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Thursday, January 13, 2011

15 Lakh Crores & The Business Channels Don't Find It Newsworthy!

CNBC-TV18, NDTV-Profit and other mediacrooks of business news were busy all of yesterday with mundane statistics. How growth slowed down in November 2010 and blah blah blah! The only newsworthy story they carried was Indigo's plan to buy 180 new aircrafts.There was an event in small time India that was far bigger, had big national and international players and has become some sort of roadmap to progress. Vibrant Gujarat 2011 .

If one were to go by the sound bytes of major business channels or news channels the Vibrant Gujarat event would appear to be some small time village mela for cattle trade. The only channels covering the event were local and some national Gujarati language channels. The major business and news channels only found space for the event on their websites, perhaps grudgingly so. For anything remotely connected to Gujarat or Narendra Modi is anti-India to them.

In the season of scams this would have been something to cheer about. But as is the practice with our media, anything to do with Gujarat is a non-event. In an investment summit such as this, one would have thought that the central Commerce and Finance ministers would be interested as it makes a big difference to the Indian economy. Well, its not a Congress government in Gujarat so that doesn't count for India to them.

So be it!  It is Gujarat though that is having the last laugh. Some minor details are mind boggling:

1. The worth of investment commitments is around 1/3^rd of the national GDP itself.

2.   Over 25000 international and national business, political and diplomatic delegates attended the two-day Vibrant Gujarat event on January 12

3.   2076 MOUs signed worth $333 Bn or 15 lakh crores.

Instead, the media is caught up with the nonsense of Rahul Gandhi's utterances.

Palash Biswas
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