Nitish Kumar offers to make available 1,000 acres land in Bihar if Centre takes initiatives to set up new industries

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday offered to make available 1,000 acres of land in Bihar, if the Centre takes an initiative to help the state in setting up new industries in certain preferred sectors.
While presenting the state’s viewpoint on the steps taken to prevent Covid-19 during the video-conferencing with PM Narendra Modi, the CM said Bihar has tremendous scope in setting up new industries in sectors like food processing, garments making, textiles, leather goods, medical and electrical equipment.
“Also, there is a need for taking some initiatives in Bihar under Make-in-India, and for that the Centre can think over giving certain relaxations in the GST and income tax,” the CM told the PM.
Nitish further urged the Centre to give its approval for creation of an additional 6 (six) crore man-days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to provide employment opportunities to the migrant people who returned Bihar after the lockdown and now want to stay and work in the home state.
He also urged the PM to increase the upper limit of employment guarantee to 200 days in a year from the existing 100 days per year under the MGNREGS.
The CM said a survey conducted in Bihar has revealed that a total 32.88 lakh people are homeless in the state. He urged the Centre to give its sanction for providing housing facilities to all these people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana –Grameen on a priority basis. CM also urged the PM to provide additional funds to Bihar under the PMAY-G for constructing houses for these homeless people.
At the beginning of the video-conferencing, all the participants stood up and kept silent for two minutes to pay tributes and respect to all those Jawans of Indian Army who laid their supreme sacrifice in Galvan valley on the Indo-China border.
“The country is united under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi. We will unitedly give a reply to all such forces which will make any attempt to create problems with our country,” Nitish said in his address.