SURAT - RICHEST
AHAMEDABAD
5TH RICHEST
SURAT IS THE RICHEST CITY IN INDIA
- not Bangalore
nor Chennai
AHMEDABAD
IS THE 5TH RICHEST, not Mumbai nor Delhi
HOW &
WHY?
According
to the August 8, 2010 report of the National Council of Applied Economic
Research, the richest city in India is now Surat, ahead of Bangalore and
Chennai, with an average annual household income of Rs 0.45 million (over
$11,000 per year).
80 per
cent of all diamonds sold in any part of the world are polished in Surat 's 10,000 diamond
units.
The only
non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
diamond bourse (stock exchange) are GUJARATIS.
Between
2004-5 and 2008-10 Surat
's middle class doubled in size and its poor reduced by a third.
The fifth
richest city in India is now
Ahmadabad, ahead of Mumbai and Delhi,
and miles ahead of Calcutta.
The
percentage of man-days (labour class, manual labour workers etc.) lost in
Gujarat due to labour unrest is 0.42 per cent, the lowest in India.
Gujaratis DO NOT believe in meaningless strikes, hartals etc.
Of Gujarat's 18,048 villages, 17,940 have electricity. Chief
Minister Narendra Modi, has been voted as one of the most dynamic, hard working
political leaders in the Country. You can see why. Amma, Didi, Behnji &
Manmohan can do well to take a leaf from Modi's book of Excellence.
The
world's largest oil refinery is in Jamnagar.
Owned by Reliance, it already refines 660,000 barrels of oil every day and will
double that this year.
Thirty
per cent of India 's cotton
is grown in Gujarat.
40 per
cent of India 's Art-silk is
manufactured in Surat.
Gujarat thus employs atleast 0.7 million people.
The
world's third largest Denim manufacturer (for your trusty jeans) is Ahmedabad's
Arvind Mills.
The state
of Gujarat's GDP has been growing at 12 per cent a year for the last 12 years,
as fast as China's.
India's wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani
of Reliance, is a Gujarati. Forbes says he is the world's fifth richest man,
worth $43 billion.
Azim
Premji of Wipro, is also a Gujarati. He is the world's 21st richest man, worth
$17 billion.
Ten of
the 25 richest Indians are Gujaratis. Some of the best & shrewdest business
communities in India
have proud Gujarati Ancestry. Parsis, Jains, Memons, Banias, Khojas, and Bohras
- all speak Gujarati.
The two
great leaders of the subcontinent, the Mahatma and the Quaid, were both
Gujaratis from trading communities. One a Bania, the other a Khoja.
Gujaratis
number 55 million, five per cent of India's population living on six
per cent of surface area, but hold 30 per cent of all Indian stock.
Gujaratis
account for 16 per cent of all Indian exports and 17 per cent of GDP.
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