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Bihar’s mirage of growth: The state that runs fast but stands still
The Bihar Economic Survey 2024–25 notes that the state’s growth 'remains sensitive to external shocks', from floods to remittance declines to global slowdowns.
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R Suryamurthy - Wed, 29, Oct 2025
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Bihar Districts Map / Wikimedia commons
No matter who forms the next government in Bihar — Nitish Kumar’s coalition, the RJD-Congress alliance, or a fractured new front — the truth waiting in the Chief Minister’s chair will be brutal: Bihar’s growth story hides as much as it reveals.
Behind the numbers that politicians flaunt — double-digit GDP growth, record highway construction, a trillion-dollar dream — lies a state still battling the fundamentals of poverty, joblessness, and underdevelopment. Bihar may have shed its “Bimaru” tag in charts, but not in lived reality.
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