Bihar is one of the poorest states in India: About one-third of the population is illiterate, the worst figure in the country, and the average worker makes a bit over $500 a year. It is the most densely populated state in India, yet the second-least urbanized. For decades it has been neglected by the central government, and a longstanding policy of state subsidies for the transportation of minerals, in effect from 1952 to 1993, ensured that the mineral-rich but undeveloped state could not compete with urban centers and trade hubs as the country industrialized.
But lately things have begun to look up for Bihar ...
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India: About one-third of the population is illiterate, the worst figure in the country, and the average worker makes a bit over $500 a year. It is the most densely populated state in India, yet the second-least urbanized. For decades it has been neglected by the central government, and...
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