It looks like Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has managed to get a good basket of bounties in return for avowing his support for the Congress’ Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Apart from hiking the Annual Plan expenditure by almost 30 per cent to Rs.28,000 crore, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has promised to extend the special assistance package to the State during the 12{+t}{+h}Plan period as well.