Surat, fastest growing city in India

Surat and Ahemdabad in Gujarat are the first and third fastest growing city regions in the country in terms of economic prosperity, says a study.

However in terms of actual GDP size, the country's financial capital Mumbai is the biggest of them all.

With an annualised GDP growth rate of 11.5 per cent over the past seven fiscal years, Surat has emerged as the fastest growing city, while Ahemdabad region, which also includes Gandhinagar, is third with 10.1 per cent, as per the data compiled by economic research firm Indicus Analytics.

Southern metropolis Bangalore is the second fastest growing region with 10.3 per cent growth, while rest of the city regions in the country saw a growth rate of less than nine per cent.

The growth rate figures are short-term annualised GDP growth rates for fiscal year 2001-02 to the fiscal year 2006-07. The city regions includes rural and urban areas of the corresponding districts, Indicus Analytics said.

In terms of actual GDP size and contribution to the all India GDP, Mumbai occupies the top position, followed by the national capital region Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai.

According to Indicus Analytics, the current price GDP for the fiscal year 2006-07 stood at Rs 2,00,483 crore for Mumbai region, including suburban Mumbai and Thane, and contributed 6.16 per cent to all-India GDP.

For Delhi, including its nine districts and adjoining Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurgaon, the total region GDP stood at Rs 1,60,739 crore and contributed 4.94 per cent to all-India GDP size.

In GDP size, Mumbai and NCR are followed by Kolkata (Rs 100,229 crore and 3.08 per cent contribution), Chennai (Rs 63,195 crore and 1.94 per cent all-India share) and Bangalore (Rs 58,792 crore with 1.81 per cent share).

In the top 10 city regions in GDP size, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Gujarat accounted for two each, while Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh each had one region.

Pune came at the sixth position, followed by Ahemdabad, Hyderabad, Surat and Bardhman (West Bengal).

In terms of individual GDP growth rate, Surat, Bangalore and Ahmedabad are followed by Mumbai (8.5 per cent), Delhi (8.4 per cent), Hyderabad (7.8 per cent), Pune (7.4 per cent), Bardhman (6.6 per cent), Kolkata (6.3 per cent) and Chennai (6.2 per cent).

According to the data, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata are the only three regions with a GDP size of more than Rs 1,00,000 crore, while Surat, Bangalore and Ahmedabad are the only three to have a growth rate of more than 10 per cent.

Except for Bardhman in West Bengal, all the regions in the top 10 have a share of more than one per cent in the all India GDP.

Meanwhile, Reserve Bank of India [Get Quote] in its quarterly monetary policy review said on Tuesday that GDP growth projection has been retained at 8.5 per cent for the fiscal year 2007-08.

"The projection of overall real GDP growth in 2007-08 is maintained at around 8.5 per cent for policy purposes, assuming no further escalation in international crude prices and barring domestic or external shocks," the central bank said.

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What if Taare Zameen Par was directed by someone else??

• Obvious starcast:
  
  
  
  • Shah Rukh Khan as the arts teacher (duh duh duh!!).
  
  
  • Aryan Khan as the dyslexic child (even if he could not act for nuts).
  
  
  • Rani Mukerjee as the kid’s mom (assuming Kajol is unavailable).
  
  
  • Abhishek Bachchan as the kid’s dad.
  
  
  • Amitabh Bachchan as the school principal (who cares if the role is ultra minute, he can afford it).
  
  
  
  


• It would be shot in New York to appeal to the NRI audience.


• The story line would obviously be different. SRK would fall for the dyslexic kid’s mom. The last scene would have the mom running to the teacher rather than the kid. And again, like in so many other movies, SRK would get someone else’s girl.


• It would have one dance number.


• The film would be titled ‘Kuch Taare Zameen Par.’

If Sanjay Leela Bhansali made Taare

• Obvious starcast:
  
  
  
  • Salman as the teacher.
  
  
  • Rani as the mother.
  
  
  
  


• Of course the whole film would be shot on elaborate sets. The school would be nothing short of Harvard university.


• An orchestra would play every time anyone cried.


• Slow motion, different camera angles for every scene.


• The school uniforms would match the classroom walls even though that does not make a f***ing difference.


• The film would cost 60 crores.

If Farah Khan made Taare

• Obvious starcast:
  
  
  
  • SRK as the teacher (yawn).
  
  
  
  


• In the original Taare, Aamir makes an entry at the interval point. In Farah’s version, SRK would be on screen on for 2.30 hrs out of the 2.45 hrs and would be introduced in the first scene itself.


• The story would be changed to make sure the above happened. The focus of the film would be a teacher who helps a kid fight dyslexia.


• To make it a complete entertainer, there would be a romantic angle, comedy, and action thrown in. Oh idea!! Nikumbh’s character likes another teacher and the kiddo helps him.. throw in some comedy moments there and you have romance and comedy settled. For action.. hmm.. lemme see.. oh yah, the kid gets kidnapped and the teacher fights the baddies to save him. Wow!! I’m quite an imaginative writer. I can see how Farah can write a film from scratch in two weeks straight.


• The film posters would have a big SRK with the tiny image of the kid in the background.

If Rakesh Roshan made Taare

• Obvious starcast:
  
  
  
  • Hrithik Roshan as the teacher.
  
  
  
  


• Since Rakesh Roshan cannot think beyond science fiction these days, this film would have that too. Instead of dyslexia, the kid would have alienositis or something, a condition induced due to him witnessing an alien abduction.


• Instead of Nikumbh being an arts teacher, he would be a physics teacher, and instead of asking kids to be creative, he would ask them to challenge the science we know.


• In the scene where Nikumbh asks the kids to open their minds and make whatever they want outdoors, the kid Ishaan, instead of making a boat, would end up making a working spaceship prototype.


• Nikumbh would cure the kids problem by making a full fledged version of the kid’s prototype, traveling to the alien planet, and asking them to give the kid his powers back.


• The film would have music by Rajesh Roshan ripped off from some world music.


• The film’s name would again start with a K.. probably ‘Kuch Aliens Taaron se Zameen Par’.


• The director would make sure Hrithik gets to show all his abilities. This would mean a scene with Roshan jr flexing his muscles, and a dance competition in the end, instead of an arts competition.

If Priyadarshan made Taare:

• Obvious starcast:
  
  
  
  • Akshay Kumar as the teacher.
  
  
  • Paresh Rawal as the kid’s dad.
  
  
  
  


• It would be a brainless comedy. The kid’s dyslexia would be made fun of. Half the times the parents will be running after the kid from one room to the other and that, in the director’s opinion, would be funny.


• The film will be full of sex jokes. So for example, when Akshay would come to the parents telling them that their son has dyslexia, the ignorant father would say something inappropriate like ‘iss umar mein? par kaise, woh to hamesha boys school mein padha hai!’. And yes, the director would think it is funny.


• In the climax of the film all the characters in the film would run around in the amphitheater for no reason, spilling colors on each other. That’s where the film will end, without any logical conclusion.


• And of course, Paresh Rawal would emote like an epileptic himself making us question the boy’s mental abilities anyway.