For NITISH "NALANDA is BIHAR and BIHAR is NALANDA "

What Patna edition of The Times reported , It seems for NITISH KUMAR , "BIHAR is NALANDA and NALANDA is BIHAR " . NALANDA always get benefitted in past being closure to CAPITAL above all Its a TOURIST destination so even in past WORLD BANK funded a lot of projects . But the way , Sri Nitish Kumar is promoting NALANDA it seems tomorrow it will have better facility than PATNA and other backward regions in BIHAR will start demanding RESERVATION in DEVELOPMENT VISION and FUNDs . Its an ALARM for BIHAR .

PATNA: The wheel of development is moving fast in the state, and fastest in Nalanda. A private sugar mill, piped water in villages, new power stations, super highways, hospitals, rural electricity, new colleges... you name it and it's all happening in Nalanda, the home district of CM Nitish Kumar. The remaining 37 districts are in the queue, waiting for the state government's largess to befall them. The worst-affected are Supaul, Madhepura, Araria, Saharsa, Madhubani, Purnia and Jamui. For, most of these districts are flood prone and in dire need of development. That Nalanda is special is an open secret in the corridors of power in Patna. "If a new state-wide scheme is to be implemented, it is an unwritten code that it has to be first implemented in Nalanda," a bureaucrat said. In their bid to please the boss, even cabinet ministers end up focussing more on Nalanda. A politician said, "Nalanda is a pampered district. First it was former Union minister George Fernandes who benefited the district and it got, among other things, an ordnance factory project. Now it is the turn of Nitish." In the last two months alone, the state government has okayed development projects worth Rs 700 crore for Nalanda. On the eve of Independence Day, Nitish himself announced projects worth Rs 500 crore, including Rs 257 crore for a rural electricity project and Rs 130 crore for setting up a milk powder processing plant. A few days ago, the cabinet gave its nod to a private enterprise to set up a sugar complex in the district. The complex, to be set up at a cost of Rs 122.4 crore, will produce sugar, alcohol and even about eight megawatt of electricity. The government has also approved the formation of a municipal corporation at Biharsharif.