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Patna,(BiharTimes): Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui said on Monday that there was a huge decrease in the size of farmland under irrigation resulting in decline in production per hectare to 12.38 quintal at present against 74.5 quintal in 2001-02.
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Taking part in the debate on Bihar Budget he said the farm yield
per hectare has gone down in spite of an increase in funds for the
purpose. The production of sugarcane and sugar in the state has
registered a decline since 2006-07 even though the state government is making a tall claim of reviving the sick sugar industry.
Armed with data Siddiqui tried to expose the state government’s claim of over 10 per cent growth rate and asked that if it was so,
then why the state’s revenue have not increased manifold to enable
it to fund development projects on its own.
In constrast most of the development and welfare schemes in the state were being funded by the Centre and a large chunk of the state Budget came from the central resources.
He dared Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Deputy Chief Minister Sushil
Kumar Modi to deny the facts in this regard. The
state’s own revenues comprised only one-fourth of the Budget volume
of Rs 65,325 crore for 2011-12, he added.
He described the Budget as mere jugglery of accounts and added that the allocation under the state plan of Rs 24,000 crore has provisions
of only 3.45 per cent for agriculture and 1.97 per cent for industry.
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