Addressing the media at his official bungalow here, Modi said it was a challenging task set by the Planning Commission, but “my government will achieve this double digit growth rate through planned development in industrial, agricultural and infrastructure sectors”.

“Gujarat is the only state in the country which has achieved a high growth rate of 10.7 per cent, and the model of development through people’s participation will be expanded on a much wider scale in the next five years,” Modi said.

He claimed that his government would make all efforts to raise the Human Development Index of Gujarat on par with the developed countries during this time period. “My objective to allot the Health and Family Welfare portfolio to Jay Narayan Vyas is to achieve global parameters on this score,” he said.

He added that the government was determined to establish the “global identity of Gujarat” as a prosperous, safe and strong state through the strength and power of 5.5 crore Gujaratis. “The government is dedicated to economic prosperity with human touch and human development, with compassion and concern for the common man unto the last, and we are keen to give a new dimension to socio-economic change to ensure all-round and all inclusive development,” he said.

Thanking the people of Gujarat for giving a “historical mandate” to the BJP, the CM said, “The nation and the world have witnessed the strength of 5.5 crore people of the state, who are craving for nothing but development and growth.”

He added that the wisdom of people to identify those who have an anti-development attitude was also exemplified in their mandate in the elections.

He said the government was committed towards implementing its ambitious multi-crore packages like Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana, Sagar Khedu and Garib Samruddhi schemes in the next five years for socio-economic uplift of the deprived classes of society.