Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announces new agriculture university in Bhagalpur

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, during his stop at Nathnagar in Bhagalpur district on Tuesday, announced the government's decision to set up a new agriculture university in Bhagalpur on the pattern of Pusa Agriculture University.

Kumar said the new facility to be built at an estimated cost of Rs. 350 crore would prove to be a vital research center in the state providing the farmers the kind of information that would help increase the production while at the same time raising the quality of the the farm products.

The Chief Minister also declared wiping off loans of the weavers in the state that they had incurred prior to 2007.

"We are determined to revive the handloom industry of Bihar and put the silk mills in Bhagalpur back on the track. Bhagalpur silk clothes are world famous and it is our desire to ensure these factories are spinning at the 100% of their capacity to make them a profitable power house," he said.

Kumar also agreed to get the Bairia-Ajmeri bridge constructed at the request of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shahnawaz Hussain and announced the state's plan to develop a Food Park in Kahalgaon under the Public-Private Partnership arrangement.link