Special Category Status – Call for State

Rising Bihar

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Project Overview• What is the project about?

The Project is about the call for

special status and holistic

development of Bihar.

• Define the goal of this project

The goal of the project is to

make Bihar, the left aside state

into transform among the

developed state of India.

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Current Status• What progress has been made since the previous milestone?

Initiated The demand in a letter to Prime Minister on 9th Dec., 2005

Shri Nitish Kumar writes to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quoting President A.P.J

Kalam “India can only succeed, if Bihar prospers.”

o Which tasks have been completed?

o Still the demand for Special status has not been fulfilled by Centre – 7 years

later – Call people for support at Ramlila Grounds on 17th March, 2013

o What issues have been resolved?

o On April 2007 PIL filed in Patna High Court on Demand for Special

Category Status

o State Govt. and Central Govt. made respondents

o What new issues have risen?

o Center asserts that Bihar does not match the criteria for Special Status –

PIL dismissed

• Is the project currently ahead of schedule, on track, or delayed?

• The project is still on track but delayed due to negligence of center and

pitfall for the poor development of Bihar

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Issues and Resolutions on Special Status for Bihar• Description of the issue

Inadequate support from the Center, Political turmoil, Natural Calamity, Poor

Infrastructure of state compare to others

• How it can be resolved?

As stated by Former CM Shri Nitish Kumar in his letter to PM - “It is our

request that on the line of provision and facilities provided to the North East States

Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh, Bihar should be provided with same economic and

development package.”

• What and how did it impact the project?o Time – With Special status and packages from the center, the development will be

visible with 7 years and state will landmark among other developed states of India

o Cost – Granting Development and Economic Packages from Center

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Growth Timeline With / Without Special Status

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Granting Special Status to the State will be an appropriate step in this direction

• Highlights development deficit of Bihar describing high poverty (43%) compared to national average of (27%), significant deficiency in infrastructure and energy, poor health and education apparatus and low per capita income of Rs. 4088 compared to national average of Rs. 13332/-

• Bihar’s backwardness is pulling down the national figure and jointly the State and the Center should address the issue and come up with immediate solutions

Est. for Year 2006

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Positive note on Special Status Issue

• Planning Commision member

Abhijit Sen talks positively about

Special Category Status

• He stated – “Bihar is an important

state in the discussion for Special

Category Status”

• Economic Survey of India calls for

a REVIEW of the criteria of Special

Category Status

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Signs of Hope (dtd. 28th Feb, 2013)

"The finance minister has now acknowledged in the budget that there

was a case for revisiting the existing criteria so that new parameters

were set for identifying backward states like Bihar extending some

policy support."

• The center in principle has now accepted the view that the definition

of backwardness needed to be redefined for according special

category status to Bihar.

"This is a big victory of the people of Bihar who have waging a

relentless battle for the special category status demand. It is a very

positive development which will eventually pave the way for according

special category status to Bihar."

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