Kerala

“For our puja flowers, roses and sevanti, a big part of it does actually come from Karnataka. I won't say Bangalore specifically, but Lotus comes from Kerala and all of that stuff. So it's very distributed like Jasmine and everything. They come from different p…”

“There are already states in India, which have already begun to age like Kerala or Himachal shortly.”

“We differentiated Kerala from the rest of the world and we took it from 20 dollars to a 500 dollar destination.”

“And first time in the world, we have established another novel scheme, Campus Industrial Park. Higher education institutions can establish Industry Park. We give industry status.”

“We are not trying to, competing to be a cheapest destination of manufacturing industries, but we are trying to Make Kerala as a innovative and sustainable future-ready economy. Smart economy. That is our plan and perspective.”

“We have established first digital university of the country. First blockchain technology academy of the country. First center of excellence on nutraceuticals. First digital science park.”

“We could establish more than 3.5 lakhs small enterprises within three years. That is empowering women. 31 percentage are women entrepreneurs.”

“If they are working in, ah, United States, other parts, sometime they are called from their mother or father will come, they are not well, then they are not in a good mental position to write the program. If in Kerala they can go home and sitting with their pa…”

“Now, 60 to 70 percentage of the data like C is in Kerala now.”

“One of the founder of Uber, he visited Varkala, and his team stayed for several weeks. From Varkala, that is one of the famous beach of Kerala. From Varkala, they wrote this program of Uber.”

“You can, this festival of Islam, they can use the temple premises also for this Iftar. And at the time of Pangala, one of the big festivals in Tiruvanduram, the Muslim and Christian church are open. For the devotees of the temple.”

“You are free in the state of Kerala. You can eat anything. You can wear anything. Ah, you can, ah, Profess whatever, your religion also. No, no restrictions.”

“Then, now we have establishing first government-owned organ transplantation institutes in the country. We are, ah, our expenditure is around 500 crores. Fully government-owned organ transplantation.”

“But any rule or act is Ah, not practical. Then you can come to us. Not for you. Any special order for you. No. We will change that. That will be applicable to all. Respective of whether they will come to us or not. It will be applicable to all.”

“Kerala is the land of highest number of five star hotels of India. The latest data of tourism ministry that is 91, and financial capital of the country is in the second place, Maharashtra.”

“For industrial corridor, Kuchy, Bangalore Industrial Corridor, we could acquire 1700 acres of land within 10 months.”

“All the way, 23,000 crores already started. Okay. 23,000 crores.”

“For acquiring hundred acres of land, I have to discuss with more than thousand landowners. In other parts of the country, if you want thousand acres of land, you have to discuss only one or two persons.”

“Now IBM has established the first Gen AI Innovation Campus in Kuchy.”

“First time in the world, Kerala is a state which you have recognized internet right is a basic right of the citizen. Not only on paper, we are providing high-speed connectivity, K-Phone. It's a government-owned mechanism for laying optical fiber cable network,…”

“IBM started their campus three, four years back. Their plan to recruit hundred people within a year as a pilot project. But within a year, they could recruit more than 1000 youth from state of Kerala.”

“The four international airports. Fifth is coming. And within this small landscape of the country, the highest number of international airports of India in Kerala”

“Kerala is contributing 20 percentage of the turnover of medical device industries of the country.”

“If you are giving all incentives to a garment industry, 10,000 people are working there. Average salary is 10,000 rupees. That means one 20 crore per annum. If I am giving a big IT company like IBM or ACL or Cognizant or any other companies, 3000 people is wor…”

“If you're taking FTA, the growth rate of FTA in the state of Kerala is hundred percent within a year. And the position of Kerala is jumped to ninth.”

“Actually, we have established the first technopark of the country in 1990 at Tirunathapuram. That is the largest technopark of the country.”

“And also land sealing is there. A person cannot run, ah, more than 15 acres of land. For more than 15 acres of land, you should get an exemption from the consent authority.”

“Earlier our ranking was 28 in ease of doing business, that is business reforms action plan. That is exclusively based on feedback, hundred percentage feedback. Now, Kerala is number one in, ah, business reforms action plan that is ease of doing business.”

“If you, if a child born in the state of Kerala, she or he can live 10 years more than other states. Life expectancy is very high.”

“And the startup ecosystem, I think, affordable startup ecosystem, Kerala is the number one in the South Asia, and the growth rate is larger than the world growth rate of startups.”

“Now we have introduced a novel scheme, private industrial park. 37 private industrial parks already established.”