24 March 2022, Mumbai:
The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal has said that the state of Bihar has huge potential under the One District-One Product (ODOP) programme to contribute to India’s rising exports.
Stating that the State’s GDP is rising rapidly, he said Bihar has made rapid strides in Health and Education sectors.
“You have identified products for exports in each district, be it Bhagalpur silk, pharmaceuticals from Sivan, bamboo products from Samastipur or the ‘Shahi Litchi’ of Muzaffarpur, all of these products are famous worldwide,” said Shri Goyal, addressing the Bihar Utsav celebrations at the Dilli Haat last night to mark the Bihar Diwas, the 110th year of establishment of the State.
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Stating that Bihar is a land of immense opportunities, Shri Goyal said the Cooperative sector should be strengthened and the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) empowered to boost production.
He hoped that with the implementation of the New Education Policy, the youth will be imparted Vocational Training to contribute to the development of the state.
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“In recent times, an entrepreneur from the state, Praveen Chauhan, has extracted natural dyes from the flowers of Bodhgaya temple.
Today, his dyes are being used in fashion textiles even as far as in Japan,” he said. Shri Goyal said the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has gone a step ahead from the ‘Look East policy to ‘Act East policy, which includes Bihar, neighbouring Jharkhand, and West Bengal besides the eight states of the North-Eastern Region.
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