Nov 2018

BIHAR Patna to get plastic waste processing unit soon The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has initiated fresh bidding process to rope in a firm for developing a plastic waste processing unit in the city.   Once the plastic waste processing unit starts functioning, the rural works department can use the plastic waste in construction of roads in … Read more

BIHAR   NCPCR plans management information system for child care institutions   With cases of abuse and mismanagement in children homes from across states in focus for many months now, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the ministry of women and child development are planning to put in place a Management Information … Read more

BIHAR Lip service slur on save-dolphin plan ð  There is more lip service in saving the national aquatic animal of India — Ganga Dolphins — than actual action”. ð  Chief minister Nitish Kumar announced the Ganga Dolphin Preservation Policy in 2013 and a National Ganga Dolphin Institute in Patna. Almost five years down the line, … Read more

BIHAR   In Bihar, school bag weight curbs from 2019 Most children in the city will have to continue lugging heavy loads to school for this academic year despite the Union human resource development ministry’s recent circular limiting weights of schoolbags.   As per the circular, the state governments have to formulate guidelines to limit … Read more

BIHAR   Patna’s air 3rd most polluted in country   Air quality in Patna continued to deteriorate for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. The air quality index (AQI) of the city, as per a bulletin issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), surged from 402 on Tuesday to 423 on Wednesday, the third highest … Read more

BIHAR   Sikkim model for organic farm   The Bihar government is preparing a roadmap for the promotion of organic farming in the state.   State agriculture minister Prem Kumar on Monday said the state government was eyeing the Sikkim model of organic farming. Prem said this during Javik Dhan Katni Mahotsav, an event organised … Read more

BIHAR ADB funds for Bihar state highway upgrade   The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned a Rs 1,420-crore loan for the Bihar government to upgrade six state highways into two-lane roads.   At present, Bihar has 4,006km of state highways of which 2,808km have already been converted into two-lane roads.   The Nitish Kumar-led … Read more

BIHAR   Bihar board bid to help examinees save time   Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) chairman said the students of classes X and XII would not have to write their names, roll number, registration number, year of examination and subject code on the answer sheets from next year onwards as these information will already be … Read more

BIHAR Increase state’s share in central taxes: Sushil Kumar Modi   Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said the 15th Finance Commission chairman N K Singh should tweak the parameters for the devolution of divisible pool of central taxes to the states so that that Bihar gets benefited from it, as there has been progressive decline in the actual … Read more

BIHAR   Rajgir Buddha launch on Nov. 25   Chief minister Nitish Kumar will inaugurate the 50-foot-high Lord Buddha statue in the middle of Ghorakatora Lake at Rajgir in Nalanda district, around 110km south of Patna, on November 25.   The chief minister has agreed to inaugurate the statue on November 25. It is one … Read more