“The Centre has done injustice to Gujarat by not announcing anything for the development of the state’s technical education. This despite the fact that Gujarat has skilled manpower and has been on the top in human resources development,” Modi said on the sidelines of an inauguration ceremony of a research and development centre and assembly plant at Jyoti CNC Automation Private Ltd in GIDC, Metoda.

He said, at a time when the nation’s growth rate was declining, Gujarat achieved the target of 10.2 per cent growth despite many hurdles put up by the Congress-ruled UPA government.

Companies from Gujarat are becoming “multi-national” and getting global identity in the engineering sector, Modi said, referring to the machines tools hub at Rajkot.

He added that the Union Finance Minister has not announced anything for the growth of this sector, though.

Commenting on the importance of machine tools sector, Jyoti CNC Automation chairman and managing director Parakramsinh Jadeja said, machine tool consump-tion in the country was growing at a very fast rate of 23 per cent.

Jyoti has recently acquired Haron, a French machine tool manufacturing company, one of the major suppliers to Boeing, Airbus and NASA, Jadeja added.

Modi said Gujarat also possessed a 1,600-km-long coast, which would boost the country’s progress.