Rs 1,700 crore meant for mid-day meals, health-care not spent in Bihar: Report

Patna,(BiharTimes): 23rd July 2013

Another New Delhi-datelined report by the Times of India published on Tuesday revealed how rotten the mid-day meal, health-care and other centrally-funded schemes are in Bihar. Only on Saturday the daily had in a New Delhi-datelined report highlighted as to how Rs 462.78 crore meant for the mid-day meal was returned unused by the Nitish Kumar government to the Centre early in 2012 after it was kept in fixed deposit in bank for about five years. Curiosuly, the state government tried to earn interest from the amount.

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