August 2019

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 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 Children below five years to be enrolled in Anganwadi centres   The state government has decided that Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) affected families, who could not avail benefits of Pradhanmantri Gramin Awaas Yojana, will be covered by the state-run Mukhyamantri Awaas Yojana. The government has also decided to recognise the dilapidated houses built under … 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: Centre approves Rs 4,900-crore project to link Kosi, Mechi rivers   The Centre has approved a project worth Rs 4,900-crore Kosi-Mechi river interlining project, providing a major lease of life to Bihar’s Seemanchal region. The ambitious Kosi-Mechi project, which is the country’s second major river interlinking project after Ken-Betwa of Madhya Pradesh, secured the … Read more

BIHAR   Ex-Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra passes away   Former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra, the last Congress leader to preside over the state, died following cardiac arrest, his family said. He was 82.   Once a powerful figure for the Congress in Bihar politics, Mishra first became Chief Minister in 1975 and then returned … Read more

BIHAR Bihar to be first state to form all-party forum to monitor environment, water conservation issues Bihar will be the first state in the country to constitute an all-party body to monitor issues related to environment protection, water conservation and climate change.   The state government would soon form an all-party body to monitor the proposed … Read more

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 ·         Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Abhiyan’s work plan to be launched in Bihar on October 2 ð   Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar  said that the work-plan of his government’s much-publicized ‘Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Abhiyan’ would now be implemented from October 2 on birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. ð  He also announced the launch of “Unnayan Bihar” programme, aimed to provide education through … 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