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Bihar’s demand for Special Category Status
November 29 , 2023
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- The state Cabinet passed a resolution seeking the grant of special category status (SCS) to Bihar.
- The demand comes in the backdrop of the findings from the “Bihar Caste-based Survey, 2022”.
- It revealed that nearly one-third of Bihar’s population continues to live in poverty.
- Special category status is a classification granted by the Centre to assist the development of States that face geographical or socio-economic disadvantages.
- The SCS was introduced in 1969 on the recommendation of the fifth Finance Commission (FC).
- Five factors such as
- Hilly and difficult terrain
- Low population density and/or sizeable share of tribal population
- Strategic location along international borders
- Economic and infrastructural backwardness and
- Non-viable nature of state finances, are considered before granting SCS.
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