No special status for Bihar, but special attention
budget, highlighting the coalition compulsions of the NDA government, but not the special status that BJP's allies from the state have been demanding.
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The budget tried to make the allies and people of Bihar happy ahead of assembly elections next year, earmarking ₹58,900 crore for various projects in the state. Chief minister Nitish Kumar termed it a budget for the development of Bihar.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Bihar would get ₹26,000 crore for the development of road infrastructure. The state has national and state highways but no expressways. The budget announced two greenfield expressways: Patna-Purnea and Buxar-Bhagalpur. The expressways will have spurs linking Bodhgaya, Rajgir, Vaishali and Darbhanga.
The state's ruling JDU, an NDA constituent, has for long been demanding a Buddhist Corridor connecting places such as Bodhgaya, Nalanda, Rajgir and Vaishali. Through the expressway project the central government has tried to address the demand. An additional two-lane bridge will also be constructed on the Ganga River in Buxar.
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