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Bihar Budget 2024: Focus on Women, Skills, and Infrastructure Growth

Bihar Industries Minister Dilip Jaiswal has previewed key priorities for the state's upcoming budget, emphasizing increased women's participation and empowerment. The budget will focus on large-scale skill development initiatives, including incubation centres and training for youth to foster self-reliance. Significant provisions are also earmarked for improving critical infrastructure, connectivity, and the core sectors of education, health, and electricity. The government aims to boost farmer incomes by separating agriculture from agro-industries and expanding the MSME sector.

Key Points: Bihar Budget to Prioritise Education, Health, and Women Empowerment

  • Focus on women's empowerment
  • Large-scale skill development for youth
  • Infrastructure and connectivity push
  • Prioritising education, health, and electricity
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Bihar Minister Dilip Jaiswal says state's budget will proritise education, health and electricity, focus also on increased women participation

Bihar Minister Dilip Jaiswal outlines budget focus on women's participation, skill development, and infrastructure ahead of the state's financial presentation.

"A unique Budget is going to be presented... Provisions are being made to increase women's participation and their empowerment. - Dilip Jaiswal"

Patna, February 3

Bihar Minister of Industries Dilip Jaiswal on Tuesday said that the state's budget will focus on increasing women participation, infrastructure and connectivity and prioritising education, health and electricity.

Speaking with ANI ahead of the state's budget, Dilip Jaiswal said that the government will focus on opening incubation centres, making provisions for training for the skill development of youth with emphasis to make them self-reliant.

"A unique Budget is going to be presented. The last Budget was around Rs 3,17,000 Crores. I hope that this year's Bihar Budget will be much more than that. Provisions are being made in the Budget to increase women's participation and their empowerment. Besides this, infrastructure and connectivity are important. For any state to develop, it should certainly have infrastructure and connectivity. So, we have emphasised this too in the Budget," Dilip Jaiswal told ANI.

"We are going to have a large-scale skill development... Right after matriculation, after class 10, we are going to bring in provisions for skill development. We are opening incubation centres, making provisions for training for the skill development of youth so that they can be taught how to be self-reliant," he added.

Emphasising on government steps to support farmers, Dilip Jaiswal said that agriculture will not be part of agro-industries. He said that this step is taken to ensure that the farmers get better income for their produce.

"Expansion of MSME and local industry is being done...We are gradually moving towards agro-industries. This is a new target by Bihar, that no Agriculture will be called Agro-Industry. So that farmers get better income for their produce and people get employment. In the sectors of education and electricity, we are going to make several provisions," he said.

"Education and electricity are two important parts. Health is also very important. So, we are going to prioritise education, health and electricity. Bihar is becoming the fastest developing state of the country," he added.

Bihar Finance Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav will present the state's budget today.

- ANI

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Rohit P
Skill development after class 10 is a brilliant idea. So many youth in Bihar just wander after school because they don't have job-ready skills. Incubation centres can create real entrepreneurs. But the key is implementation - we've heard big promises before. Let's see the actual budget allocation.
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Aman W
Prioritising education, health, and electricity is the basic need of any state. Bihar has lagged behind for decades in these sectors. I appreciate the focus on agro-industries to help farmers get better prices. If farmers prosper, the whole state prospers. Jai Bihar!
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Sarah B
As someone who has worked in development in Bihar, I find this budget promising on paper. The emphasis on infrastructure and connectivity is crucial for attracting industries. However, the real challenge is corruption and leakage of funds. I hope there is a strong monitoring mechanism.
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Vikram M
"Bihar is becoming the fastest developing state" - I want to believe this, Minister Jaiswal. But we need to see results on the ground. My village still has 8 hours of power cuts daily and the government school building is crumbling. Budget should first fix these basics.
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Kavya N
The move to separate agriculture from agro-industries to ensure farmers get better income is interesting. Often, middlemen eat up all the profit. If this policy helps the actual kisan, it will be a game-changer. Fingers crossed! 🤞

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