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Budget
2024-2025
Bihar and Bihar
Andhra Pradesh
get justice
Development of
infrastructure, energy,
flood management,
irrigation, industrial
development, and tourism 26,000
will gain momentum Costing Rs
crore the central government has
The central government led by Prime announced in the budget to start
Minister Narendra Modi has done justice expressways for road infrastructure from
to both states by accepting the years-old North Bihar to South Bihar. Under this,
demand of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh in apart from the Patna-Purnia Expressway,
the budget, which the people of Bihar were and Buxar-Bhagalpur Expressway,
waiting for decades while the people of the development of Bodh Gaya, Rajgir,
Andhra Pradesh were waiting for it since the Vaishali and Darbhanga road connectivity
formation of the state. Special provisions projects, a two-lane bridge will also be
have been made in the budget for both constructed on the Ganga river in Buxar.
these states. The announcement made in
the budget will speed up the expressway, An additional allocation will be made
energy requirement, irrigation system, flood available to support capital investments.
protection, tourism development, medical The Bihar government's request for
college, and industrial development in these external assistance from multilateral
two states… development banks will be processed
expeditiously.
21,400
Costing Rs It has also been decided to build an
airport to facilitate the increasing
crore it has been announced in the air travel in Bihar and a new medical
budget for setting up of a new 2,400 MW college and sports infrastructure
power plant at Pirpainti to meet Bihar's to meet the increasing number of
energy needs. students pursuing medical studies.
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