Council Of Minister : Government

Name	:	Shri Saurabhbhai Patel (Dalal)
Date of Birth	:	28-08-1958
Educational Qualifications	:	B.com, M.B.A(U.S.A)
Office Address	:	Block No:2/3, New Sachivalay Gandhinagar (Gujarat) Tel No: 23250214 / 23220294 / 23220655
Permanent Address	:	"Nandan Bungalow " Behind Bank of India Panchavati, Elishbridge Ahmedabad-380006

Profession	:	Business (Plast ic & Chemicals)
Field of Interest	:	Contribution in Political, Social, Commercial and Administrative Institutes
Parliamentary Career	:	Member, Tenth Legislative Assembly (1998-2002). Member of various committees of Legislative Assembly (1998-2002) Chairman, Administrative Committee(1999-2002) Chairman, Sardar Patel Sahbhagi Jalsanchay Yojna Amlikaran Committee. (1999-2002) Member, Eleventh Legislative Assembly. (2002 to Dec 2007) Member, Twelve Legislative Assembly.(Jan 2008 to continued)
Previously Performed Responsibilities	:	Chairman, GEB Engineers’ Association (2000-02) Vice President, Akhil Vidhyut Kamdar Sangh (2000-02) Member, Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission Advisory Committee (1999-2002)

Under the dynamic leadership of Hon’ble Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel, Energy and Petrochemicals, Finance and Planning, depts. have shown a splendid performance. The stories of achievements in each depts. are as under.

ENERGY AND PETROCHEMICALS DEPARTMENT :

JYOTI GRAM YOJANA: A scheme of the Government of Gujarat, which provides 24 hours continuous three phase quality power to the 18065 villages and 9702 petaparas of Gujarat.
Erstwhile GEB successfully restructured into seven companies resulting in earning surplus of Rs. 202 Crores in the year 2005-06, against the loss of Rs. 2543 Crores in the year 2000-01.
Gujarat will be emerging as the Energy Hub of the nation on completion of power projects, which are on the implementation stage. Installed capacity will be 38357 MW.
Gujarat has now become a petro capital of India having highest growth and utmost development in this sector.
GSPC being the only State Government undertaking company in the country which is engaged in the exploration and production activities in the Hydro Carbon sector. It has also successfully bided for blockes in Australia, Egypt and Yemen.
The GSPC has discovered the largest reserves of natural gas at K.G. Basin.
Gujarat is pioneer in promoting CNG act.
Gujarat is the first state to undertake the city gas distribution projects on a massive scale covering big cities as well as small cities.
To meet the increasing need of Human Resources in oil and gas sector, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University of International standards have been established near Gandhinagar.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT :

Successfully implementation of VAT act.
States gross domestic product is increasing gradually. In the year 2000-01 gross domestic products was Rs. 127191 Crores which increased up to Rs, 2,16,651 Crores in 2005-06.
State’s non-development oriented expenditure is restricted and compare to past year reduction is noticed. Such expenditure during 2002-03 was 26479.88 Crores, which will decrease up to Rs. 17144.65 Crores in 2007-08.
The State Government has already enacted the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which lays down various fiscal targets to be achieved in the next four years. The state Government is committed to achieve these targets.
State development expenditure is constantly increasing, during 2002-03 development expenditure was Rs. 15688.49 Crores, which will increase to Rs. 25508.75 Crores in 2007-08.

PLANNING DEPARTMENT :

The state economy has become strong, progressive, dynamic and a source of sustenance for the common man.

State’s Annual Plan for the year 2003-04 was Rs. 6740 Crores, which increased upto Rs. 12503 in the year 2006-07 and Rs. 16000 in the year 2007-08.
Looking to the year wise plan outlay and expenditure for the previous years Gujarat has achieved more than 100% of Tenth Five Year Plan outlay target.
Gujarat has planned our outlay of Rs. 1,00,000 Crores for the Eleventh Plan.
Gujarat stood first in 20 point programme in the last five years.

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