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BIHAR Bihar finance minister seeks central funds for its sponsored schemes State finance minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary asked the BJP MLCs to help the state in getting funds for the centrally-sponsored schemes. Choudhary told the Upper House that for such schemes, the Union government has given them only 36% of its total budgetary allotments in … Read more
BIHAR Groundwater in 30,000 wards polluted in Bihar: PHED report A latest report of the public health and engineering department (PHED) has found groundwater polluted in 30,207 village wards across the state. However, the government has installed water purification equipment in those areas and is now supplying purified water to the villagers to save them … Read more
BIHAR Bihar CM Nitish Kumar rules out free power, says smart pre-paid meters by 2025 CM Nitish Kumar said in the state assembly that the ongoing project of installing smart pre-paid meters for power consumers in the state would be completed by 2025. At the same time, he ruled out giving free electricity to any category … Read more
BIHAR Number of obese kids on rise in Bihar: Survey Junk foods and change in life-style have led to an increase in the number of obese children across the globe. Even in Bihar, the percentage of obese children has almost doubled. As per the data of national family health survey (NFHS-4), only 1.2% of children … Read more
BIHAR Bihar records 10.9% growth rate, third highest in country Bihar recorded the third highest growth rate of 10.98% at constant price (2011-12) in its gross state domestic product (GSDP) during the 2021-22 FY among all the states in the country. It has marked the return of the state’s economy to the ‘pre-Covid-19 years’, … Read more
BIHAR Bihar government’s focus on good governance, says Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar said that the government has been pursuing crime control and law and order management with utmost diligence, besides paying attention to constructing police buildings and establishing forensic science laboratory in all the police zones on a priority basis to strengthen the … Read more
BIHAR Varsities in Bihar to introduce disaster management courses All the universities in Bihar will introduce courses in disaster management from the next academic session (2023-24). This was announced by the education department’s additional chief secretary Dipak Kumar Singh at a meeting convened by the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA) in collaboration with the National … Read more
BIHAR Bihar govt cancels 39.36 lakh MGNREGA job cards The rural development ministry of the state government has cancelled 39.36 lakh MGNREGA job cards of inactive labourers in the state. The affected labourers had not worked a single day in the last three years and were still earning money through this scheme. According to an … Read more
BIHAR 1.85 lakh Dial 112 for emergency help in 8 months in Bihar The emergency response support system (ERSS), which runs the Dial 112 service of Bihar Police, has so far provided assistance to 1.85 lakh people under different categories in the last eight months. According to the data provided by the Bihar police, about 55,000 … Read more
BIHAR Kala-azar ‘eliminated’ from all blocks of Bihar While Bihar has over 67% of kala-azar cases in the country, but all the blocks of state achieved the target of its elimination in 2022, for the first time ever. However, in order to be declared kala-azar free, the state has to maintain this target for three consecutive years. Bill & … Read more
