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Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel unveiled the Regional Economic Master Plan for Gujarat’s six economical regions astatine the inaugural Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference held successful Mehsana. The plan, a cardinal milestone toward “Viksit Gujarat, Viksit Bharat,” aims to boost determination improvement and grow the State’s system done important nationalist and backstage investments.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Patel said that the inaugural “is a roadmap to execute the extremity of balanced determination improvement crossed each 33 districts and to grow Gujarat’s system from its existent size of $280 cardinal (FY 2023) to implicit $3.5 trillion.” The six determination plans encompass North Gujarat, Kutch, Central Gujarat, Saurashtra, Coastal Saurashtra, and Surat, each recognised for its economical imaginable and strategical importance.
Union Minister for Railways, Information and Broadcasting, Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw was besides present.
Under these plans, much than 500 projects person been identified, supported by investments exceeding ₹15 lakh crore (over US $200 billion). These projects are designed to fortify the state’s industrial, service, tourism, and agrarian ecosystems. The Chief Minister added that “through Gujarat’s determination economical development, the purpose is to realise the imaginativeness of ‘Viksit Gujarat, Viksit Bharat.’”
A cardinal constituent of the maestro program is the instauration of Regional Skilling Centres and Centres of Excellence to equip the younker with future-ready capabilities. These centres volition absorption connected greenish skills, bluish economy, logistics, and artificial quality successful collaboration with industries. The initiatives are expected to make astir 28 cardinal employment opportunities crossed the state.
The State’s attack stressed the improvement of high-value, technology-oriented sectors. In precocious manufacturing, areas specified arsenic electrical vehicles, artillery storage, marine chemicals, biofuels, concern ceramics, and biologics volition beryllium promoted. In services, Gujarat aims to summation the sector’s stock to 51 percent of the authorities system by 2047, fostering maturation segments specified arsenic Global Capability Centres, logistics, merchandise design, and fiscal services.
The tourism assemblage volition spot the improvement of aesculapian worth travel, heritage, eco, cruise, and wellness tourism, portion the bluish system volition beryllium precocious done larboard logistics, shipbuilding, food processing, and maritime innovation on Gujarat’s 2,240 km coastline. The agrarian system volition absorption connected agro-processing, dairy, and agritech, supported by renewable energy, circular system projects, and greenish manufacturing.
Infrastructure improvement forms different cornerstone of the maestro plan. Over the adjacent 22 years, projects volition see coastal railways, high-speed interstate obstruction corridors, sea-link constructions, and airdrome expansions. The authorities authorities besides plans to grow cargo terminals and acold concatenation infrastructure to heighten logistics efficiency.
Chief Minister Patel highlighted the relation of the Gujarat State Institution of Transformation (GRIT), inaugurated successful July 2025, describing it arsenic “a deliberation vessel driving region-specific economical maturation utilizing data-driven argumentation decisions and technological methods.” GRIT volition enactment argumentation improvement aligned with the nationalist imaginativeness of “Viksit Bharat @2047.”
As portion of the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference’s archetypal day, Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel held a one-to-one gathering with ONO Keiichi, Ambassador of Japan. The discussions focused connected strengthening bilateral practice successful semiconductor manufacturing, renewable energy, precocious technologies, and quality assets development. The Chief Minister stated, “Japan has been a spouse successful the Vibrant Gujarat Summit since its inception, and its information successful this Regional Conference has further reinforced the span of bilateral relations.”
The Ambassador of Japan expressed appreciation for the enactment extended to Japanese industries successful Gujarat. He noted Japan’s collaboration done the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) successful launching grooming programs nether the Gujarat Semiconductor Mission. “These programs volition guarantee the availability of a skilled workforce for Gujarat’s semiconductor sector,” helium said.
The Chief Minister added that Japanese companies “are drawn to Gujarat by the semiconductor ecosystem” and confirmed the state’s committedness to facilitate concern enlargement by streamlining onshore allocation procedures. He besides informed that “hospitals, schools, logistics infrastructure, and powerfulness projects successful Dholera volition beryllium completed by June 2026,” enhancing facilities for industries successful the region.
