Gujarati- Gujarat in India

> > GUJARAT IN THE NEWS
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> > 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 Rs 0.45 million (over
> >  $11,000 per year).
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> > 80 per cent of all diamonds sold anywhere in the world are
> > polished in Surat 's 10,000 diamond units.
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> > The only non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem diamond
> > bourse (stock exchange)  are GUJARATI (Not Gujjus..)
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> > Between 2004-5 and 2007-8 Surat 's middle class doubled
> > in size and its poor reduced by a third.
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> > The fifth richest city in India is now Ahmadabad , ahead of
> > Bombay and Delhi , and miles ahead of Calcutta .
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> > The percentage of man-days lost in Gujarat due to labor
> > unrest is 0.42 per cent, the lowest in India .
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> > Of Gujarat 's 18,048 villages, 17,940 have electricity.
> >  Under Chief Minister Modi, the face of industrial
> > Gujarat is changing.
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> > The world's largest oil refinery is coming up in
> > Jamnagar . Owned by Reliance, it already refines 660,000
> > barrels of oil a day and will double that this year.
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> > 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.
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> > The world's third largest denim manufacturer is
> > Ahmedabad's  Arvind Mills.
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> > 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 Sun Pharma.
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> > The state of Gujarat's GDP has been growing at 12 per
> > cent a year for the last 12 years, as fast as China 's.
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> > India's wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance, is
> > Gujarati.
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> > Forbes says he is the world's fifth richest man, worth
> > $43 billion.
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> > Azim Premji of Wipro, is Gujarati. He is the world's
> > 21st richest man, worth $17 billion.
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> > Ten of the 25 richest Indians are Gujarati.  Some of
> > the best business communities in India -- Parsis, Jains,
> > Memons, Banias, Khojas and Bohras -- speak Gujarati.
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> > The two great leaders of the subcontinent, the Mahatma and
> > the Quaid, were both Gujaratis from trading communities.
> >  One a Bania, the other a Khoja.
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> > 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.
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> > Gujaratis account for 16 per cent of all Indian exports and
> > 17 per cent of GDP.
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> > And I am a Gujarati too...:-)
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> > ....... PROUD TO BE
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> > A GUJARATI (Not a GUJJU ..... as was mentioned in this
> > mail when I got it)...
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> > બૉસ, આ
> > ગુજરાત છે !
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> > અહીં પ્રેમ કેરો સાદ છે
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> > પ્રભુજીનો પ્રસાદ છે
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> > ને પ્રકૃતિનો
> > વરસાદ છે !
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> > બૉસ, આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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> > અહીં નર્મદાનાં નીર છે
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> > માખણ અને પનીર છે
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> > ને ઊજળું તકદીર
> > છે !
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> > યસ, આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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> >  અહીં ગરબા-રાસ છે
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> > વળી જ્ઞાનનો ઉજાસ છે
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> > ને સોનેરી પરભાત
> > છે
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> > અલ્યા, આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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> > અહીં ભોજનમાં ખીર
> > છે
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> > સંસ્કારમાં ખમીર
> > છે
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> > ને પ્રજા શૂરવીર
> > છે !
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> > કેવું આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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> >  અહીં વિકાસની
> > વાત છે
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> > સાધુઓની જમાત છે
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> > ને સઘળી નાત-જાત છે
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> > યાર, આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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> >  અહીં પર્વોનો
> > પ્રાસ છે
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> > તીર્થો
> > તણો પ્રવાસ છે
> >
> > ને શૌર્યનો સહવાસ
> > છે !
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> > દોસ્ત, આ ગુજરાત
> > છે !
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