`Vibrant Gujarat` Model: Creating jobs for India`s youth |
MILPITAS, Calif. – Every month, around one million people in India turn 25 and are ready to enter the workforce, but there just aren`t enough jobs to go around. Sounds bleak, but in the last 15 or so years Gujarat has taken a leadership role to turn this adversity into an opportunity. In 2003, one year after the state was battered by the Godhra riots, Narendra Modi, then the state`s chief minister, launched an ambitious project called `Vibrant Gujarat` to rekindle investor interest in his state. Vibrant Gujarat is an investment summit held every other year. It seems to have worked. Commitments totaling crores of rupees generated by the biennial summits have made Gujarat an even bigger manufacturing powerhouse, as speakers observed here Sept. 23 at a networking dinner sponsored by the United States India Strategic Partnership Forum and the Consulate General of San Francisco.A delegation headed by Arvind Agarwal, additional chief secretary of Gujarat, came to share the state`s new initiatives with Silicon Valley leaders, hoping to spur interest in them to invest in Gujarat.
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