By TCN Staff Reporter,
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed his disappointment over Union Budget 2011-12 for not allocating fund for upcoming Aligarh Muslim University special centre in Kishanganj district of the state.
“It is a matter of disappointment that while the budget allocated Rs. 50 crore each for AMU centre in Murshidabad in West Bengal and Malappuram in Kerala, the Centre at Kishangaj has been totally ignored. It is despite the fact that the state had already allotted required land for the campus,” the CM said reacting on the budget yesterday.
He also slammed Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee for not initiating to accord the special status to Bihar. “Our long-standing demand for according special status to Bihar was not headed by the Union Government. It has ignored the interests of backward states like Bihar instead carried sops only for poll-bound states” he said.
He further added that Bihar had demanded additional assistance of Rs. 4000 crore per annum for five years under the backward regions grant fund to bring the state in mainstream development but this demand was also ignored.
Describing the budget biased against Bihar, he said that NDA MPs from Bihar would strongly oppose the Budget in Parliament and he himself would meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to express his grief.