The Barauni oil refinery of Bihar, which came up with Soviet assistance, is in which district?

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.

Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.

A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.

Article 267(2) allows the legislature of a state to establish a Contingency Fund of the State by law, placed at the disposal of the Governor, from which advances can be made for unforeseen expenditure pending authorisation by the legislature, the amount being recouped later through a supplementary demand.

The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, and with the Chhotanagpur plateau Bihar lost its coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite and mica, along with the heavy industry at Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi.