Development has kept Gujarat insurgency-free: CM Anandiben Patel

Giving details of the Commando training centre by the Gujarat Police, she suggested setting up a “centre of excellence” for the zone.

Chief Minister Anandiben Patel Tuesday said that development in Gujarat had kept the state “insurgency-free”. Patel said this while addressing the 21st Western Zonal Council meeting, presided over by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, at Panaji in Goa.

Giving details of the Commando training centre by the Gujarat Police, she suggested setting up a “centre of excellence” for the zone. For internal security, she said that although 15 per cent of Gujarat’s population comprised tribal people, it remained free from Naxal movement because of the state’s proactive pro-tribal policies. It vindicated the theory that development keeps insurgency away, she said.

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Patel said that Gujarat was now a power surplus state, but in the absence of any express energy corridor, it could not send surplus power to deficit states in the south India. While the western states were more developed than many other states, she said that Gujarat had undertaken effective steps to check industrial pollution.

She suggested evolving Marine Outfall Norms from effluent treatment plants by the Central Pollution Control Board. She attributed the World Bank’s recent state-wise ranking of Gujarat as the best state in “Ease of Doing Business” to the state government’s transparent, dynamic policies and good governance.
Talking about the social-economic parameters, she called for co-operation and sharing data by states on crimes, including human trafficking. She said that Gujarat had taken several gender equality and women’s welfare schemes, like 181 Helpline ‘Abhayam’

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