15.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

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

07-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Bihar discoms file power tariff petition for next fiscal   The North Bihar Power Distribution Company and the South Bihar Power Distribution Company on Tuesday evening filed their electricity tariff petition for the next fiscal (2018-19) with the Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC).   The BERC will take at least three months to take a call on the … Read more

16.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR Bihar legislature’s budget session from February 26   The budget session of the bicameral state legislature in Bihar is likely to commence on February 26 and the state budget would be presented the next day, an official said. Other decisions taken at the cabinet meeting include state guarantee for a Rs 500 crore loan to be taken by … Read more

06.10.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

BIHAR   Bihar continues to struggle with healthcare   Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s initiatives in the healthcare sector has borne fruit, but there is a still a long way to go says the National Family Health Survey report-4 for Bihar.   The report notes that while fertility is declining and early marriage has decreased ‘substantially’, … Read more

27.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR Nitish bats for EBC quota in central jobs, varsities   Chief minister Nitish Kumar on pitched for separate reservation for the EBCs (extremely backward classes) in the central government’s appointments as well as admissions in central education institutions on the line of Bihar government’s Karpoori formula.   The Centre currently provides 27% reservation to OBCs (other backward classes), which include … Read more

14.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR • Soon, Bihar to recruit over 1,000 SIS after a 13-year gap  Bihar will soon advertise over 1,000 posts of sub-inspectors (SI) to be filled through direct recruitment. Decks were cleared for the same following an amendment to the Bihar Police Manual, 1978 on August 30.  The government has already identified the … Read more