Ashok Gehlot

During his first tenure the state of Rajasthan suffered worst famine of the century. He manage the famine relief works quite efficiently.

Shri Ashok Gehlot's first tenure of Chief Ministership (1-12-1998 to 8-12-2003) was remarkable, among other things, for unprecedented drought management, power generation, infrastructure development, employment generation, industrial and tourism promotion, financial management and good governance. Famine affected people stocked more wheat with them than they could get from their crops. Even the op  ...