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NATION | Fostering development in Bihar

Development will gain momentum

n Launch of four new Amrit trains: The road ahead will
This train will run from Rajendra be easier
Nagar Terminal (Patna) to New n The four-lane Ara bypass
Delhi, Bapudham Motihari to Delhi
(Anand Vihar Terminal), Darbhanga on National Highway-319
will connect Ara-Mohania
to Lucknow (Gomti Nagar), and
Malda Town to Lucknow (Gomti National Highway-319
and Patna-Buxar NH-922.
Nagar) via Bhagalpur.
n Doubling of the
n Automatic signalling between the
Samastipur-Bachhwara rail line and Darbhanga-Narkatiaganj
rail line at a cost of
the doubling of the Darbhanga-
Thalwara and Samastipur- about Rs 4,080 crore,
development of
Rambhadrapur rail lines, as well
as the start of the Darbhanga- infrastructure for
maintenance of Vande
Samastipur doubling project, at a
cost of more than Rs 580 crore. Bharat trains in Patliputra,
automatic signalling on
n 4 lanes from Pararia to Mohania on the Bhatni-Chhapra rural
NH-319 costing Rs 820 crore; with rail line (114 km), and
its launch, Ara city got connected to upgradation of the traction
NH-2 (Golden Quadrilateral). system in the Bhatni-

n New Software Technology Parks Chhapra rural section.
of India (STPI) in Darbhanga and
STPI's state-of-the-art incubation
facility in Patna.
n Launch of a series of fisheries
development projects sanctioned
under Pradhan Mantri Matsya
Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).

central government in the last 10 years. He said the country, in which more than 5 lakh farmers in
that in the 10 years after 2014, Rs 9 lakh crore has Motihari alone have received an amount of more
been allocated for development projects in Bihar, than Rs 1,500 crore. PM Modi said that the target is
whereas in the 10 years before this, this figure to create three crore Lakhpati Didis in the country.
was only Rs 2 lakh crore. So far, 1.5 crore women have achieved this feat.
PM Modi said that the central government has More than 20 lakh women have become Lakhpati
made many reforms at the policy level so that the Didis in Bihar alone, and more than 80 thousand
benefits of welfare schemes reach the people at the women in Champaran have reached this position
bottom of the society, which are showing positive by joining self-help groups. PM Modi announced the
results. In the last 11 years, about 3.5 crore women’s release of Rs 400 crore as a community investment
bank accounts were opened in Bihar under the fund with the aim of strengthening women’s power.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana. The benefit of this Not only this, reiterating his vision, ‘Bihar’s progress
is that the money of government schemes is now is necessary for India’s progress,’ he said that Bihar
being transferred directly to their accounts. Under will progress only when its youth move forward.
the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, about Rs 3.5 The Prime Minister mentioned that the Central
lakh crore has been distributed to farmers across Government has recently approved a major scheme

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