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Convenient Action

Convenient Action: Gujarat's Response to Challenges of Climate Change is presented here as a policy-oriented web edition. The original English text appears on the left, the reading layer on the right, and the scan remains below for citation and reference.

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Book overview

A policy-oriented volume presenting Gujarat’s climate and development strategy, including energy reform, water management, conservation, and low-carbon governance narratives.

Publication context

Published in 2011 during Modi’s Gujarat chief-minister period, the book frames subnational climate action as compatible with development. Modi was about 60 years old when it appeared.

Short summary

It is best read both as a political text and as a governance manifesto that presents Gujarat as a subnational climate-and-development model.

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Policy goals and outcomes

Estimated scores below are analytical judgments based on the post-publication record of the main themes associated with the book’s climate-governance narrative. They are not official government percentages.

Estimated total delivery across the book’s main goals

68%

Calculated as the simple average of the six goal estimates below: 65%, 85%, 55%, 70%, 80%, and 50%.

Goal / theme	Estimated achievement	Status	Evidence / outcome	If incomplete, likely or official reason
Combine climate action with development	65%	Partly achieved	Gujarat built a reputation for tying climate response to infrastructure, energy, and growth.	Development remained tied to broader industrial and energy expansion.
Improve rural electricity reliability	85%	Largely achieved	Jyotigram became widely cited for stabilizing rural power supply and feeder separation.	Agricultural supply still relied on rationing and scheduling.
Reduce wasteful power use and indirect groundwater stress	55%	Partly achieved	Scheduled farm power and feeder reform improved control and predictability.	Groundwater stress remained structurally linked to irrigation demand.
Strengthen groundwater and water conservation	70%	Substantial in some regions	Large numbers of recharge/check-dam structures were credited with aquifer improvement.	Water stress and irrigation dependence persisted in many areas.
Make Gujarat an early solar / renewable leader	80%	Largely achieved directionally	Gujarat became strongly associated with early solar and renewable expansion.	Renewable growth did not eliminate fossil dependence.
Create a replicable climate-governance model	50%	Mixed	The governance narrative influenced later political and policy storytelling.	Replication depends on state-specific geography, institutions, and finances.