June 2018

BIHAR   Chhattisgarh eyes Bihar model for booze ban   Taking a leaf out of Bihar’s stringent prohibition law, Chhattisgarh government too wants to implement total prohibition.   Enforcing prohibition was a very difficult task in Bihar as certain educated people and different lobbies were dead against the state government’s move. The critics took alibi of … Read more

BIHAR State seeks Rs 1,100 crore from Centre for power connections   The state energy department is to submit within a week a detailed project report to the Centre to seek Rs1100 crore for providing household electricity connections under Saubhagya scheme that envisages payment of power installation charges to every household in 60:40 ratio by the Centre … Read more

BIHAR NW-1 will fail unless siltation issue is addressed: Nitish Kumar Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said the Centre’s ambitious National Waterway 1 project will not succeed unless the issue of siltation is addressed to ensure free and adequate flow of water. National Waterway 1 (NW-1) is the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of the waterway on … Read more

BIHAR   Railway projects hanging fire in state   The railways’ ambitious move to execute the pending projects on a cost-sharing basis with the states is yet to bear desired results in many states, including Bihar where certain projects are hanging fire because of resource crunch. According to a Railway Board official, Jharkhand and Karnataka have positively responded to the railways’ … Read more

BIHAR Bihar’s Shahi Litchi may soon have GI tag   The famed Shahi litchi, grown extensively in many north Bihar districts, may soon be bestowed with the Geographical Indications (GI) tag. The details of the luscious fruit have been advertised in the Geographical Indications Journal, number 107, of June 5, 2018. The journal has been … Read more

BIHAR Patna to host international eye conference in 2020   Bihar will host the next biennial conference of eye doctors of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries here in 2020. Bihar successfully bid to host the event at the Saarc ophthalmological congress, held at Kathmandu in Nepal from June 21 to June … Read more

BIHAR CM Nitish Kumar: Liquor law amendment in monsoon session   Chief minister Nitish Kumar  said the state government would amend the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 in the upcoming monsoon session of the state legislature.   The CM announced the formation of Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) under EOU and launched his voice message on prohibition to … Read more

BIHAR Economists asked to study Bihar-specific development issues   Economists participating in the three-day annual meeting of Bihar Economic Association in Gaya have emphasised the need to conduct studies on Bihar-specific issues for speedy development of the state.   Some of the conference participants regretted that enough was not being done to dissect the different dimensions of … Read more

BIHAR PESU blames ‘foreign objects’ for power cuts   Amid growing number of complaints from city residents on frequent power cuts, Patna Electric Supply Understanding(PESU) has attributed it to transient fault owing to contact of foreign objects with the overhead electricity wires.   It is true that the number of complaints being received at the 48 … Read more

BIHAR Soon, Chhapra to get double-decker flyover   Chhapra will soon get a double-decker flyover, foundation of which is likely to be laid by chief minister Nitish Kumar in the first week of July.   The length of the double- decker flyover, the first-of-its-kind infrastructure in the state will be 3.5 km in length, while its width would be … Read more