Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled schemes and laid the foundation stones for projects, worth over ₹800 crore, in Bihar on the occasion of International Cooperative Day.
Amit Shah launched schemes, comprising ₹111 crore from the cooperative department and ₹421 crore from the urban development and housing department.
He also laid the foundation stones for 133 police buildings, costing ₹181 crore, and three road transport and national highway projects worth ₹109 crore.
He remotely inaugurated a makhana processing unit at the Fishermen’s Cooperative Society in Darbhanga district.
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The Union Home Minister 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.
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.
Amit 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.