Bihar Cabinet Passes Resolution Demanding Special Status

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday that the state cabinet has passed a resolution urging the Centre to grant special category status to Bihar. The Bihar CM announced the development on social media shortly after the cabinet meeting he chaired in Patna was over.

In a post on social media, Nitish Kumar wrote "The cabinet has passed a resolution (prastaav) requesting the Centre for grant of special category status to Bihar". He also stated that the fresh demand was necessitated by the findings of the caste survey his government carried out in the state.

The JDU leader also said that while the rise in the percentage of population of the deprived castes has led to increase in the quotas for SCs, STs, and OBCs from 50 to 65 per cent, his government also planned to undertake several welfare measures for the benefit of "94 lakh families", which, as per the survey, lived in abject poverty.