Although some of you would have surely read this, I am forwarding it for the benefit of those who have missed it, for it is worth a repeat.SURAT RICHEST, AHAMEDABAD 5TH RICHEST >>SURATIS THE RICHEST CITY IN INDIA—not Bangalore nor Chennai—AHMEDABAD IS THE >>5THRICHEST, not Mumbai nor Delhi HOW & WHY? According to the August 8 , 2010 >>report of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, the richest city >>inIndia is now Surat, ahead of Bangalore and Chennai, with an average annual >>household income of Rs 0.45 million (over $11,000 per year). >> >>80 per cent of all diamonds sold in any part of the world are polished in >>Surat 's 10,000 diamond units. >> >>The only non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem diamond bourse (stock >>exchange) areGUJARATIS. >> >>Between 2004-5 and 2008-10 Surat 's middle class doubled in size and its poor >>reduced by a third. >> >>The fifth richest city in India is now Ahmadabad , ahead ofMumbaiand Delhi , >>and miles ahead ofCalcutta. >> >>The percentage of man-days (labour class, manual labour workers etc.) lost in >>Gujarat due tolabour unrest is 0.42 per cent, the lowest in India . Gujaratis >>DO NOT believe in meaningless strikes, hartals etc. >> >>Of Gujarat 's 18,048 villages, 17,940 have electricity.Chief Minister >>Narendra Modi, has been voted as one of the most dynamic, hard working >>political leaders in the Country. You can see why. Amma, Didi, Behnji & >>Manmohan can do well to take a leaf from Modi's book of Excellence. >> >>The world's largest oil refinery is in Jamnagar. Owned by Reliance, it >>already refines 6,60,000 barrels of oil every day and will double that this year. >> >>Thirty per cent of India 's cotton is grown in Gujarat.40 per cent of India >>'s Art-silk is manufactured in Surat. Gujarat thus employs at least 0.7 >>million people. >> >>The world's third largest Denim manufacturer (for your trusty jeans) is >>Ahmedabad'sArvind Mills. >> >>The state of Gujarat's GDP has been growing at 12 per cent a year for the >>last 12 years, as fast asChina's. >> >>India's wealthiest man,Mukesh Ambani of Reliance, is a Gujarati. Forbes says >>he is the world's fifthrichest man, worth $43 billion. >> >>Azim Premjiof Wipro, is also a Gujarati. He is the world's 21st richest man, >>worth $17 billion. >> >>Ten of the 25 richest Indians are Gujaratis. Some of the best & shrewdest >>business communities in India have proud Gujarati Ancestry. >>Parsis, Jains, Memons, Banias, Khojas and Bohras --all speak Gujarati. >> >>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. >> >>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. >> >>Gujaratis account for 16 per cent of all Indian exports and 17 per cent of >>GDP. >> >>A great State and Community indeed....From the Net >> >> > >
