Bihar takes up economic, admin reforms: Dy CM

Hyderabad, Sept 10: In its effort to give a boost to the economy and change the "negative image of Bihar," JD(U)-BJP coalition government has cleared 125 proposals for setting up new industries and is all set to take up reforms in a big way, Deputy Chief Minister Sushilkumar Modi said here today. "We have cleared Rs 11,000 crore worth of projects mainly in the agro-based industry, sugar, power and infrastructure development and Bihar is on the move," Modi told reporters.Claiming that the "days of Lalu's Bihar have gone," he said, Nitish Kumar-led coalition government was committed to put the state on the development frontBihar has taken up land reforms, agriculture reforms, administrative reforms and common school reforms which would yield results in the coming days, he said adding the state which has a power generation of just 30 mw would hike its capacity to 600 mw in the coming days

."We have tied-up with NTPC while private investment is expected to roll in from Reliance and Tatas,"

he said adding aquaculture would be taken up in a big way where a batch of 1,000 farmers would visit for a ten-day course to Andhra Pradesh to learn the techniques of farming.On education front, Modi said the state would have a new national law college and a branch of the famous Birla Institute of Technological Sciences (BITS), Pilani in Rajasthan.Modi was here to take part in the National Fisheries Development Board meeting convened by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.