As the first month of the new financial year ended on Thursday, the Nitish Kumar government crossed a major milestone by spending more than Rs 6,000 crore as financial assistance to people facing the heat of a humanitarian crisis spurred by the coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown.
A key element of this expenditure is that as much as 98% of the Bihar government’s total financial assistance of Rs 6048.42 crore — spent in just one month of the current fiscal — has been credited directly to the bank accounts of various groups of beneficiaries. This is enabling people’s access to the money with a freedom to spend it wherever they want.
Though these beneficiaries are from different sections of society, the one big common denominator is their under-privileged status, which would have left them vulnerable to distress had the government not come to their rescue.
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