GARVI GUJARAT.....lage raho

According to the August 8 report of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, the richest city in India is now Surat, ahead of Bangalore and Madras, with an average annual household income of Rs0.45 million (over $11,000 per year).

Between 2004-5 and 2007-8 Surat’s middle class doubled in size and its poor reduced by a third.

The fifth richest city in India is now Ahmedabad, ahead of Bombay and Delhi, and miles ahead of Calcutta

Of Gujarat’s 18,048 villages, 17,940 have electricity!!!!!

Thirty per cent of India’s cotton is grown in Gujarat, 40 per cent of India’s art-silk is manufactured in Surat, employing 0.7 Million people.

The world’s third largest denim manufacturer is Ahmedabad’s Arvind Mills.

A KPMG report says 40 per cent of India’s pharmacy industry is based in Gujarat with companies like Torrent, Zydus Cadila, Alembic, Dishman and SunPharma

Some of the best business communities in India — Parsis, Jains, Memons, Banias, Khojas and Bohras – speak Gujarati.

Ten of the 25 richest Indians are Gujarati.

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 just 5% of the population of India.

PROUD TO BE RESIDING IN GUJARAT