Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were founded in 2000 as off-cuts from two of India's poorest states.
Jharkhand is rich in minerals and forest resources, but its people are among the poorest in India.
Jharkhand has just a quarter of Bihar's population but, according to Mr Gupta, generates more than 60% of its revenue.
The Bihar legislature in April passed a bill to turn 18 mineral-rich southern districts into the separate state of Jharkhand.
"We are sending security forces to rescue the passengers, " Sarvendu Tathagat, a local government official in Jharkhand, told Reuters news agency.
Rains are also forecast over the eastern parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, northern states of Punjab and Haryana as well as over central India.
Funds have been raised to run the Mumbai programme for two years and Mr Gastler visits the city from Jharkhand every couple of months.
Another project in Jharkhand, close to Bangladesh, is also in limbo.
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In March 2006 they seized a train in Latehar, also in Jharkhand, taking more than 40 passengers hostage - but freed them 12 hours later.
Bhagwati Prasad, the chief justice of Jharkhand state until retiring from the bench in 2011, said that judges, like anyone, are influenced by their social conditioning.
Kusum, 14, another girl from Jharkhand says she used to "live carelessly with torn and dirty clothes" but now she has learned how to stay clean.
Manas said he was "not sure" who had carried out the attack on shepherds in Jharkhand since there were a number of splinter rebel groups in the state.
Now that may be in danger too as the committee found that of 14 mines from the nearby state of Jharkhand where Vedanta had been sourcing its bauxite from, only one had all the mandatory approvals and legal clearances.
Another report, by the militant Jharkhand Organization Against Radiation (JOAR), says 47% of village women have complained of disrupted menstrual cycles, and 18% say they have suffered either miscarriages or given birth to stillborn babies in the past five years.
An initial report by the Press Trust of India which was later corrected, cited the main reason for the investigation to be the link between the developer and associates of Madhu Koda, former chief minister of the state of Jharkhand, who was arrested Dec. 1 on corruption charges.
Samasource takes work orders from a U.S. tech company, breaks them down into simple tasks it has dubbed microwork, and sends it off to a partner in say, the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, where most of the other jobs are low-paid, backbreaking work in the coal mines.
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