Partisan barbs at Gujarat model unmerited

At the time of discussions on the Plan allocations for Gujarat for both 2010-11 and 2011-12, the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Commission, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, paid glowing tributes to the Gujarat model of development, its mobilisation and deployment of resources, financial discipline, growth rates of GDP and per capita investment and income, and many innovative projects such as a 3000-acre solar park, expansion of underground sewerage and skills development schemes. The CRS report has only confirmed these findings when it talks of Gujarat being India's best example of impressive development successes.

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