00:00you talked about uh hospitals the videos that we're seeing on social media of darbanga hospital
00:06uh darbanga medical college and hospital the visuals are pathetic i mean the condition of
00:11hospitals from inside and the health minister will definitely be questioned on that so that's
00:17an exception and nobody can defend that in fact you know the the health minister should have
00:23immediately taken all the remedial and i'm sure the remedial measures have been taken but the very
00:27fact that that you know issue came to the fore shows that a lot more needs to be done see bihar has
00:34had many legacy issues but if you look at pure data from 3300 kilometers of national highway stretch in
00:412004 2005 to 6000 plus kilometers of national highway stretch in bihar now from 350 kilometers of rural
00:50roads in 2005 to 120 000 kilometers of rural roads from five to six hours of average
00:57electricity in 2004 2005 to 20 21 hours of average electricity now in fact if you look at the
01:04poverty rate in 2015 in bihar it was 40 percent now it is four percent which shows that one of
01:10the biggest successes among other states in fighting poverty has been of bihar so all of these augur well
01:16for the future of bihar on the other hand you spoke of infrastructure why do we have crores of rupees of
01:23bridges collapsing every time there is a rain in bihar there are four or five of them which have
01:29collapsed and definitely you know nobody can defend the the flawed construction of those bridges
01:36and uh you know i'm not privy to what the investigation revealed because many of these were staked uh you
01:41know perhaps many of these were were expedited at the time when they just sweep yeah the government
01:48was in power for 18 19 months in between and whenever they come you know get a hang of power
01:53they indulge in unabated corruption but if you look at the overall picture of bihar you know the kind of
01:58connectivity three airports simanchal which you which these people had made the hub of illegal migration
02:04today has a airport right in the heart of purnia a distance which you know people from the border
02:11area of purnia used to cover to delhi in 26 hours that's being covered in two and a half hours by air
02:18that's the level of development and airport in darbanga and all across the state if you you know i would
02:24suggest i would request you travel you know since there are a few days remaining for the elections
02:29journalists who have gone to bihar to cover are mighty impressed with the seamless road connectivity
02:35in just the last six years that's the base of development which bihar has witnessed in the last
02:40few years you touched upon corruption the CAG report which came out recently it flags that there was a
02:46there was an irregularity of 70 000 crore rupees in government departments in bihar how do you respond
02:52well that's that's still uh that i don't have much information about that because you know they're still
02:58being investigated and the CAG reports reveal a lot of things but there are subsequent investigations
03:03don't necessarily corroborate the initial findings so i will wait for the final report
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