Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
on Monday dedicated the 'Business Reformer Award' conferred on him
by the 'Economic Times' in Mumbai to the people of Bihar.
"Its not my personal achievement...The credit goes to
the people of Bihar, my cabinet colleagues, the bureaucracy
and all those who contributed in the forward march of the
state," Kumar told reporters after holding his 'Janata
darbar'.
Reminding Bihar had registered a negative 5.5 per cent
growth rate during 2003-04 with the plan outlay a meagre Rs
2,500 crore, Kumar said "today we have managed to increase the
plan outlay to Rs 16,000 crore by judicious investments and
taking up infrastructure development work."
Recalling the moment of his getting the honour at
yesterday's function, Kumar said "after receiving the award
from Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, I used the
platform to invite the corporate honchos to invest in Bihar in
a big way as there cannot be inclusive growth of the country
unless the state catches with the rest."
I assured the top industrialists of total security and
told them that their investments will be safe as the government
has taken a number of policy decisions to provide tax
concessions and other benefits to possible investors.
Kumar charged the Centre of not giving clearance to
produce ethanol for sugar cane juice and not providing coal
linkages to the thermal power thereby blocking investments
worth over rupees several thousand crores.
PTI
First Published: Monday, January 11, 2010, 20:50