For Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, improvement just isn't a vacation spot however a journey. When he began the journey 16 years in the past, his priorities have been to revive the rule of regulation and pull Bihar out of poverty. He then went on to empower the state’s women and girls by means of schooling and employment. Now, hit by the pandemic, on Nitish’s to-do listing is strengthening the agricultural economic system, enhancing the abilities of the youth and employment era.

The hassle has proven outcomes as Bihar emerges as probably the most improved massive state general this yr. Its efficiency has been above common in 9 out of 12 parameters (see methodology), and it has topped the rankings in inclusive improvement, economic system and schooling.

In keeping with the Bihar Financial Survey 2020-21, the state’s economic system grew at 10.5 per cent. Key to this has been the federal government’s Jeevika mission, aimed on the social and financial empowerment of rural households.

Girls’s empowerment has continued apace, by means of SHGs (self-help teams). At the moment, there are greater than one million SHGs, who've been supplied credit score of Rs 13,400 crore. Certainly, cash has not been a constraint. The Rs 2.18 lakh crore price range this yr was the state’s largest ever.