With State Assembly Elections scheduled in October 2020, all eyes are on Bihar and its politics. Adding to the existing list of challenges in the state like education, employment, migration, and recurring floods, is the COVID-19 pandemic and the state's response to it. Among all these issues, it is important to focus on how young people in Bihar feel about their elected leaders and their role in State politics. In collaboration with Twitter, #DemocracyAdda brings voices of youth in Bihar to the centre stage and connects them with their elected representatives to directly raise issues that affect them.
With State Assembly Elections scheduled in October 2020, all eyes are on Bihar and its politics. Adding to the existing list of challenges in the state like education, employment, migration, and recurring floods, is the COVID-19 pandemic and the state's response to it. Among all these issues, it is important to focus on how young people in Bihar feel about their elected leaders and their role in State politics. In collaboration with Twitter, #DemocracyAdda brings voices of youth in Bihar to the centre stage and connects them with their elected representatives to directly raise issues that affect them.
National Spokesperson, Rashtriya Janata Dal
Bihar Spokesperson, Bharatiya Janata Party
National In-charge - social media, Indian Youth Congress
President - Media Cell, Janata Dal (United)
Hindi Editor, Youth Ki Awaaz
Send us questions you'd like to raise on the role of social media in Bihar elections with #DemocracyAddaBihar or send us a selfie video, and we'll take it to your leaders!
Send us questions you'd like to raise on the role of social media in Bihar elections with #DemocracyAddaBihar or send us a selfie video, and we'll take it to your leaders!
With one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and at 61.8 per cent, Bihar also has the lowest literacy rate, with only 7 colleges for every lakh of the population.
Bihar is currently suffering from the lowest testing rates in the country per million of the population. And with only 11 beds per thousand of the population, the pandemic has proved to be a major burden on the already ailing healthcare infrastructure of the state.
With almost 2.3 million returning migrant workers to the state in the past 2 months, including informal sector workers, the administration is struggling to keep a tab on the influx of people.
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