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Nitish on payback mode as govt rolls out scheme after scheme

Hindustan Times Patna

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June 27, 2025

With speculations about Nitish Kumar gearing up for his 9th term as Bihar chief minister, he seems to be on a payback drive for his people and in its wake snatching the development agenda from Opposition's clutches.

- Arun Kumar

PATNA: Almost daily announcements about some scheme or project reflect that not only his government is ensuring that the people get a taste of fulfillment of promises.

Be it almost three-time increase in old-age pension to benefit around 1.10-crore people, doubling the monthly emoluments to nearly 1.4-lakh of Jeevika self-help group woman workers, large-scale recruitment in several departments, subsidised loans and implementation of schemes and programmes worth ₹50,000-crore announced during his Pragati Yatra, Kumar's government is on an overdrive ahead of the state election scheduled in October-November.

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