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Bihar Aadhaar mandatory for prisoners in Patna jails. All prisoners, whether under trial or convicted and lodged in Patna jails would now have to present their Aadhaar number to the jail administrations mandatorily. Those inmates who do not have Aadhaar numbers for any reason , would get it within ten days, that … Read more
Bihar Now, December 2019 deadline for Ganga driveway. The state government’s ambitious Loknayak Ganga Path, popularly known as Ganga driveway, is unlikely to meet 2017 deadline due to delay in land acquisition and other issues. Senior Bihar State Road Development Corporation Limited (BSRDCL) officials said the project would be completed by December 2019 as the … Read more
Bihar 65% children not breastfed within one hour of birth in Bihar. The gender resource centre of Women Development Corporation, in association with Unicef, organized an outreach and experience-sharing workshop on ‘Sustaining BreastfeedingTogether’ to commemorate the World Breastfeeding Week. As per National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), 48 infants per 1,000 births in Bihar die … Read more
Bihar Bihar education minister warns of action against ‘ghost’ schoolteachers. State education minister Krishna Nandan Verma has warned that action would be taken against “ghost” (absentee) teachers if they do not mend their ways. “Those who are in the job of teaching just to get salary should change their mindset or face the axe,” Verma … Read more
Bihar Nitish distributes portfolios, keeps home ministry; Sushil Modi gets finance, commercial taxes. The portfolios for other ministers are as follows:- Nand Kishore Yadav– Road construction Shrawan Kumar– Rural development and parliamentary affairs Ram Narayan Mandal– Revenue and Land Reforms Jai Kumar Singh– Industries, Science and Technology Pramod Kumar– Tourism Krishnandan Verma– Education … Read more
Bihar Special status for Bihar set to get renewed focus With Nitish Kumar junking the grand alliance and joining hands with BJP again, his fervent plea for a ‘special category’ status for the state and bigger share of 90% by the Centre in the centrally sponsored schemes. Officials cited the example of … Read more
Bihar Patna Metro project has to wait till new national policy The city residents will have to wait for some more time to see metro running in the state capital as the Centre has halted the project till the new national metro policy is framed. The Centre has written to the state government … Read more
Bihar New bill for Bihar varsity commission in monsoon session to fill vacancies A new bill will be tabled during the forthcoming monsoon session of the Bihar legislature for the constitution of the Bihar State University Service Commission to fill largescale vacancies in the state’s universities. This bill be one of … Read more
Bihar Now, free Tuberculosis medicines at private hospitals in Bihar The state government rolled out free daily regimen medicines for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) patients in private hospital and clinics in Patna district under public-private partnership mode with the help of World Health Partners (WHP), an NGO. The medicines will be distributed … Read more
Bihar 65 govt schools in Patna to get Rs 50k for labs, libraries. Bihar Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (BMSA) has announced Rs50,000 grants each to 65 government schools in Patna district to upgrade their laboratories and libraries. The grant will be transferred to the schools under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) The other … Read more