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Union Home Minister Amit Shah Unveils Schemes, Projects Worth Over Rs 800 Crore In Bihar

Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated schemes and laid foundation stones for projects worth over Rs 800 crore in Bihar on International Cooperative Day.

Patna, Mar 30 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled schemes and laid the foundation stones for projects, worth over Rs 800 crore, in Bihar on the occasion of International Cooperative Day.

Shah launched schemes, comprising Rs 111 crore from the cooperative department and Rs 421 crore from the urban development and housing department.

He also laid the foundation stones for 133 police buildings, costing Rs 181 crore, and three road transport and national highway projects worth Rs 109 crore.

Shah also remotely inaugurated a makhana processing unit at the Fishermen's Cooperative Society in Darbhanga district.

He distributed micro ATMs to ‘bank mitras' of the Bihar State Cooperative Bank at the state-level conference attended by representatives from primary agriculture cooperatives and other cooperative societies.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, several Union and state ministers and senior officials were present on the occasion.

Shah, who arrived here on Saturday, will address a public rally in Gopalganj district later in the day.

He will also chair a meeting of the NDA leaders at CM’s residence here.

(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)

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