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Nitish announces to launch mega campaign for special status to Bihar

Nitish announces to launch mega campaign for special status to Bihar

Patna, Nov 26 (UNI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced that mega campaign would be launched soon to exert the pressure on Centre for accepting special status demand to state.
Kumar while addressing a function organised by his party JD(U) here said that there was an urgent need for special status to Bihar which must be accepted by the Centre soon. On the basis of findings of recently held socio economic caste census, state government had decided to launch welfare schemes for poor and deprived, which needed Rs 2.5 lakh Crores, he added.
" Bihar government will spend Rs fifty thousand Crores every year for 5 years to complete the target of providing financial assistance to targeted groups and individuals under the proposed scheme", Chief Minister said adding that target could be achieved in three years, if Bihar was given special status by the Centre. His government had been demanding for a special status to Bihar since long but no result yielded till date , he pointed out.

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