Bihar cabinet promises 1 crore jobs in five years in first meeting

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addresses a gathering in Patna. FILE PIC

The newly formed Bihar Cabinet held its first meeting on Tuesday and decided to provide one crore jobs to the state's youth over the next five years.

Addressing reporters after the meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Secretary Pratyay Amrit said widespread employment generation and industrial development were the key focus in the discussion.

"A defence corridor, semiconductor manufacturing park, global capacity centres, mega tech city, and fitness city will be established to make Bihar a ‘tech hub' of eastern India," he said. Under the new-age economy, Bihar will be developed as "a back-end hub and global workplace over the next five years", he said.

"A committee has also been formed to prepare plans for employment-oriented initiatives in the start-up domain to ensure livelihood opportunities for the talented, young entrepreneurs of the state," he said.

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