September 2019

BIHAR Transport dept mandates online pollution certificate from Oct 1 State transport department has instructed all the pollution testing centres to upload emission test data of vehicles electronically to VAHAN database.   The pollution under certificates issued manually by pollution testing centres will be treated as invalid after 30 September and the vehicle owners will … Read more

BIHAR State govt defers Jal Jeevan Hariyali campaign   Faced with unprecedented waterlogging in Patna and floods in other parts of the State, the Bihar government has decided to defer the October 2 launch of its ambitious ‘Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali’ campaign.   On Wednesday last, the state cabinet had approved Rs 24,524 crore for the campaign to … Read more

BIHAR ·       Rs 24,524 crore for ‘hariyali’ mission: Bihar gov​ernment ð The state cabinet approved Rs 24,524 crore for the government’s Jal-Jivan-Hariyali Abhiyan (JJHA) to be implemented in Bihar over the next three years from this fiscal. ð Rs 5,870 crore would be spent on the JJHA during the current fiscal, Rs 9,874 crore in 2020-21 and the remaining … Read more

BIHAR   ·         CM Nitish Kumar lays stone for Bihar’s first forestry college in Munger ð  Chief minister Nitish Kumar  laid the foundation stone for a government engineering college in Munger which will be constructed at a cost of Rs 80 crore. He also launched the commencement of construction work for the state’s first forestry college … Read more

BIHAR   Bihar to have new medical university   Bihar will have a separate full-fledged medical university to cater to all medical, nursing and paramedical courses.   The idea was to carve out medical education from the Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU), which currently mentors all technical and medical institutions, and to create a separate medical … Read more

BIHAR Bihar asks Centre to discharge 18 lakh cusec water through Farakka barrage over Ganga   Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said around 16 lakh cusec of water was being currently discharged through Farakka barrage to ease out further spread of flood waters in different parts of the state alongside Ganga river. It was the second time in the last week … Read more

BIHAR Ravi Shankar inaugurated Bihars first all women employee post office   Union Minister of Communications and Electronics and Information TechnologyRavi Shankar Prasadinaugurated Bihar’s first all-women employee post office on the campus of Bihar Public Service Commission. The post office will deal with all correspondent materials of BPSC competitive examinations. It will also help aspirants in providing … Read more

BIHAR Malnutrition death shadow on Bihar kids   Bihar is among the worst performers when it comes to malnutrition deaths in children under five years of age and tops the list of states with stunted children and low birth weight of infants. The state has a 72.7% death rate attributable to malnutrition in children younger than five years, … Read more

BIHAR ·         Bihar cut up with Tamil Nadu for not following norms ð  Bihar cautioned Tamil Nadu that in future it would not accept children rescued there and sent back unless it followed the laid down norms under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015. ð  In case of inter-state transfer, the state sending the rescued children … Read more

BIHAR Gaya tops in water conservation   Gaya district emerged first with a score of 79.79 in the all-India final ranking of the Union Jal Shakti Mantralay for the initiatives taken towards water conservation and restoration of groundwater level.   The ranking of the districts may change in future as the assessment by the Jal … Read more