Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for multiple Central and state government projects worth over Rs 800 crore in Patna, Bihar, on 30 March, 2025. The event saw the presence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai.
Among the major initiatives, the foundation stone was laid for a Rs 83.16 crore project to develop a storage capacity of sixty-two thousand five hundred tonne in a total of twenty-five PACS under the world's largest food storage scheme. Additionally, 133 police buildings for the Home Department, costing Rs 181.14 crore, were initiated. Infrastructure projects included three schemes from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) worth Rs 109.16 crore.
A newly constructed hostel at Deep Narayan Singh Regional Cooperative Management Institute, Patna, costing Rs 27.29 crore, was inaugurated.
Other projects inaugurated included a "Makhana processing cum marketing centre constructed at a cost of Rs 46 lakh under the Integrated Cooperative Development Project" and 11 warehouses worth Rs 2.27 crore. Furthermore, five drinking water supply schemes under the AMRUT-1 project of the Urban Housing and Development Department, valued at Rs 421.41 crore, were also inaugurated.