BIHAR- River of Scandal

September 15, 1973 BIHAR River of Scandal N K Singh THE convenor of the special sub-committee of the Bihar Assembly's 53rd estimates committee, Vinayak Prasad Yadav, stated on September 9 that Railway Minister L N Mishra had "misled the Parliament and the country" by claiming that he had never had any interest in the Kosi project. According to the findings of the sub-committee the Mishra family of Balua Bazar in Sahnr- sa, Bihar, from which hail L N Mishra and Bihar's Power and Irrigation Minister, Jagannath Mishra, had over the past few years indulged in "graft, nepotism and misappropriation of enormous funds" in the construction of guide bundhs desiltation and other works.