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Bihar Special Category Status
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This film is made to create awareness amongst people of Bihar that how Bihar will get benefited if it gets an Special Category Status.
This film is made by OCA Productions Pvt. Ltd., to promote the signature campaign of Bihar's Chief Minister Mr. Nitish Kumar to get the Special State Category Status to Bihar.
The special status is in the context of Centre-state finances. A special category state gets preferential treatment in federal assistance and tax breaks. Now, there are 11 Special Category States in India. The seven north-eastern states, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. They are given a higher share of the Union government's resource allocation because of harsh terrain, backwardness and other social problems. All of them also happen to be border states. Bihar wants to be the 12th state to get this status.
The benefits that a state gets under the provision of being a 'special state' are -
Preferential treatment in getting Central funds assistance,
Concession on excise duty, this attracts industries to the state
Significant 30% of the Centre’s gross budget goes to the Special
category states
These states avail themselves of the benefit of debt swapping and
debt relief schemes
In centrally sponsored schemes and external aid special category
states get it in the ratio of 90% grants and 10% loans, while other
states get 30% of their funds as grants.