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Gujarat No. 1 state..........This was found in a study by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.
Gujarat is No. 1 in Economic freedom, less in corruption, less in crime rate and so on.

Lets Congratulate the Gujarat Government. BTW, Rajiv Gandhi foundation was headed by Mss.Sonia Gandhi.

You can read entire article at the following link:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1117336,curpg-1.cms

The article is as follows:-



Rajiv Gandhi Foundation finds Gujarat No 1 state



NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi brand of governance has got an unexpected endorsement. The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, headed by Sonia Gandhi, has adjudged Modi’s Gujarat as the Number 1 state in economic freedom index.

A study ‘Economic Freedom for States of India’ carried out by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, the foundation’s think-tank, has come to this conclusion after analysing “economic freedom” in different states of India.

The study has defined economic freedom as “absence of goverment coercion or constraint in the production, distribution or consumption of goods and services beyond the extent necessary for citizens to protect and maintain liberty by itself”.

In other words, the foundation does not agree that individual liberty is under threat in Mr Modi’s Gujarat.

The study is all praise for Gujarat, as it grades state governments on its political decision-making; the extent to which justice is served; levels of corruption; and the extent of regulation in the labour market.

The study, which has taken into account the size of government, security of property rights and regulation of credit and business has said that Gujarat comes on top. On the size of goverment, Gujarat comes in the first position. For, only a small share of the GSDP is accounted for by government services. Here, the government has a small role as subsidiser. Power subsidies are among the lowest in Gujarat.



In what could be a discomforting finding for the Congress and the Left, the RGF study says: “Safety of life is an essential component (of economic freedom). Gujarat, AP, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and MP have a very small share of the total crimes being accounted for by violent crimes. This share is much higher in J&K, UP, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam, where murder, rape, kidnapping, abduction, riots, arson and dowry deaths are more rampant”.

The findings do not end here. “In Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and MP (all BJP ruled) a large share of the cases that are taken up by the police are ensured complete investigation, unlike in West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam”.

Also,“in Gujarat, least number of mandays are lost as a result of strikes and lockout as a ratio of total industrial workers in the state”.

Gujarat’s liberal licence regime has also come for praise in the report. “Constraints on trade imposed by market and license fees were also included in economic freedom. Corruption is also seen to be relatively low in Modi’s Gujarat. “In Gujarat, AP, Maharashtra, a smaller share of the total cases resgistered are pending investigation.”

“Gujarat, AP, Maharashtra and Haryana exhibited low minimum license fee for traders”.

“Corruption is measured in terms of cases pending investigation as a ratio of total cases registered under Prevention of Corruption and related acts. In Gujarat, AP, Maharashtra, a smaller share of the total cases resgistered are pending investigation. The situation, however, is bleak in West Bengal, J&K, HP, Jharkhand and Bihar”.




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