Bihar optimistic to sustain over 21 per cent GSDP growth rate
Buoyed by the plan panel's pat for registering 21.9 per cent growth rate in the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in Bihar during the 11th five-year plan, the state government today exuded confidence that it will sustain the high growth rate in the 12th plan as well.
"We are confident to sustain and even exceed over 21 per cent growth rate in the GSDP during the 12th five-year plan as we will seek to optimally utilise ever increasing plan size of the state," Deputy Chief Minister Sushil KumarModi, who also hold the finance portfolio, told the Assembly after presenting the second supplementary budget of Rs 3386 crores.
The state's plan expenditure has increased from Rs 22,568 crores in 2005-06 to Rs 78,686 crores in 2012-13 and the entire amount has been successfully put to use for development and economic growth of Bihar by the NDA government under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, he said.
Stating that the core of economic activities like construction, hospitality, communication, agriculture and animal husbandry and banking/financial activities were core to the impressive GDSP growth rate - the highest in the country during the 11th plan - and these same activities will continue to boom in the state and sustained the high growth rate in the years to come, Modi said.
He said that the state government was trying to maximise its tax revenue to meet development programmes and said that it was expecting to generate Rs 16,450 crores from the tax income this fiscal.
The deputy chief minister
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