Nitish Kumar woos NRIs to invest in Bihar

Patna, Jan 17 : In a bid to attract Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) of Bihar origin, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held talks through video conference with members of the Bihar-Jharkhand Association of North America (BJANA).
Nitish invited BJANA members on Saturday evening to visit Bihar and see for themselves what he said was the development undertaken in the state in the last 15 years. He also promised all possible help on land acquisition and other necessary infrastructure development required for setting up new industrial units in Bihar.
The Chief minister said Bihar had come a long way in infrastructure development in the last 15 years with road connectivity to every village and towns with major cities.
“We have achieved the target to reach from any remote place to Patna in six hours and are now working to reduce the time to just five hours. The conversion of two-laned roads into four-laned and four-laned to six-laned ones are underway at many places. Besides, so many new bridges and roads have either been completed or 80 to 90 per cent complete,” said Nitish Kumar.
“We had targeted to give electricity to every household in villages under the ‘Saat Nischay Part-1’ and we achieved it in October 2018. Now, we are facilitating more than 20-hour power supply to them,” he said.
“The Bihar government has also achieved 90 per cent target of supplying drinking water under the “Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal” programme as well as “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” initiative and both these programmes will be completed under the ‘Saat Nishchay Part- 2’,” the Chief Minister said.