Electoral mood in Bihar: Nitish's golden run at the hustings may be about to end

Savita Devi from Burney village, a predominantly Mahadalit basti, with only a few pucca dwellings built through the Indira Gandhi Awaas Yojana, is pleased that her daughter is going to school and “is in class seven all due to the ‘chattra bhatta’ (student scholarship) and the free uniforms that she gets.” Older girls in this village have benefited from the free cycles the Janata Dal (United) state government has distributed for all girls from class eight.

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