Patna, June 10 -- The Bihar government has decided to provide benefits of PM Awas scheme to nine categories of ST in the state.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of the Cabinet Secretariat Department, S. Siddharth told news persons here on Tuesday that the cabinet approved a related proposal in the meeting held here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Siddharth said that, like the Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyay Maha Abhiyan (PM-Janman), people of nine groups of the Scheduled Tribe community of the state will be given the benefit of PM Awas Yojana. He said that these communities will be given two lakh rupees for housing in four equal installments.
The beneficiary communities are Asur, Birhor, Birjiya, Hilkhariya, Ko...