# Bihar plans 126-km Ganga corridor at Rs 70,000 crore 2026-08-23T18:27:05+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Sunday announced a plan to build a 126-kilometre Marine Drive along the Ganga, at an estimated cost of Rs 70,000 crore. The project will involve Rs 20,000 crore from the state government and Rs 50,000 crore from private investors. Addressing the closing ceremony of an employment fair in Patna, Choudhary said the existing 21-km Marine Drive in Patna, started by former chief minister Nitish Kumar in 2013, was completed this year at a cost of Rs 6,000 crore. The new stretch will run from Koilwar on the Son River along the Ganga. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Bihar's existing Patna Marine Drive cost Rs 6,000 crore and took 12 years to finish. The new corridor is 11 times longer and more than 11 times costlier, with 71% of funding expected from private players. Infrastructure projects of this scale in Bihar have historically faced land acquisition and cost overruns. The next signal to watch is whether private investment commitments materialise and how the state plans to acquire land along the 126-km stretch. ## Coverage - economictimes.indiatimes.com The article reports the chief minister's announcement without added commentary or framing. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Bihar, Ganga, Nitish Kumar, Patna, Samrat Choudhary Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/bihar-plans-126-km-ganga-corridor-at-rs-70000-crore/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/bihar-plans-126-km-ganga-corridor-at-rs-70000-crore/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/