Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Saturday once again expressed apprehension that the Narendra Modi government in the Centre may cut the budgetary allocations to the state for the year 2015-16 to around Rs 52,000 crore in the backdrop of the projected budget deficit in the current financial (2014-15) year. This is in spite of the fact that Bihar needs special attention for its development.

Speaking at village Sihma in Begusarai district where he laid the foundation stone of an additional primary health centre in the memory of Yogendra Prasad Singh, a social activist, he said the state hadalready been denied of Rs 12,000 crore special financial package as compensation as was promised after the bifurcation of the state in 2000. 

Manjhi said that during his visit to New Delhi last week he had raised the issue before the Union government.The chief minister said his government has launched a special mission to ensure that possession of land as homestead is given to all landless people by March next year.

He said he had asked all the district magistrates to either fully implement the order or face the music.He said he wonders if it was God’s wish that he became the chief minister. Anyway he accepted the opportunity with all humility and keep working for the betterment of the marginalized and the poor people as he himself belongs to that section of the society.

The chief minister alos formally dedicated a street in Begusarai town to late Dr Piyush Gupta, a noted medical practitioner, philanthropist and social activist.Urban development and housing department minister Samrat Choudhary, local BJP MP Bhola Singh and member-secretary of Asian Development Research Institute, Shaibal Gupta, were also present on the occasion. He is the son of late Dr Piyush Gupta, who was originally fromk Begusarai.