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- Budget 2024: FM Sitharaman announces Rs 26,000 crore bonanza for Bihar
TOI Business Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jul 23, 2024, 11:35 IST
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NEW DELHI: The Centre might have refused special category status for Bihar, but has given big highway and road boost in Union Budget 2024. The government proposed Rs 26,000 crore budget for various road projects in Bihar, announced finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
.
Finance minister said the government “will formulate plan Purvodaya for all round development of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.”
“On the Amritsar-Kolkata industrial corridor we will support the development of an industrial nod at Gaya in Bihar.
It will catalyse the development of the easter region. We will also support the development of road connectivity projects- Patna -Purnea expressway, Buxar- Bhagalpur highway, Bodhgaya- Rajgir-Vaishali- Darbhanga and an additional two-lane bridge over river Ganga in Buxar for Rs 26,000 crores,” Sitharaman said while presenting Budget 2024 in the Parliament.
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