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Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 04 Jan 2011 14:29

HP Civic Body Election

http://himachal.us/2011/01/04/bjp-congr ... s/ravinder

Karnatak ZP/TP Election

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/04/karn ... -live.html

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 04 Jan 2011 15:05

BJP wins 12 districts, manages to emerge as single largest party

Bangalore: In what can be see as a big relief for chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP in Karnataka has emerged as the single largest party in panchayat polls on Tuesday. However, no clear winner has emerged in the polls. The ruling BJP has managed to win in 12 districts out of the 30 districts in which polls were held.

The BJP, Congress and JD-S were locked in a three-way fight in a majority of the 1,013 zila and 3,659 taluka panchayat seats.

Yeddyurappa, who is facing charges of favouring his kin with prime land in and around Bangalore, led his party in the poll battle.

These are the first elections to the local governing councils after the BJP came to power in the state in May 2008. (and still BJP manages: morons of HT)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/BJP-wins- ... 46247.aspx#

arjunm · Post by **arjunm** » 04 Jan 2011 22:23

vina wrote:
svenkat wrote:While BJP's contributions in its six years were crucial,yet it could not come back to power..
There is no Vajpayee anymore in the BJP. Without him, the BJP has absolutely zero chance of coming anywhere close to power.

Yeah, the BJP is better off getting Nitish Kumar as the Prime Ministerial candidate and put him as the head of the NDA coalition to run for PM.

There are no leaders of note within the BJP. Oh, in Karnataka, they have been shown up as a bunch of thieves in the same mould of worthies such as 'umble farmer (think Katta Subrahmanya's kids, Yeddy's kids..).. Party with a difference , aye ? The only thing that is different is overt hate for a section of the citizenry.

Inspire of land scam and all that BJP sweep the district polls beating Congress and JD(S)
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/126 ... -jd-s.html
BJP bests Congress, JD-S in Karnataka district polls
Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday captured power in 12 of the 30 zila (district) and 68 of the 176 taluka (sub-district) panchayats, far below its ambition of sweeping the year-end polls to the local governing councils.

The Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) bagged four zila panchayats (ZPs) each and 31 and 29 taluka panchayats (TPs) respectively. In 10 districts and 48 sub-districts, the verdict was split and the three parties have begun calculations on how to capture power in as many of these as possible to increase their tally.

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 04 Jan 2011 23:37

vina wrote:Dang. How I wish the people had voted heavily against the BJP govt led by Yeddy. It has zero accomplishments against it's name an already huge list of scams by the children and leading lights of the govt. When disaster struck N. Karnataka, all Yeddy did was weep on TV. I dint see anything else happen . Have they even rebuilt the damage, or is it like a Pakistani response to the floods with people still living out in the open.

Shedding tears and doing a Kannada cinema like tear jerk actseems to be the standard tactic and response to everything from corruption to floods to dissidence to everything.

While I agree that yeddy has been the bane of BJP recently, the fact is , there is no credible alternative at present. The congress was caught misusing the flood victim funds. the deve gowda family is known for swallowing acres of prime land in Bangalore and elsewhere. If rumors are to be believed, lot of areas in and around padmanabhanagar is owned by deve gowda family.

The BJP had a chance to provide a clean image and good adminstration. However, it is lurching from one controversy to another. I hope they clean up their acts in the remaining period and provide good administration.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 05 Jan 2011 08:16

putnanja wrote:
The BJP had a chance to provide a clean image and good adminstration. However, it is lurching from one controversy to another. I hope they clean up their acts in the remaining period and provide good administration.

Good that BJP has won this round.
Right now the Congress has no leadership and no image in Ktaka
JD U has some credibility and Bangarappa jumped right before the election and brought bad luck to that party

Only alternative is BJP and their only problem is the small crooks and reddy brother blackmails and independent hustlers

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 05 Jan 2011 09:28

If the opposition is in disarray then small time crooks and scalawags can be neutralized.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 05 Jan 2011 09:30

We will rebuild Vijayanagar

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 05 Jan 2011 11:57

Theoji,

What was the 'thanthi' incident?

Very good analysis of TN scene,saar.

Expanding on Theojis comments,ADMK has no future in TN.It is going to be Cong vs DMK in the near future.Tamizhaadu is highly urbanised,literacy and political consciousness is very high.The accent is on business and development.

MGR operated in a predominantly rural TN with low literacy and evolving political consciousness.

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 05 Jan 2011 19:58

Venkat,

I meant to say the 'Dinakaran' incident and for some reason said 'Thanthi'. My bad.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 05 Jan 2011 22:51

http://www.politicsparty.com/KARNATAKA_ ... S_2011.php

kshatriya · Post by **kshatriya** » 06 Jan 2011 03:51

Theo Great Analysis about TN, But I would like to respectfully disagree. I have been a silent reader of BR, But I would like to post my Analysis about what might happen in the upcoming TN elections. The Media might potray Stalin DMK as front runners, But the ground reality is very different.

You were right about the part about DMK being a Shoo in till a few months ago. But they are going to lose this elections. DMK these days primarily is a party supported mainly by Christians, Muslims and Dalits. They have successfully used the Aryan-Dravidian Divide to their Advantage. However this election they won't be able to pull a fast one mainly because of what their MLA's and Land Mafia did in various regions. I'll break it down into regions.

Chennai: Heavy Chance DMK might win half of Chennai if its spear headed by Stalin. However they will lose in the outskirts of the city and the nearby villages. DMK land mafia did lot of land grabbing around this area in the last 4-5 years.

Coimbatore: No chance of DMK winning here. Coimbatore has voted differently from the rest of TN for the last 2 elections. They did their World Tamil Congress, But there are other factors here, that might never let him win here. People still hold DMK as the reason for the Coimbatore bomb blasts in 1998. Some of the accused very recently released as well. Coimbatore is dominated by Mills and Industries and the way things look, Communists are going to win here this time. Also Coimbatore was briefly a BJP bastion.

Salem: DMK will have a washout here this time. Veerapandi Arumugam and his sons have done so many atrocitites in the last 2 years and things look very bad for them.

Madurai: Land Grabbing, Dinakaran Incident, Presence of Vijaykanth will severly dent DMK's chances this time in Madurai.

Kanyakumari and Southern Districts: All though dominated by Christians , Dalits etc, This might get split here mainly because of the silent support for LTTE. People here think DMK is party responsible for the death of LTTE. Guys like Sebastian Seeman have been openly campaigning against DMK in these regions. And 2G has added fire to the fuel.

There is already vocal support from the locan Congress to snap ties with DMK. So this election is mainly about defeating DMK. Won't be suprised if PMK also ditches DMK and joins ADMK. Jayalalitha winning this time would be the end of the DMK in TN. So the odds are ADMK/Vijaykanth + some more allies, Could be PMK winning it this time

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 06 Jan 2011 09:16

kshatriya wrote: Won't be suprised if PMK also ditches DMK and joins ADMK.

Kinda disoriented and shaken today. Is PMK on the same side as it was yesterday or is it on the side it wanted to be with yesterday? Will it remain on the same side tomorrow or will it move to the side that it thought it should have been with day before yesterday?

What is ayya saab doing: is he still fighting the case against Khusbhoo madam? Or is he making peace between Thirumaa and Ezhilmalai for the umpteenth time? Or is he passing comments on how aiims runs now that the good doc has departed?

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 06 Jan 2011 10:21

Bihar becoming model for progressive governance

Orissa, Madhya Pradesh Follow Nitish’s Popular Schemes

WITH the Bihar electorate extending Nitish Kumar’s lease over Patna, other states are losing no time in adopting his policies and initiatives. Once a cautionary tale of state failure, it seems Bihar is becoming a model for progressive governance.

Taking a cue from Nitish Kumar’s celebrated initiative to give bicycles to girl students, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik has now expanded a similar scheme in his state. In Orissa, girl students belonging to scheduled castes or scheduled tribes attending class 8 or class 11 were being given free bicycles. This scheme was started two years after Kumar started the Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojana in Bihar in 2006. From this year onwards, all girl students in class 10 will get bicycles irrespective of their caste.

If populist handouts are a necessary evil in competitive politics involving a rent-seeking electorate, bicycles to girl children are perhaps the best manifestation of the practice, compared with the colour TVs and refrigerators popular in the southern states. While handouts in the form of white goods usually end up flooding the black markets in neighbouring states, with lasting benefit to none, a scheme linked to education and targetted at a vulnerable demographic is a much better ‘populist’ use of state funds. With the scheme finding acceptability in more states, it might spell a massive upside for bicycle manufacturers in the form of swelling orderbooks. Karnataka government decided to hand out cash this year instead of bicycles, as manufacturers were unable to make enough units for the scheme.

If Orissa has adopted a carrot from Bihar CM’s toolkit, neighbouring Madhya Pradesh has adopted a stick. The state has drafted an anti-graft law that will enable the confiscation of properties of a civil servant if there is prima facie evidence of corruption. This follows a similar legislation in Bihar that has already been used in the case of one bureaucrat. This was one of Nitish Kumar’s earliest initiatives in his second term, and he had made a resonating promise that properties of corrupt officials will be confiscated and schools will be opened at those premises.

Madhya Pradesh was hit by a series of highprofile corruption cases involving top bureaucrats last year. IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi was suspended after raids found more than 3 crore in cash at their residence. IAS officer Rajesh Rajora and state health director Ashok Sharma were also suspended after they were found in possession of wealth disproportionate to their income.

ET 6th Jan 2011

Theo_Fidel · Post by **Theo_Fidel** » 06 Jan 2011 10:59

Kshatriya, That too is an excellent analysis. Says a lot for how fluid things are. You are right that it depends partly on how the alliances line up. I wouldn't count out the DMK just yet. Despite the seeming nepotism at the top they are the only party to hold regular internal elections, how ever flawed.

JJ needs a wave. Status quo favors DMK.

Remember that the natural rural congress base now resides with the AIADMK not the DMK. Also remember how the Christians in the South vote. The first BJP assembly member in TN was sent there by the Nadars of Nagercoil. Even communists have been successful around here. The AIADMK depends much more than the DMK on personality politics. Especially the feudal-dalit base in South TN. And Coimbatore is still in play. The groupings there have been out of power for a looong time and are waiting to see which side is more likely to win before committing.

I still think that TN is urbanizing with a vengeance, esp. in the south and the old stable equations are breaking down. Tirunelveli and Palayammkottai now hold the majority of the population in their regions.

As far as the PMK, remember Ramadoss supports the splitting of TN into smaller pieces. This is his thought process. I don't think the PMK got even 5% votes last assembly elections. The DMDK of Vijayakanth has been steadily cannibalizing the PMK base.

kshatriya · Post by **kshatriya** » 06 Jan 2011 11:09

Theo,

Also don't forget PC pushing his son in TN. Posters of him all over Chennai, Coimbatore etc.
And if PC did release Radia Tapes, The odds are more are on the way. Like M J Akbar predicted, it will be a slow release. With 4 months to ago my money will be on something nasty about DMK will be out or may be A Raja arrested

With Azaghiri openly going after Kanimozhi and A Raja, The end has begun.

The film industry is also baying for DMK's blood for monopolyzing it.

arjunm · Post by **arjunm** » 09 Jan 2011 01:41

No matter what the Congress party does to unseat Yeddyurappa government, they won't be successful because of bad taste in the people's mind due to the previous record of developmental apathy under Congress and JD(S) rule in comparison to this guy guy. This guy may be little corrupt and is involved in scamming few corers here and there in land related matters etc., but he is a no non-sense hard working guy and, specially while taking care of the infra-structures and overall development of Karnataka. This guy is workoholic and took extra measure for the vital infra needed to supplement fast space growth of IT sector, like the recent taste run of Metro system etc. So the Big IT giants shown faith and their approval.Recently IT giant like INFOSYS opened their global training centre ,which will train up to 10,000 IT guys in Karnataka. To see it to believe it-My only objection why they invited the Congress chair person the global scamstress Sonia Maino to take the photo ops in a BJP run state, the CM whom she castigates in every opportunity to hide her own mis-deeds of mega scams.

Here is the you tube video-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHvLAiBC8dg

ITPL Bangalore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-M-SnDP ... re=related

Soft Ware City Bangalore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubdODdx ... re=related

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 09 Jan 2011 03:13

kshatriya wrote:
With Azaghiri openly going after Kanimozhi and A Raja, The end has begun.

The film industry is also baying for DMK's blood for monopolyzing it.

Yesterday the news I got was that now DMK - K and Raja are talking about how much money SG has taken.
They want to expose it to the public.

Stalin is really upset that DMK name has taken a hit and he has made Raja to go stay away from the residence

vina · Post by **vina** » 09 Jan 2011 07:14

Yawn.. Am in Madurai right now visiting relatives . Gotta say, that the temple and it's surrounding never looked better. The inner streets around the temple (the Chitra strees, N,S, E &W) have been made pedestrian only, with nice tiles laid and cleaned up and everything. Mind you this is the Ayappa season and usually during this time, given the crush, the entire used to stink to high heavens of urine. No longer. All nice and everything.

More latere

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Jan 2011 07:41

Vina say a prayer for me! I visited in Jan 1996.

vina · Post by **vina** » 09 Jan 2011 14:17

Done Ramana Garu. As a good old SDRE, I immediately discarded pant/shirt, put an a 8 yard dhoti and one T -Shirt , parked the car and went "native" by getting into the bus.

The buses are all JNURM type new buses with big digital displays and are Tata Marco Polo or Ashok Leyland , with Irizar TVS built coaches. All very nice with plush Volvo style PU seats with paddings and everything. Very nice . The city is in far far nicer shape than Chennai . If one compares the state of Adayar GandhiNagar and the other areas of Madurai, compared to how Chennai historically was with relation to Madurai, it does look like Dear Fearless Heart Beautiful Mountain atleast does "piss and plospelity" better than the Man of Steel and Miss Fruit Speech managed to do in Chennai! The city seems far cleaner and better organized and more spic and span than I have ever seen it earlier.

And in addition, the TN govt, true to their PRC style playbook seem to have played and another "shock and awe" kind of shakinah! After the TV free for all ration card holders stunt, this is the latest .

Every one knows how big Pongal/Shankaranti is for Tamils and Dr Artiste even went and made it the "New Year Day" (1st of Thai , pronounced Thigh) instead of the 1st of Chitra / Vishu as it traditionally is and the traditional sweet pongal on Sankaranti is a must for any and every household rich and poor.

Well for this pongal, every ration card holder got a special pack for pongal which had all the ingrediets. Rice, Dhal, Jaggery (gur), the crystalized sugar (kalkandu in Tamil.. shakar para in Hindi I think) and all the other ingredients for making pongal , including, elaichi, and kishmish .. everything except milk (all the non perishables I think) for FREE

. Have a nice day!

That said, the politeness and amount of civility in S. Tamil Nadu (Tiruchi, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Nagarcoil, etc) is just amazing. The N. Tamil Nadu and Chennai are particularly crass and vulgar and cluster with N. Delhi in that respect. Bus conductors are polite when you ask them for directions , the buses stop and pick up people rushing to catch the bus, they ask you where you are going out of concern that you get into the wrong bus,direct you to the right bus,all that with great politeness. Madras early the first thing you hear in the morning in the bus is this in Tamil "Saavu , girahki. Kaleli vandu chillere kakeriye! Chillerai ittni vara vendi daan" .ie " Maut ka girahak. Subah subah akar change mangta hai. Chutta leker kyon nahin ate ho ?"

In, S. Tamil Nadu, even the Tamil accent has a musical lilt to it,so unless you are used to it, have familiarity with it via family /from having lived there,it can sound a little odd to the ears of folks from Madras and N.Arcot etc. Coimbatore is pretty civilized to . Only Madras is different. It really clusters with Dilli .

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 09 Jan 2011 17:24

^^ If you find Madurai side tamil has become all nice, then I think you will be in for a shock when you hit Coimbatore side - we have always been extremely civilised

. Madurai side I found quite rough and tough type tamil (Gangster Madurai dillu type attitude amongst even ordinary folk) on the streets, when I visited about 3 years ago.

I don't know about you, but when I last visited Meenakshi Amman temple, we were walking out close to the gates entrance. Beggar follows and was asking for money persistently. I shoo him away. Discreetly, police lady walks up to him and gives him a nice telling off. I hear distinctly policelady say "Innor thaduvai appadi pannen, avlo daan....!!" (translation: If I see you do that again, thats it!) lol! Quite impressed - Good for tourists etc.

The temple has had pedestrian only streets for 3 or 4 years and is quickly becoming the norm in other temples around TN.

Airavat · Post by **Airavat** » 10 Jan 2011 12:09

Divide Nagaland

While all the speakers at the rally stressed on one message – the Frontier Nagaland should be created – they also reiterated that the demand for a separate state is not against any tribe, faction or state government. The speakers also strongly maintained that the demand of a Frontier Nagaland is to address the problems afflicting the eastern Naga people especially with regard to development, employment and social, economic and political. ENPO president, Mangko declared that the ‘statehood demand is a people’s demand.” He assured that the participants that the ENPO will carry forward the work till the end as mandated by the eastern Naga people.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 10 Jan 2011 21:14

Vansh sabha

The Princely State Of India
Analyse Parliament, and a disturbing fact emerges: India is going back to monarchy
Patrick French

It had first become apparent to me during the 2004 election campaign, and it niggled again now. The problem was the first-time MPs. With their spanking faces and sense of bland entitlement, these young men and women were treated with reverence by the Indian media, although their achievement was usually to have shared genes with an earlier leader. I watched one of these new MPs on television as he drove through the dust of his inherited family constituency in an enormous Pajero, turning now and then to a waiting camera with a purposeful frown and saying things like “I want to help these people, like my father did” or “We are going to make India No. 1.” He looked like a giant baby who had been dressed up and put in a big buggy and sent off on an adventure.

The disjuncture between these fresh fruits and the hopes of the many millions of individuals they were supposedly representing was massive. In person, they were perfectly affable and often idealistic, but as a phenomenon, they were damaging. Was Indian national politics becoming hereditary, with power passing to a few hundred families, even as the elections themselves became more vibrant and open?

Interesting data collection of herediatary MPs in India.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 10 Jan 2011 21:26

UP student unions protest Rahul Gandhi's varsity tour
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story ... -tour.html

UPA has given a scandal a day: BJP
http://www.zeenews.com/news679451.html

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 11 Jan 2011 08:51

Sorry for the noob questions, but is there a BJP-AGP alliance in Asom for the coming state assy polls? TIA.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 11 Jan 2011 10:12

Airavat wrote:Divide Nagaland

While all the speakers at the rally stressed on one message – the Frontier Nagaland should be created – they also reiterated that the demand for a separate state is not against any tribe, faction or state government. The speakers also strongly maintained that the demand of a Frontier Nagaland is to address the problems afflicting the eastern Naga people especially with regard to development, employment and social, economic and political. ENPO president, Mangko declared that the ‘statehood demand is a people’s demand.” He assured that the participants that the ENPO will carry forward the work till the end as mandated by the eastern Naga people.

werent they fighting for a greater nagaland before??

Airavat · Post by **Airavat** » 12 Jan 2011 05:09

^^^Yes. It shows the fissures within the Naga tribes and sub-regions.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 12 Jan 2011 08:39

That is the power of religion.

Religious rituals are part of every individual's life. So we need to develop patriotism intertwined with their religious/dharmic lifestyle. One cannot have patriotism unless one's belief system is rooted in the lands they live in {KEY POINT}. That is why the need of the hour is to intertwine hindu dharma with these land. Land without religion is like a palace without foundation.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 12 Jan 2011 09:02

Airavat wrote:^^^Yes. It shows the fissures within the Naga tribes and sub-regions.

Fissures can be manufactured and countered too. This is too fishy. A state whose population if compared to UP, Maha or AP may not be beyond a moholla and we keep hearing about their nuisance creation. Too much of pampering in the name of democracy is the reason of all these demands but intellectual keep writing some thing or other spin.

India is becoming more than a soft-banana state.

arjunm · Post by **arjunm** » 12 Jan 2011 13:47

The world is at Gujarat's doorstep

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 265104.cms

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 12 Jan 2011 13:51

^^Yup, it is, no doubt.

The Econ times rag is full with full page supplements on the Guj vibrancy summit.

Botht he ambani bhais seem to agree on something finally, besides both sharing the dias in the summit. Anil calls NaMo the 'most important change agent in the past decade' (take that ye 2Gs!), and Mukeshbhai declares that 'Gujrat will be the first Indian state to eliminate poverty' only. Wow or what?

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 12 Jan 2011 15:17

See NaMo tackling DDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa8dpoB5 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrY24KCG ... re=related

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 12 Jan 2011 18:44

Junior coalition partner teaching duffer gandhi how to behave

NCP hits out at Rahul, asks him not to show 'arrogance'
http://www.sify.com/news/ncp-hits-out-a ... hhegi.html

arjunm · Post by **arjunm** » 13 Jan 2011 01:13

Raghavendra wrote: Junior coalition partner teaching duffer gandhi how to behave

NCP hits out at Rahul, asks him not to show 'arrogance'
http://www.sify.com/news/ncp-hits-out-a ... hhegi.html

Yeah, probably Congress party members are being terrorised by these Mother Son duo and no body dares to correct him or coach him rather just send their spokes person in TV channels or via media to justify his idiotic naivety with added lies.

Here is an interview of Adytya Mittal at Davos to a French TV channel, the son and heir of one of the richest man in the world. Just look at his poise and diplomatic way of handling some difficult questions regarding the expansion policies about their steel empire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RsZVEL ... re=related

Contrast Rahul Gandhi tackling angry Bihar students

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv_rtFWLps

vera_k · Post by **vera_k** » 13 Jan 2011 02:23

arjunm wrote:The world is at Gujarat's doorstep
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 265104.cms

What is so great? Rahul and Sonia achieved 1,67,000 cr. in one deal

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Jan 2011 02:58

In Madras a giant passes away

Amalgamated's Sivasailam passes away

He was a great person.

Gaurav_S · Post by **Gaurav_S** » 14 Jan 2011 04:05

Rs 20.83-lakh-cr MoUs at Vibrant Gujarat

BS Reporter / Ahmedabad January 14, 2011, 0:57 IST

Link

The two-day Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2011 concluded today with investment commitments of Rs 20.83 lakh crore ($450 billion) committed. The investment pledged by national and international corporate giants this year is far higher than the Rs 12.37 lakh crore in Summit 2009.

The government said 7,936 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed during the mega event. “The investment pledged will provide employment to 52 lakh people,” said Narendra Modi, chief minister, at the valedictory session.

During the summit, Modi had one-to-one meetings with 650 delegates from 43 countries. As many as 1,400 foreign delegates from 101 nations participated this year. The urban development sector was the biggest gainer today, with investment commitment of Rs 2,26,274 crore. Some major projects include Essel Infraproject Ltd’s Rs 5,200-crore solid waste management and sewage treatment projects and L&T infrastructure Development’s Rs 5000-crore Ahmedabad monorail project.

Earlier in the day, the ports and ship building sector witnessed major investments to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore, with as many as 97 MoUs. Adani HPPL Ltd pledged Rs 8,000 crore to develop a bulk-general cargo terminal at Hazira. The Essar Group signed two MoUs, involving a total investment of around Rs 8,100 crore under its group company, Essar Bulk Terminals Ltd ,for expansion of the deep water terminal at Hazira and extension of the company’s Salaya jetty.

The pharma and healthcare sectors saw investments of Rs 26,000 crore by national and international companies. Of this, Rs 15,600 crore will be in health and Rs 10,686 crore in pharma.

Day one of VGGIS, the fifth in the series, saw investment commitment of around Rs 15 lakh crore. Of the MoUs signed yesterday, 48 worth Rs 3.05 lakh crore were in power, 13 MoUs worth Rs 1.22 lakh crore for various Special Investment Regions and 41 MoUs worth Rs 1.34 lakh crore in the mineral sector.

Nearly 8000 MOU's are not bad at all. The next challenge for NaMo is to convert these MOU's into real investment. Real Estate has also seen large chunk of MOU's signed by Tata and various other companies to build affordable housing, hotels etc..

Gaurav_S · Post by **Gaurav_S** » 14 Jan 2011 04:34

Rs10,000 crore worth education MoUs signed in Gujarat

Link

The education sector attracted large number of investors as MoUs worth a whopping Rs10,000 crores were signed on the first day of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2011.

Different parties in various educational arenas inked no less than 93 MoUs - which added up to investment to the tune of Rs9900.71 crores in Gujarat.

MoUs were signed in three major areas - higher, technical and secondary education. Thirty-seven MoUs were signed in higher education segment drawing a total investment of Rs4756.50 crores.

The technical education area witnessed a total investment of Rs3196.21crores with 33 MoUs being signed whereas 23 MoUs were signed in secondary educational segment, drawing a total investment of Rs1948 crores.

Prominent educational bodies as well as corporates evinced interest in setting up educational institutions in the state. Reliance Foundation will invest Rs128 crores for setting up an engineering college under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model in Jamnagar.

Amruta Vishwa Vidyalaya will set up an educational institute for Rs250 crores. Charutar Vidya Mandal of Vallabh Vidyanagar will invest Rs500 crores for installing a technical and research complex.

Apart from them, Global Educational Trust is coming up with a Global Discovery school for Rs500 crores.

Interesting and innovative MoUs also made their way at the summit. A project by 'Zee Learn' will be taken up to improve the educational scenario in 25 primary schools, run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

International Innovation and Research Foundation too signed a MoU to establish 'Innovation University'. Team Lease India Pvt Ltd evinced interest for setting up a 'Skill University' in Gujarat

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 14 Jan 2011 04:59

Rajdeep and his fellow congress butt-buddy getting b*tch slapped by a Gujarati muslim and journalist.

http://ibnlive.in.com/#hp_player3

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 14 Jan 2011 06:24

I wish somone proposes sat dish based Internet for remote areas.