August 2019

Bihar: Economy current affairs GDP The Gross State Domestic Product of Bihar for 2018-19 (at current prices) is estimated to be Rs 5,15,634 crore. This is 11% higher than the revised estimate for 2017-18. Note that the GSDP in 2017-18 is expected to be 26% lower than what was estimated at the budget stage. Total … Read more

BIHAR Bihar animal husbandry department bags SKOCH award   State animal husbandry and fishery resources department has bagged ‘SKOCH Award 2019’ for registering excellence in the sector. The department created support system over the last two years that helped increase the production of milk (19.40%), meat (18.22%), egg (60.06%) and fish (18.47%) in the state. Last year, … Read more

BIHAR New Vehicles can be registered from any district from September 1   Bihar transport department has developed a software for online registration of vehicles, which would allow the new vehicles buyers to register their vehicle from any district irrespective of their residential address from September 1.   Earlier, the vehicles were registered in the … Read more

BIHAR ·         Bihar bans 12 brands of pan masala ð   Bihar state government has banned 12 brands of pan masala containing magnesium carbonate for a period of one year. In the notice issued, it said that the manufacture, storage, distribution, transportation or sale of pan masala containing magnesium carbonate has been banned in Bihar. ð  The move comes after the … Read more

BIHAR   Left-wing extremism sees a decline in Bihar, shows data   The Left-wing extremist (LWE) activities are on the wane in Bihar. Official data revealed that altogether 27 Maoist-related incidents have been reported in the state since January this year.   In 2010, 32 out of 38 districts in the state were LWE affected. Now, the number … Read more

BIHAR Government focus on waste management to boost Bihar’s Swachh ranking   Stung by Bihar’s poor performance in the nationwide cleanliness survey for the past five years, the state urban development and housing department (UDHD) has decided to pull up its socks to improve the state’s ranking in the Swachh Survekshan 2020. To put the state’s performance … Read more

BIHAR 91% of Bihar primary school students have textbooks from government funds   The state education department is conducting surprise inspection in primary schools with focus on the number of students present physically in classrooms and having textbooks.   The step has been taken to ensure that all the primary school students, who had received funds under … Read more

BIHAR ·         Bihar schools have worst student-teacher ratio: HRD   ð   Schools in Bihar have the fewest teachers per student with a pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) of 38, followed by Delhi at 35, while Sikkim has the best student-teacher ratio at four, according to HRD Ministry. ð  The Right to Education Act, 2009 in its schedule has laid down pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) for … Read more

BIHAR In river-rich Bihar, water crisis is a man-made disaster   As per the government’s own admission, of the state’s total 1.99 lakh water bodies, 12,027 water bodies, including ponds, have been encroached upon by a nexus of powerful people. The Bihar government admitted this in 2016 after the Patna High Court asked it to … Read more

BIHAR ·         Bihar tops list in sexual harassment cases at workplace   ð  The maximum number of cases pertaining to sexual harassment of women at workplaces across the country have been reported from Bihar in the 2014-16 period.   ð   The latest data – under the category ‘insult to the modesty of women at office … Read more