The money, programme by programme
What each major education programme was allocated, and how much was actually spent — every figure with its source. An early slice; more programmes to come.
How much of the money reached a student?
Of the ₹16,407 crore Bihar’s nodal agencies actually withdrew in 2023–24, how much could auditors verify reached a student? Drag your guess, then reveal.
One year’s money, drawn to scale
FY 2023–24, all 142 Single Nodal Agencies. Tap any segment for the exact figure, its provenance, and the source document.
Tap a segment — the exact figure, its provenance, and the source document.
₹14,738 crore is unimaginable. What it could buy isn’t.
Bihar Student Credit Card loans — a full ₹4-lakh degree loan for 3.68 lakh students, from the parked money alone.
Parked: CAG SFAR 2023–24 · Loan ceiling: 7nishchay portal
The unit: ₹14,738.13 cr parked unspent in SNA accounts on 31 Mar 2024 (CAG SFAR 2023–24, Para 4.19).
Six programmes, one honest scale
Pick a programme to follow its money — year by year, stage by stage. Add a second to compare.
Each bar spans its own budget; the green fill is the share actually spent. · Tap any ₹ figure for its provenance and source document.
Only 16% utilised — no training centres were set up and no skill-gap study was done.
- CAG Performance Audit Report No. 20 of 2025 (PMKVY)₹30.86 cr flagged
Of ₹36.82 cr released to Bihar under PMKVY, only ₹5.96 cr (16%) was utilised by March 2024 — no training centres were set up and no skill-gap study was conducted; 3 of 10 sampled training centres had closed.
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System-wide findings
- CAG SFAR 2023-24, Para 4.19 (SNA fund-flow, all schemes)₹14,738 cr flagged
Across Bihar's Single Nodal Agencies for all centrally-sponsored schemes, the Accountant General received no vouchers of actual expenditure; ₹14,738.13 cr of the funds released lay unspent in SNA bank accounts on 31 March 2024. To the extent of non-submission of Utilisation Certificates, the amount shown as expenditure may not have reached the beneficiaries.
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Bihar figures from CAG audit reports; “spent” is what the accounts record. Where end-use below the agency isn’t published, we file an RTI rather than show a guess.