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Even though Bihar has the lowest per capita income in the country at Rs 50,745 against the national average of Rs 1,35,000, in 2020. Patna recorded a per capita of Rs 1,12,280 in 2017–18 . [63] The per capita income of Begusarai district was Rs 45,540 and munger with Rs 37,000 were second and third in per capita income districts of Bihar.
It is a component of the Digital India initiative, intending to make government services available to the general public online and around the clock. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The app was developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with the National e-Governance Division [ 4 ] and launched in November 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra ...
The Bihar government spent nearly ₹5 billion rupees in this work from its contingency fund (Bihar Aakasmikta Nidhi), [10] Apart from government employees, Anganwadi workers and Jeevika Didi also worked to complete the survey till given target of May 2023. [11] A portal was prepared for caste-based enumeration in Bihar.
Almost 58% of Bihar's population was below 25 years age, which is the highest in India. In 2021, Bihar has had an urbanisation rate of 20%. [16] [86] Bihar has an adult literacy rate of 68.15% (78.5% for males and 57.8% for females) in 2020. [85] Population increased to 130,725,310 as per the Bihar caste survey conducted in 2023. [84]
On 19 August, the central government notified 21 Bihar districts, including the capital Patna, as backward areas and unveiled tax rebates for them. [52] On 25 August, the central government released the religious data of the 2011 census. [53] [54] Hindus constituted 82.7% (8.6 crore people) in Bihar, while Muslims constituted 16.9% (1.7 crore ...
Since 1970s, the affirmative action or the reservation criteria is different in Bihar from rest of the India. The central government provides 27% reservation as monolithic entity to the OBC which includes all OBC groups, but Bihar on the basis of Karpoori Formula has segregated the 27% quota with 18% to Extremely Backward Castes and 3% to ...
NSDP per capita at current prices (₹) [4] Rank [a] State/Union territory 2004–05 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
lower middle-income line 3.20 (PPP $ day) 26.2 365m [7] upper middle-income line 5.50 (PPP $ day) 60.1 838m [7] Asian Development Bank (2014) poverty line $ 1.51 per person per day [8] Tendulkar Expert Group (2009) urban poverty line Rs 32 per person per day consumption [9] rural poverty line Rs 26 per person per day consumption [9]