conti... Modi's state is ahead of most other states in the matter of employment generation also. Union Minister for Labour Oscar Fernandes told Rajya Sabha on November 23 this year that 99000 persons were given employment in Gujarat through employment exchanges in 2006- - the highest in the country.
All other states are far behind.The Centre's Working Group on 'Poverty Elimination' during 11th Plan too lauded the efforts of Gujarat Government and even recommended these initiatives should be replicated at the national level.
The individual household model of Gujarat takes into account the multi-dimensional nature of poverty. It has used 13 score-based socio-economic parameters for assessing the poverty level of each household. Then, it groups them into poor and very poor, and prioritises the poverty alleviation programmes by putting the poorest at the top.
"Equipped with a systematic computerised ordinal list of the poor identified on the basis of a vector of multi-dimensional indicators of basic deprivations, the Gujarat approach of poverty alleviation programme is oriented towards assistance to individual households," the Working Group has stated in the report
