10,000 crores for developing the infrastructure of the North eastern states. It is anybody's guess how the money will be spent. For all his fault the Bihari poor has shown courage and a sense of adventurism in leaving the home turf to find his fortune everywhere. Such sense of adventure is sadly lacking in the North East. There the tribal educated want to stay put and let the government provide the jobs and the money to stop calls for secession.
Old habits die hard.
The state is expected to be the entrepreneur, the creator of jobs. This is not the task of the state, as Margaret Thatcher of Britain so effectively showed during her reign. But India has no Thatchers. The nexus between bureaucrats, politicians and banks has been responsible for widespread corruption. A large number of them are retired officials.