Nitish govt to spend Rs 16,000 crore in next fiscal

Darbhanga, Feb 05: Bihar government would spend Rs 16,000 crore on various development schemes in the next fiscal, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Thursday.

The previous RJD dispensation had spent Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 crore on development schemes, whereas after coming to power in November 2005, it raised the expenditure corpus to Rs 8000 crore in its first financial year, Kumar said adding that the corpus was increased to Rs 9800 crore in 2007-08 and Rs 13,500 crore in the current fiscal.

Emphasising on the need to have quality education, Kumar said the government would be opening degree colleges in every sub-division where none existed.

Kumar today inaugurated and laid foundations stones for various schemes worth Rs 250 crore in Darbhanga district during his Vikas Yatra.

Tthe objective of the Vikas Yatra, he said, was to mark his attendance at people's doorstep and to know their problems so that those could be resolved.

The Chief Minister held Janata Durbar at Kamalpur village under Biraul sub-division and heard their grievances and received applications. Kumar later moved for his next destination at Gaighat in Muzaffarpur district.

Source : Zee News