Bihar has forever had a minister for industry.

Bihar has forever had a minister for industry.: "“We used to laugh amongst ourselves that we even had something called a Bihar Industry Association (BIA),” says .P. Shah, a former chairman. “It was just a platform for getting together and whiling our time, nothing happened here, nothing was allowed to. Post-Independence, we were among the top industrial states, soon enough we were nothing, there was politics, politics, politics.”"