India’s best cities Awards
Gujarat bags five awards, Vadodara ranked overall best emerging city
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Gandhinagar, Surat and Rajkot also awarded in different categories
New Delhi: Gujarat has been adjudged with five prestigious “India Today- Best City Awards-2013”
in different categories at a function held here. While Vadodara bagged
the award for overall best emerging city, Gandhinagar and Surat ranked
best cities in category of Crime & Safety, Rajkot for Housing &
Transport and Vadodara again for Public Services. All the five awards
were received by Shri I.P. Gautam, Principal Secretary (Urban
Development) of Gujarat Government from Union Minister for Urban
Development Shri Kamal Nath here.
The
cities were ranked on a primary survey of 50 cities and out of these,
17 cities were shortlisted with five from Gujarat state.
Gujarat
has received a number of national and international awards in last
decade for Good Governance. Under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi
as Chief Minister, Gujarat has developed one of the best infrastructures
in the country and created conducive environment for its people to
realize their full potential and excel in their chosen vocation.
Gujarat
has invigorated the development of its cities and urban spaces with
innovative ideas and their speedy implementation for long term, robust
urban growth. In the last decade, the State Government has taken a
series of initiatives dedicated to urban areas that have generated
wonderful results.
Gujarat’s
pioneering initiatives in areas such as water management, disaster
management, health care, education, women empowerment, rural
development, industrial development, investment promotion have been
studied far and wide and several of them have been replicated and
up-scaled in other states of the country.
Recently,
Gujarat was adjudged the best Big State for providing citizen security
and one of the top three Best Big States for their overall performance
at the IBN7 Diamond States Awards.
Shri Bharat Lal, Resident Commissioner also attended India Today award distribution function.
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