A day before his government’s Cabinet expansion, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while delivering Independence Day speech on Monday, announced that his government aimed to create 20 lakh jobs — within and outside the government — in the State.
“We’re now together and our concept is that we should at least make it [jobs] to 10 lakh but we’ll arrange jobs and employment on such a scale within the government and outside it that it is to take up to 20 lakh”, announced Mr. Kumar, while looking up at his Deputy in the Cabinet, Tejashwi Yadav, who too was sitting during the flag hoisting ceremony at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan. Mr. Kumar said he (Mr. Yadav) was expected to take Bihar to a new path of development and progress.
