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Bihar News: The most striking promise is that every family will have one member in government service. Within 20 days of forming the government, a law will be passed guaranteeing jobs. The recruitment process will begin within 20 months, offering relief to youth struggling with unemployment. This ambitious pledge is meant to address Bihar’s migration crisis where lakhs leave the state each year for work.
If delivered, it could transform family income security, but skeptics argue about feasibility and fiscal impact. The manifesto paints this as not just policy but social justice.
Mahagathbandhan’s plan puts women at the center. The “Mai-Bahin Maan Yojana” promises ₹2,500 monthly assistance for women, alongside education schemes for daughters and housing and income guarantees for mothers. Community Mobilisers, known as Jeevika Didis, will be given government employee status with a monthly salary of ₹30,000 and access to interest-free loans.
Microfinance companies will face stricter regulation to prevent exploitative recovery practices. If fulfilled, these measures could reduce financial dependence and reshape women’s role in Bihar’s rural economy.
A major section of Bihar’s workforce operates on contractual and outsourcing terms with little job security. The manifesto promises to regularize all such employees, giving them permanent status and equal pay. This includes teachers, health workers, and staff in multiple departments who have long protested for recognition.
For education and healthcare, this could stabilize services where staff turnover is high. Critics, however, question if the state budget can sustain a sudden jump in payrolls, even as the coalition insists it is justice long overdue.
The manifesto revives the promise of guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops. It pledges to restart mandis and bring back the APMC Act, ensuring farmers can sell at fair prices. This could reduce distress sales, where farmers often sell below cost due to lack of buyers. For flood and drought-hit regions, MSP assurance could provide stability.
Alongside this, old pension scheme restoration adds to rural security, targeting retired government staff as well. Together, these pledges focus on agriculture as the backbone of Bihar’s economy.
The plan includes free health insurance of ₹25 lakh per citizen and upgraded district hospitals with super-specialty care. Government employees will get facilities on the CGHS model. Education reforms include a women’s college in every subdivision and new degree colleges in blocks without higher education. An “Educational City” across 2,000 acres and five new expressways also feature in the promises. These moves aim to tackle Bihar’s twin crises of weak healthcare and poor education, but execution will test any incoming government.
For backward and marginalized groups, the manifesto proposes a new “Extremely Backward Classes Atrocities Prevention Act.” It also promises scholarships for 200 SC/ST students to study abroad. Social pensions are also set for expansion: ₹1,500 per month for elderly and widows, ₹3,000 for the disabled, with annual increments. Reservation limits will be pushed beyond the current 50% cap by seeking inclusion in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. These steps target long-standing demands for dignity and equality from disadvantaged communities in Bihar.
The Mahagathbandhan calls its manifesto a vision document for a “Nyaypoorn Naya Bihar.” It accuses the NDA of 20 years of failure, migration, and unemployment. Yet, critics, including JDU, mock Tejashwi as being power-hungry. Questions remain: how will the state fund these massive welfare schemes?
Can promises of jobs, pensions, and subsidies survive budget constraints? For voters, the manifesto brings hope of radical change, but whether it’s achievable or merely an election pitch will be tested at the ballot box in 2025.
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