{"id":19,"date":"2013-01-10T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:41:59","slug":"modis-gujarat-growth-model-might-not-work-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Modi&#8217;s Gujarat growth model might not work across India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/modi321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20\" \/><\/a>Turning a single Indian state with a long tradition of entrepreneurship and a solid political majority into an investor-friendly economic powerhouse is one thing.<\/p>\n<p>Replicating that experience across a diverse country of 1.2 billion would be a tougher prospect for Narendra Modi, whose leadership of booming Gujarat has led to his being touted as a potential candidate to become the next prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>While Modi wins praise even from critics for cutting red tape and making government more responsive and predictable, many ingredients for Gujarat&#8217;s run of growth were in place well before he took office in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is like an icing on cake sort of thing. You have a nice cake and Modi has done a lot of good icing,&#8221; said Rakesh Chaudhary, director of Pratibha Group, a textile manufacturer in Palsana on the outskirts of the Gujarat city of Surat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning a single Indian state with a long tradition of entrepreneurship and a solid political&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-slide","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}