Senior JD(U) functionary and state Education ministerVijay Kumar Chaudharyon Friday raised a demand for grant ofspecial category status to Biharto rid it of its backwardness.
Inaugurating a two-day national seminar on Raising agricultural productivity and farmers incomes in Bihar, organised byPatliputra School of Economics(PSE) at Aryabhatta Knowledge University here, the minister said despite the fastest annual Growth rate recorded in the country for the last several years, Bihar has been placed at the bottom in the recent report of on the POVERTY-index”>Multidimensional Poverty Index. Incidentally, NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand was also present at the function.
State planning and implementation minister Bijendra Yadav had written to NITI Aayog vice-chairman recently for grant of special status to Bihar.
The education minister said plagued with scanty Resources“>Natural Resources and perennial floods and droughts, Bihar is unable to make desired socio-Economic Development. If the NITI Aayog feels difficulties in meeting the demand for special status to the state, the Centre must allocate its financial assistance to the state in 90:10 ratio to ensure its desired economic growth, he said.