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Modi is king of governance, says US Congress report

Washington: A report drawn up by the US Congressional Research
Service has identified Gujarat under chief minister Narendra Modi
as offering perhaps the best example of effective governance and
impressive development in India, and observed that under his watch
the State had become a key driver of national economic growth.
Gujarat is followed by Bihar, whose chief minister Nitish Kumar too
comes in for praise for his governance and administrative
skills.
“Perhaps India’s best example of effective governance and
impressive development is found in Gujarat, where controversial
Chief Minister Narendra Modi has streamlined economic processes,
removing red tape and curtailing corruption in ways that have made
the state a key driver of national economic growth,” the CRS report
noted. (The full report can be accessed here.)
The CRS is an independent and bipartisan wing of the US Congress,
and prepares periodic reports on issues of interest to the US
lawmakers. The 94-page report on India was released by the CRS for
US lawmakers on 1 September.
“Seeking to overcome the taint of his alleged complicity in the
2002 riots, Modi has overseen heavy investment in modern roads and
power infrastructure, and annual growth of more than 11 per cent in
recent years,” the CRS report noted.
Gujarat, the report added, has attracted major international
investors such as General Motors and Mitsubishi. The State, which
has only 5 percent of India’s population, now accounts for more
than one-fifth of India’s exports, it said.
Next in line for high praise was Bihar under Nitish Kumar. “Another
positive example in 2011 has been Bihar, one of India’s poorest
states, where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has won national
attention through his considerable success in emphasising good
governance over caste-based politics.
“He is credited with restoring law and order across much of the
state, as well as overseeing infrastructure and educational
improvements of direct benefit to common citizens projects,” the
report said.
“Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) party, in alliance with the main
national opposition BJP, won an overwhelming reelection majority in
November 2010 state elections,” the report said.
The report claims that the governance examples set in by Chief
Ministers Modi and Kumar may have inspired Uttar Pradesh chief
minister Mayawati.
“Chief Minister Mayawati, who is widely believed to maintain
national political ambitions and was at the forefront of a nascent
“Third Front” in 2009, has shifted her own focus much more toward
infrastructure projects such as road-building and improving the
state’s poor energy grid,” the report said.
The CRS report also addresses the ongoing Telangana movement in
Andhra Pradesh, and the new Trinamool-Congress rule in West Bengal.
It noted that chief minister Mamata Banerjee faces a huge
task in repairing “one of India’s poorest states”.
PTI
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