughters only will get Rs.1,000 as incentive if these girls are going to school. The schools which have 100 percent registration of girls and zero dropout rate will get an award of Rs.25,000. Teachers of such schools will get appreciation certificates.
She said that because of the persistence efforts to promote education among girls the dropout rate in primary schools has comedown from 49.74 to 11.64 in last nine years. In the case of students in class one to five the rate has fallen from 27.56 to 3.68.
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