Gujarat to establish GRIT similar to Niti Ayog

In the ninth meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog organised in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel expressed Gujarat’s commitment in realising the Prime Minister’s resolution of Viksit Bharat@2047.

CM Patel said that the state government has prepared the Gujarat@2047 dynamic document-roadmap.

He added that the state government wants to move ahead with its goal of improving the living standards of the people of the state through this roadmap based on two main pillars of ‘Earning Well’ and ‘Living Well’.

CM Patel announced the establishment of Gujarat State Institution for Transformation (GRIT) as a think tank to achieve these goals in a well-planned and orderly manner.

He said that Gujarat, with a population of 5% of the country’s population, has contributed 8.3% to the GDP in the year 2022-23.

Not only this, in the country’s economy, Gujarat is moving ahead with the name of becoming a 3.5 trillion US dollar economy by 2047, added the chief minister.

CM Patel reviewed the current achievements of the state government in important sectors like PM Gati Shakti, Health, Women's Gaurav Niti, Srianna (Millet), Natural Farming, Digital Agriculture Mission, MSME, Amrit Sarovar, etc.

He said that the state government has focused efforts to train youth in fields of semiconductors, blockchain, and AI.

The CM informed that more than 43 lakh farmers have been trained in natural farming in the state, out of which 9 lakh farmers are practising natural farming in more than 7 lakh acres of land.