Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected last year on hopes he would revive a languishing economy.
Investors from across the globe are keen to invest in Gujarat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has high hopes from the VibrantGujarat Summit.
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Eminent free market economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed to run Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Policy Commission, set up to modernise economic strategy after decades of Soviet-style central planning.
Modi is keen to restart big projects which are stuck for various reasons.
Migrants do many of the dirty and dangerous jobs in the region, from construction to the oil industry, transport and services
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to open commercial coal mining to private players is a key step towards bringing order to the country's chaotic power industry and ending the chronic blackouts that impede its economic rise.
Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was informally recommended to the post by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
How far investors will be convinced by Modi's promise to replace red tape with a "red carpet" remains to be seen.
The Obama administration sees India not only as a land of huge potential for expanded business and trade but also as a strategic partner in the face of an increasingly assertive China, whose leader visited Modi in India last week.
China's strong manufacturing base and India's software and scientific skills had massive potential both as a production base and for creating a consumer market.
India will find it difficult to support new global customs rules without "an assurance and visible outcomes" that a permanent solution is being negotiated over its concerns about public food stockholdings, the trade minister said on Friday.
George Osborne and British foreign secretary William Hague are on a two-day visit to India to bolster trade and investment ties with Asia's third-largest economy.
The rupee sank below 60 rupees to the dollar and government bonds had their biggest single-day fall in a month on Monday as higher-than-expected May inflation compounded worries about the impact of violence in Iraq on the price of oil, which India imports.
India's economy is likely to grow at the slowest rate in a decade this year.
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