Bihar Assembly seeks special category status to Bihar

Does anyone have the text of the Bihar Assembly's unanimous resolution
demanding special category status to Biahr? It was passed on April 4,
2006.

One must admit that the report/book titled "Special Category Status: A
Case for Bihar" makes a compelling case for special category status to
Bihar.

There is statistical evidence to show that Bihar did not become
backward, it was made backward. There has been a deliberate effort that
in terms of economic and social indicators of development, Bihar remains
below all-India averages in most respects of human development.

Raekha Prasad reporting in May 2006 for
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian> The Guardian from Khagaul, her
father's home town wrote, "The state of Bihar contradicts modern India's
optimistic vision of itself. "Bihar" has become an expletive, a butt of
derogatory jokes made by people in certain metropolitan circles who have
never visited the place. Underlying the ridicule is a potent fear in the
minds of many Indians that Bihar is a template of what this ascendant
economic power could yet become. For India's burgeoning middle classes,
Bihar is a byword for everything they most fear: feudal and caste
cruelty, criminalised politics and grinding poverty." Backwardness of
the state is at the root of the crisis that has been underlined.

While special category status to Bihar merits attention, does anyone
know about the fate of the Bihar's Common School System Commission that
had submitted its 313-page report in June 2007 calling "for a
legislation underpinning the Common School System." If this is done
Bihar can show the right path especially with regard to education to the
whole country. Has Bihar Government has acted on its recommendation?






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