Bihar Special Package

In a deft move, the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday managed to strike a balance as it announced a liberal allocation for Bihar in the Union Budget without yielding ground on the state's demand for a 'special status/package'.

Urging Opposition and the politicians who are politicizing the 'special status' issue to read the provisions of the NITI Aayog, Union Minister Chirag Paswan preferred a special package than demanding 'special status' for the development for the state

COVID-19 testing is "abysmally low" in Bihar, health infrastructure is in shambles and medical supplies procurement "very slow", RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged on Monday and asked the Nitish Kumar-led government to persuade the Centre to provide a special financial package to fight the pandemic.

The Centre said on Monday that more than half of the road projects sanctioned under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special Bihar package had taken off and work was likely to commence on the remaining ones soon.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek a special package of a whopping Rs 2.75 lakh crore from the Centre for the state's development, Janata Dal United or JDU spokesman K C tyagi said today.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver on the Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package he had promised to the state

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has again raised the demand for granting Bihar a 'special category status and special assistance' for its rapid growth.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Friday all set to remind Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the central government has failed to accord 'special' category status and package to Bihar, an official said.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi blasted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for being "arrogant" enough to reject the special package, BJP president Amit Shah also attacked Mr Kumar on similar line, stating that he had no right to dismiss the package.

The Congress Party today claimed that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led UPA government had provided Rs 2 lakh crore to fund development in Bihar.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore as a betrayal of the people of the state because Modi's mentor RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has disapproved of it.

Letters are flying between Patna and New Delhi over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar -- announced last month ahead of the coming assembly elections in the state.

In the run up to next month's Bihar elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have been exchanging volleys over financial aid packages to the state.

Amid charges flying thick and fast over the Centre's Rs 1.25 lakh crore package to Bihar ahead of Assembly polls, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today once again trashed the central aid as "packaged myth" of old schemes to influence voters.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today joined the war of crores in Bihar, where assembly elections will be held by November this year. He has announced development schemes to be implemented over the next five years that he said would cost the state government Rs 2.70 lakh crore.

In a deft move, the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday managed to strike a balance as it announced a liberal allocation for Bihar in the Union Budget without yielding ground on the state's demand for a 'special status/package'.

Urging Opposition and the politicians who are politicizing the 'special status' issue to read the provisions of the NITI Aayog, Union Minister Chirag Paswan preferred a special package than demanding 'special status' for the development for the state

COVID-19 testing is "abysmally low" in Bihar, health infrastructure is in shambles and medical supplies procurement "very slow", RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged on Monday and asked the Nitish Kumar-led government to persuade the Centre to provide a special financial package to fight the pandemic.

The Centre said on Monday that more than half of the road projects sanctioned under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special Bihar package had taken off and work was likely to commence on the remaining ones soon.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek a special package of a whopping Rs 2.75 lakh crore from the Centre for the state's development, Janata Dal United or JDU spokesman K C tyagi said today.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver on the Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package he had promised to the state

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has again raised the demand for granting Bihar a 'special category status and special assistance' for its rapid growth.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Friday all set to remind Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the central government has failed to accord 'special' category status and package to Bihar, an official said.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi blasted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for being "arrogant" enough to reject the special package, BJP president Amit Shah also attacked Mr Kumar on similar line, stating that he had no right to dismiss the package.

The Congress Party today claimed that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led UPA government had provided Rs 2 lakh crore to fund development in Bihar.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore as a betrayal of the people of the state because Modi's mentor RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has disapproved of it.

Letters are flying between Patna and New Delhi over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar -- announced last month ahead of the coming assembly elections in the state.

In the run up to next month's Bihar elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have been exchanging volleys over financial aid packages to the state.

Amid charges flying thick and fast over the Centre's Rs 1.25 lakh crore package to Bihar ahead of Assembly polls, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today once again trashed the central aid as "packaged myth" of old schemes to influence voters.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today joined the war of crores in Bihar, where assembly elections will be held by November this year. He has announced development schemes to be implemented over the next five years that he said would cost the state government Rs 2.70 lakh crore.