7 resolves: Nitish holds meeting with officials for faster

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Press Trust of India Patna
Last Updated : Feb 10 2016 | 9:28 PM IST
According highest priority to the implementation of his seven pre-election 'resolves', Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today held a meeting with officials of different departments, for the second consecutive day, for their faster execution.
Kumar discussed actionable points in the implementation of the seven resolves with officials and gave them necessary instructions to get into action mode at once, an official statement said here.
The meeting discussed threadbare plan prepared by different departments for implementation of the seven resolves in the next five years, it said.
Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh, Development Commissioner Shishir Sinha, Principal Secretary, Urban Development Amrit Lal Meena, his counterparts in Finance and Building Construction Ravi Mittal and Deepak Kumar respectively among others.
The Chief Minister had yesterday seen a presentation by Bihar Vikas Mission, constituted to implement the resolves.
His election strategist Prashant Kishor was made a member of the mission, headed by the Chief Minister himself.
The seven resolves are - Rs 4 lakh loan credit card for students, a monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 for eight months twice in two years for students to help them search jobs, free WiFi facilities in colleges and universities, setting up of a venture capital of Rs 5,000 crore for young entrepreneurs, toilets in all households, free drinking water and electricity connection to every household.
The seven resolves, which would incur a cost of Rs 2.7 lakh crore on the state exchequer, were announced by Kumar during polls to counter the special package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore of Prime Minister Narendra Modi besides Rs 40,000 crore of previous packages.
Kumar, who is also JD(U) chief, apparently hit at Prime
Minister Narendra Modi saying the election promise (of bringing back black money and providing Rs 15 lakh out of it to every citizens) was not fullfilled and instead declared as "jumla" (euphism).
But, unlike those "hollow" promises his government has effected prohibition and started works on seven resolves of providing electricity, road, toilet, drinking water and sewage among others to every household before completion of one year of grand secular alliance government.
With Agriculture minister Ram Vichar Rai of RJD and Congress minister Madan Mohan Jha with him, Kumar slammed the Centre for permiting trial of GM Mustard and said Bihar would not allow genetically modified mustard in any case.
He also hit out at rival BJP for protesting his "Nishchay yatra" with an aim to find publicity in media.
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First Published: Feb 10 2016 | 9:28 PM IST

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