Bihar deputy chief minister and state finance minister Tar Kishore Prasad
Deputy chief minister and state finance minister Tar Kishore Prasad presents Bihar Budget 2021. Here are the highlights: Call centres to be established to ensure door-step treatment for animals. Mobile apps will also be launched to ensure the same. All villages to have solar street lights. Rs 250 crores allocated to build links roads in rural areas. Budget allocates Rs 90 crore for old-age homes. Govt to give Rs 25,000 to unmarried women on passing intermediate exams and Rs 50,000 after they have completed their bachelor s exam. Govt has approved 1,15, 116 applications for students credit card scheme.
In Bihar Budget 2021, the state government laid out that it will award Rs 25,000 to unmarried women who pass intermediate exams. It will also award Rs 50,000 to unmarried women once they complete their bachelor s degree
Read more about Massive uproar by opposition parties in Bihar Assembly on Budget day on Business Standard. Legislators of opposition parties staged a massive protest on the Budget day in the Bihar Assembly on Monday
Bandh worry on day of school reopening Parents are anxious that in-person classes might be hampered if the strike disrupts transport
Thousands of students who are set to return to school after almost a year went to sleep with uncertainty as Left parties have called a 12-hour bandh on Friday.
The state government has allowed schools, which have been shut since March last year as a precaution against Covid, to reopen for Classes IX to XII from February 12.
Parents are anxious that going to school on Day 1 after resumption of in-person classes might be hampered if the bandh disrupts transport.