PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced a slew of development projects and schemes for youths, women and minorities to bring about economic and social development of the state. In his Independence Day speech, Kumar announced that people belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, backward and extremely backward class can now get contract work of upto Rs 50 lakh in government departments. Besides this, prohibition in the state has not "adversely" affected revenue collection of the state government, the chief minister said. Students belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, extremely backward class and minorities will continue to avail of post-matric scholarships, Kumar said. The chief minister said, he had asked the officials to carry out a thorough probe on the day itself, he came to know about the incident.

Source: Economic Times August 15, 2017 09:11 UTC