Bihar on the Fast Track

If you were to go to Bihar and ask the people aboutresources it has. The simple fact is that Bihar is ridden
Bihar, almost all of them would say that Bihar is beingwith politics that is of the worst kind; the caste politics.
victimized by the central government for not able toThe state once represented excellence in
contribute towards the Indian economy and thereforeadministration is now in ruins.
Bihar has received a step brotherly treatment. Now ifIt is thought that the ruin started allegedly by the
one where to ask someone not from the place theyCongress chief minister of Bihar in the 1980's. The
would reply that Bihar is the Wild West; a place youstate has never looked back in terms of non
don't want to go.development till recently.
Now if the same question is asked to very proudIt is said that current chief minister and government set
Indians, most of them would reply to you irrespectiveagendas for the recovery of Bihar. It is said that roads
they belong to Bihar or not that it is the essence ofare being built on a grand scale, villages are being
India, the core of what India is, the place where Buddhaelectrified and criminals are being hunted down.
the founder of Buddhism lived and preached, the holyPatna, the capital of Bihar has seen development like
place for Both Sikhs, Hindus and Jains alike.never before. Companies and establishments that had
All of these answers are correct. If we were to lookleft before are setting up again, jobs are being created,
why the Central Government has treated Bihar badly?security has been beefed up, people have money to
The reality is that it hasn't, Bihar has received centralspend hence shops from all over India and abroad are
development fund even though it has not contributedeyeing for commercial space. If this continues, Bihar
towards the global economy in the past 10 years as itwould be destined to regain its lost glory as
should have been taking into consideration the naturalcommercial hub of India or at least the eastern India.