<p>Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said the bulk of the Rs.1.25 lakh crore announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as special package for Bihar was a "mere repackaging of old schemes".<br /><br /></p>.<p>"A closer look reveals that against the claim of Rs.1.25 lakh crore, at least Rs.1.08 lakh crore worth projects is nothing but a mere repackaging of old schemes," Nitish Kumar told the media here.<br /><br />He said this included appropriation of pre-approved allocations for old ones and continued contribution to ongoing schemes which were announced by various ministries at different points of time in the past. <br /><br />"Further, few new line items, totalling to the tune of about Rs.6,000 crore, are a part of the package for which there is not even a shred of evidence of planning or work on ground," he added. <br /><br />"Thus, in totality, at very best, the so called Rs.1.25 lakh crore package will not provide anything more than Rs.10,368 crore as additional or incremental resource to the state of Bihar. <br /><br />"This, Rs.10,368 crore, too in the absence of a defined timeline or disbursement modalities, hardly means anything to the state," added the Janata Dal-United leader.<br /><br />Modi announced the Bihar package on August 18 while addressing an election campaign rally at Arrah. <br /><br />Nitish Kumar then vowed to "expose the truth" behind the Bihar package, hinting that several ongoing projects worth thousands of crores of rupees were included in it. <br /><br />But BJP leaders are upbeat after Modi's announcement and hope it would give the National Democratic Alliance an advantage over the grand alliance of the Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in the assembly polls.<br /></p>
<p>Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said the bulk of the Rs.1.25 lakh crore announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as special package for Bihar was a "mere repackaging of old schemes".<br /><br /></p>.<p>"A closer look reveals that against the claim of Rs.1.25 lakh crore, at least Rs.1.08 lakh crore worth projects is nothing but a mere repackaging of old schemes," Nitish Kumar told the media here.<br /><br />He said this included appropriation of pre-approved allocations for old ones and continued contribution to ongoing schemes which were announced by various ministries at different points of time in the past. <br /><br />"Further, few new line items, totalling to the tune of about Rs.6,000 crore, are a part of the package for which there is not even a shred of evidence of planning or work on ground," he added. <br /><br />"Thus, in totality, at very best, the so called Rs.1.25 lakh crore package will not provide anything more than Rs.10,368 crore as additional or incremental resource to the state of Bihar. <br /><br />"This, Rs.10,368 crore, too in the absence of a defined timeline or disbursement modalities, hardly means anything to the state," added the Janata Dal-United leader.<br /><br />Modi announced the Bihar package on August 18 while addressing an election campaign rally at Arrah. <br /><br />Nitish Kumar then vowed to "expose the truth" behind the Bihar package, hinting that several ongoing projects worth thousands of crores of rupees were included in it. <br /><br />But BJP leaders are upbeat after Modi's announcement and hope it would give the National Democratic Alliance an advantage over the grand alliance of the Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in the assembly polls.<br /></p>