ADB to Help Rebuild Ten Cities in Bihar
Patna: May 19, 2007
Ten cities in Bihar including Patna, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Biharsharif, Rajgir, Hajipur, Ara, and Bodh Gaya will be developed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) after the government and the ADB reached a mutual agreement to that effect, senior officials in Patna said on Saturday.
Under the agreement, the government will prepare the first draft of the development plans of these ten cities by the end of this month and a more formal plan would be completed by July 15.
In August, the ADB will make a final decision on the choice of consultants who will embark on changing the faces of Bihar cities and will be closely monitored by an elite group of bureaucrats appointed by the state government.
The ADB will finance all the development plans at a very low interest rate and will also provide technical assistance as required, Urban Development Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey said.
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