India Special

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As India goes to the polls, Ritula Shah reports from Gujarat in western India, a state that has had double-digit economic growth for more than a decade. Its industrial hub, Ahmedabad, now sports wide avenues lined with modern hotels and large malls. But in a slum a few miles away, little seems to have changed. The poverty is still crushing, and infrastructure still lacking. Kieran Cooke travels to Assam in the remote north-east of India, an area that's almost cut off from the rest of the country by Bangladesh. Assam is well-known for its tea, and Kieran visits colonial-era tea planters' clubs. One is now desolately empty and falling into disrepair, with only a lone caretaker on the premises. The other is booming, but then it's in a town that boasts not just tea, but also one of Assam's other remaining riches: oil. Presenter: Pascale Harter Producer: Arlene Gregorius Photo of children in makeshift school in slum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat: BBC