PATNA: The Union Funds, introduced on Tuesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, made a provision of Rs 11,500 crore for harnessing and using the waters of Kosi—a wildly eccentric and course-shifting river generally known as the “sorrow of Bihar” due to the devastation it causes throughout an unlimited swathe within the northern a part of the state after flowing in from Nepal.
Sanjay Jha, the working president of JD(U) and former water assets minister of Bihar, rightly famous that it was the primary time the issue of floods in Bihar was acknowledged as a nationwide precedence. “That is decisive, and only a starting,” he mentioned.
The state additionally acquired a bounty which looks like good compensation for the brief shrift to its insistence on particular class standing—4 expressways, a two-lane bridge over the Ganga, an influence plant, airports, and medical faculties.
An industrial node in Gaya, sports activities infrastructure, and a promise to assist the state authorities entry funds from multi-lateral establishments have been additionally introduced within the Funds. Aside from this, the event of the Vishnupad temple hall and Mahabodhi temple hall in Gaya, and the event of Rajgir and Nalanda have been additionally talked about.
