To empower the crores of youth of Bihar and make them self-sufficient, five ambitious schemes would be launched: Self-help allowance for all between the ages of 20 and 25 to the tune of Rs. 1000 per month which they can avail twice, for a period of 9 months.

State to be guarantor for student loans upto Rs. 4 lakh that would be made available to all students who have passed class 12 by way of Student Credit Cards and would also support them through 3% interest subvention. For entrepreneurs, Rs. 500 crores venture capital fund would be established to promote self-employment and entrepreneurship. All colleges and universities would be given wi-fi and internet service. Each district would witness a hi-tech employment exchange where 1.5 crore youth would also be trained in languages, communication skills and computer literacy.

To further the objective of women empowerment and to make them more self-reliant, 35 per cent of all state government jobs would be reserved for women.

Bihar has witnessed tremendous improvement in the situation of electricity. Taking this forward, the remainder of the villages and habitations would be electrified in the coming two years. Pushing the envelope further, in the next phase, the state government with its own resources would ensure that electricity connection is secured for each household. With availability of abundant electricity, the government would also realize its ambition of providing 24 hour electricity to every home.

To ensure clean drinking water for every citizen of Bihar, piped water would be made available to all homes. This scheme, in the next five years seeks to completely remove people’s reliance on hand pumps and other sources of drinking water and touch about 1.95 lakh households.

Taking the work accomplished by rural roadworks to the next level, state government aims to expand the network of pucca roads into the villages and ensure that all weather roads reach each and every doorstep. This would also be accompanied by constructing pakka drainage networks in each habitation.

To make Bihar healthy, hygienic and free from open-defecation, each household would be equipped with a toilet. Almost 1.72 lakh crores toilets would be constructed under this scheme.

To expand the opportunities for technical and higher education in the state itself for the youth, the Government would be establishing various new institutions. Five new medical colleges, nursing colleges in all medical universities would be instituted. Each sub-division would get ANM schools and Government Industrial Training Institute. Each district would get at least one GNM School, para-medical institute, polytechnic, womens’ industrial training institute and engineering universities. It is estimated that these interventions, each year, would allow many thousands of additional youth to find opportunities within the state itself.