Gujarat Till 2001

We first clarify few points.
*Gujarat was a part of Maharashtra till 1960 and after that exactly on 1st may 1960 Gujarat comes into existence.
*There are mainly three parts in Gujarat. 1) Saurashtra region –rajkot, amreli,junagadh, bhavnagar etc 2) Kutch region – single district bordered with Pakistan, very large area mostly undeveloped till 2001. 3) Gujarat region—patan,mehsana, Gandhinagar,ahmedabad, vadodara, surat
*In the Kheda and Anand district (AMUL origin), almost one member from family from whole villages in the foreign land. Mostly in Motel business there.
*Till 1995, 99% congress rule then till 1997 no-congress, no-bjp rule almost vacuum during that period. Then from 1997 to 2001 –BJP-KESHUBAPA and from Oct 2001---You know very well –Narendra modi.
Now second step, we will see why Gujarat is developed all these years. Mostly we will cover upto 1997.

1) Industrialization :

First be clear in mind that Gujarat has the largest number of GIDCs (Gujarat Industry Development Corp) in almost at the talukalevel.
Second Gujarat has the more number of developed cities and each of them have specialty business like in surat- diamond, Rajkot-auto parts, Ahmedabad—chemicals, textile, Ankleshwar—chemical, Dahej- Petroleum, etc….
What happened till 2001 is like: GIDC are there but without proper facilities (connectivity, coordination, support, water, electricity). Specially road, water and light.

2) Agriculture:
Till date there was no innovation at all. All depends on GOD (rain). If rain is good during a year than good corps, otherwise drought.
No special status, schemes for agriculture like Saurashtra is mainly cultivating groundnuts, but no proper facility to sell it etc.
Although marketyards were there, but lacks in facilities like no proper rules, guidelines, road connectivity, water etc.
Saurashtra , surendranagar, Kutch and North Gujarat region is totally dependent on rain and wells. Canal facility is available in Anand, kheda and surat (south Gujarat region). There was not at all any try to do the same in previously mentioned region.

3) Security:

Gujaraties are by nature defensive not offensive, respect others. So there was no problem for security of Girls in the city during night also.
But there were so many gangs, mafia groups active in these years. Mostly with backup of Congress Government. There were gangs active in ahmedabad, porbander, surat, and in saurashtra region.
During every election there were number of incidents of group clash in small villages, towns.
Liquor is banned in Gujarat, but it was freely available in almost every part of the state, in the villages in the name of “DESI”. We used to hear news in the papers that numbers of villagers were died after drinking homemade liquor (recently in delhi – more than 38 died).

4) Riots:
Many readers are well aware of 2002 riots, but they may not know history of riots in Gujarat.
Earlier we were used to hear the news of riots in big cities like vadodara, ahmedabad, Rajkot etc. Generally during the year there was almost 5-6 incidents during which police had to shell tier gas, 144 in various areas mostly muslims and surrounding areas.
And you were shocked by the results of the riots that in not most of the incidents, in all incidents till 2001 hindus are at the receiving end. We had not heard or seen anywhere that muslims were killed during that riots. And there were history of some bigger riots that 2001 atleast 5-6 times.
5) Roads:
Gujarat is well connected with almost all villages(more than 97%). We can say that there were the roads as per requirement of that particular time, but mostly in bad condition.
6) Water:
Worst water crisis in Saurashtra and kutch region, but till date(1995) no proper/lifetime solution for the same. What we had seen, is that after feb-march, most of the villages had to dependent on water tankers in the whole saurashtra and kutch region. Also almost same situation in north Gujarat from April onwards.
But by all these years, they had not think about it. You will see in our next section how this problem is solved.
7) Light (power)
Light situation is almost same as the rest of the country during that years. Load shedding in town and villages were common for almost 7-8 hours during a day.
Farmer get the light but in installments, they have to constantly keep eye on bulb outside their pump house, to see when light comes and goes. In big cities there was not much problem. But in villages it was there.
8) Economic Situation:
As there already developed businesses in the state, financial situation was good, but not up to the mark. State budget comes into deficit. We read in the paper almost every one/two year that “Today Government has taken overdraft from RBI/Central Government to pay the salary of state employee or debt. “
9) Government Employees/Companies:
They were typical government employees. Most of the administrative positions are with non-gujarati officers. Because gujaraties are mostly involved in business not in study. Most of the south Indian IAS officers were there in key positions and they ran the same with some kind of monopoly.
No particular target/motivation was there. Whenever any government company gets pure IAS officer as a MD or chairman it was in profit state otherwise mostly in debt state.

Now you probably feel like local gujarati who have general idea about Gujarat and past situation till 2001. Now hold your breath to take a roller costar ride to see total change after 2001.

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