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BIHAR Agroforestry policy soon in State An agroforestry policy will be formulated soon to spur integrated farming in order to raise farmers’ income and green cover in the state. The deputy CM, who also holds the portfolios of environment and forest and finance, stressed on the need to have an integrated farming … 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 government staff denied advance payment due to confusion The benefit of advance payment of salary and allowance could not be availed by all the state government employees due to confusion over allowances in the light of 7th Pay Commission recommendations, which became effective from October 11. The cabinet, on October 12, took the decision regarding payment … Read more
BIHAR Bihar Government launches Safe City Surveillance scheme for Women Safety The Bihar government has launched Safe City Surveillance Scheme for checking crime against women. It aims to bring all major public places under watch of close-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and improve overall crime control in the state. The scheme has been launched in a phase-wise … Read more
BIHAR Young schoolgoers target of state anti-tobacco drive Mobile medical teams engaged in conducting routine health check-up of children in government schools and Aanganwadi centres in Bihar under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) will now also create awareness on hazards of consuming tobacco products. The State Health Society (SHS) said all … Read more
BIHAR Nitish conferred with 1st Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Award Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has been selected for the 1st Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Award for Probity in Public Life. He was conferred the award at an official function of Jammu & Kashmir government held at Jammu. The award was constituted recently by the … Read more
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 Reservation not linked to low income, says nitish Cmnitish kumar has said that “social and educational backwardness”, and not “economic backwardness”, should be the basis to identify the beneficiaries of reservation in jobs and educational institutions. Thebihar government offers scholarship, students’ credit card and free bicycle and uniform,” the cm said and … Read more
BIHAR 7k of 30k murders in UP-Bihar in 2016 The popular perception that crime graph has gone down after prohibition in Bihar last year notwithstanding, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports that the state saw the second highest number of cases of heinous crime, including murder, after UP in 2016. According to the NCRB data … Read more