BPSC Prelims and Mains Notes, BPSC Test Series
BIHAR Choubey launches mega national immunisation prog for kids in Bihar As part of a nationwide programme, Union minister of state for health and family welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey launched ‘Intensified Mission Indradhanush’, in the state capital with an aim to immunise all children in Bihar against preventable diseases. As per plan, … Read more
BIHAR 95,000 tuberculosis cases reported in Bihar last year Additional executive director of State Health Society Sanjay Kumar Singh on expressed concern over lack of tuberculosis test facility at integrated counselling and test centres (ICTCs) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres where HIV patients co-infected with multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB visit. In 2016, nearly 65,000 TB cases … Read more
BIHAR Centre to release special funds for six Maoist-hit districts in state The Centre is to allocate special yearly funds to 35 different districts across seven states in India, including six districts in Bihar that are worst affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE). The funds are meant for development of public infrastructure and services and to … Read more
BIHAR 53 crore children to get deworming tablets on February 19 Over 5.53 crore children in the age group of 1-19 years will be administered Albendazole – a chewable tablet – in all government, government-aided and private schools to mark National Deworming Day (NDD) on February 19. The state health department has drawn up a … Read more
BIHAR Application, website soon to take the waste food to needy Roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food produced in the world is discarded every year. Had only one fourth of the food wasted globally been saved, it would have been sufficient to feed 900 million people all over. Launched in Patna, ‘Don’t … Read more
BIHAR Bihar jails to be linked with ERP system Buoyed by the success of Prison-enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system in Patna based Beur jail in 2012-13, Bihar’s rest 55 jails would now be extended this facility. The system could be adopted after its formal inauguration by CM Nitish Kumar at state’s first … Read more
BIHAR No tiger death case reported in Bihar this year Year 2017 has proved to be a good year for tigers in Bihar as no case of death of big cat has so far been reported from any part of the state . The number of big cats has also surged in state’s lone tiger … Read more
National women’s commission It is said that the best way to know about society, a civilization and a culture, try to know as much possible about the women. In India, women have come a long way from the rare women scholars and sages of the Vedic age to the women in different sectors of society … Read more
Workers, Peasant and Tribal Movements in Bihar The peasant movements for agrarian reforms in India have always been centred on the issue of land ownership and land distribution. The term ‘peasant’ includes tenant, sharecropper, small farmer not regularly employed, hired labour, and landless labourers. Several peasant movements rose over economic questions all through the British … Read more
India has a long land frontier and coastline. It shares boundaries with Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka. India has official political relations with most nations. India is considered as the world’s second most populous and democratic country. Foreign policy of India has always regarded the concept of neighbourhood as … Read more