Bihars state universities are again turning into a battleground for the and the Raj Bhawan over the implementation of the four-year integrated graduation programme with choice based credit system (CBCS) from the new academic session that has just started.
The Raj Bhawans move is significant, as none of the Bihar universities had managed to implement the CBCS and semester system at the undergraduate level despite this being a common practice in most of the good universities.
The Percentage Population consuming gang and charas in the state is much below the national Average but, of late, it is showing a rising trend, as per theNarcotics Control Bureaufigures.
The national average is 1.2% of the population, which consumes ganja and charas as per a study of the ministry of social and Empowerment in 2019. Bihars average that time was 1.1%. But it has been observed later that there has been a rising trend.
As per the NCB data, drug abuse and trafficking has increased since 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, but it has also created unprecedented public awareness about Health and measures for staying healthy and protecting each other.
BhagalpurSmart CityLimited (BSCL) will soon commission smart e-toilets in different municipal wards of Bhagalpur (BMC) under the Smart City Mission (SCM) project.
Officials said installation of e-toilets at public places and creating awareness among the residents to use it is being done to promote the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The e-toilets are self-contained, self-cleaning, user-friendly, unmanned, automated and remotely monitored toilet pods installed in public places, which will operate on insertion of coins.
Bihar has reported the most number of deaths of doctors in the second wave ofCovid-19 pandemicin the country. Altogether 90 doctors from Bihar have lost their lives till now in the second wave of the pandemic out over 280 doctors across the country so far as perIndian Medical Association(IMA). Bihar is followed by Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in terms of doctors dying due to the fatal disease.
The national patients- doctor ratio is 1.4 doctor per 1,000 patients but the corresponding ratio in Bihar is one doctor for 2400 people. Roughly, there are around 30,000 registered doctors in the state against the Population of 12.5crores, out of which 18,000 work in government sector and remaining do private practice. As per a hypothesis, these fewer doctors did not get any rest for more than a year while facing the pandemic from very close. Consequently, they were exhausted, which adversely affected their immunity, which led to severity of the disease in many cases.
Five districts fromBiharreceived subnational certification for decline intuberculosiscases with respect to 2015 baseline. They were awarded at a function in Varanasi on Friday on the occasion ofWorld TB Day. PM Narendra Modi was present as the chief guest.
The five were among the 62 districts from the country applauded for moving towards the aim ofTBfree India by 2025.
Among the five districts,MuzaffarpurandSamastipurbagged gold for 60% decline and Siwan bagged silver for 40% decline. Saran and Purnia bagged bronze for 40% decline, said Health department secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh, who along with additional chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit attended the programme online. Dr BK Mishra, state programme officer for national TB programme in Bihar, received the medals at Varanasi.
All the universities inBiharwill introduce courses in Disaster Management from the next academic session (2023-24).
This was announced by the Education departments additional chief secretary Dipak Kumar Singh at a meeting convened by the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA) in collaboration with the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), New Delhi, here on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by the vice-chancellors of Patna and Open universities, principal secretary to the governor,NIDMrepresentative and other officials of the State Government. The vice-chairman ofBSDMA,Uday Kant Mishra, presided.
The state universities were asked to prepare a work plan for introduction of these courses. The universities will have to seek approval of their statutory committees like board of studies, academic council, syndicate and senate for introducing the courses. The final assent to the ordinance and regulations of these courses would have to be obtained from the governor.
The BSDMA authorities assured the universities that all necessary help would be extended to the universities and their constituent colleges in training the supporting TEACHING and non-teaching staff to be engaged in the courses.
CMNitish Kumar saidBiharis the first state in India which began providing financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each to the next kin of the persons who died due toCovid-19.
Addressing a public meeting as part of his Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan (campaign for social reforms) at Srikrishna memorial stadium in Jamui, Nitish also said that he took several steps during the Covid-19 period to provide necessary assistance to migrant people and bring back them to their native places in Bihar.
TheCMalso pointed out that though Bihar is the third largest state of the country in the matter of Population, it stood at 25th position in the case of Covid-19 infection. Bihar performed well in controlling the Covid-19 infection compared to many states, he said.
The CM also reiterated that he would attend only those marriage functions where No Dowry has been exchanged is prominently mentioned on the wedding invitation cards.
The Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan was launched from Motihari on December 22 last year. As per its original schedule, the campaign was to culminate atPatnaon January 15 this year. But it was suspended midway. The on January 5 decided to postpone the campaign in the wake of the rising case of omicron variant of Covid-19.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr) has approved the (AI) based Software technology COVZN, developed by theIIIT-Bhagalpurfor detection of Covid-19, tuberculosis and other severe chest infections at low cost and in less time. The ICMR has given its nod to use it at hospitals and laboratories across the country.
The researchers at IIIT-Bhagalpur had started working on the project after the surge of Covid-19 patients and delay in Covid testing since March, 2020.
Earlier, the ICMR had formed a high-level advisory committee headed by Dr Randeep Guleria (director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) and experts from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to explore the COVZN software and suggest the modalities for using it as soon as possible.
The state cooperative department on Thursday launched a web portal www.tarkaarimart.in to supply locally grown fresh vegetables to the residents of the state capital and East Champaran district. Launching the webportal, cooperative department secretary Vandana Preyasi said the project was preponed to discourage people visiting vegetable markets putting their lives at risk.
The project aimed at providing fair price of their produce to the farmers and vegetables to the consumers at a reasonable rate compared to the open vegetable markets. It will also fulfill the much ambitious project Har thaali mein Bihari Tarkari, (vegetable grown in Bihar in each platter in the country)” she added.
Around 12,000 vegetable growers of Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai and have got registered with the primary vegetable cooperative Society set up at the panchayat level for collection and Marketing of the produce.
Ahead of theOmicronthreat looming over the country, the state conducted a mock drill of allpressure swing adsorption(PSA) Plants in Bihar to ensure their functionality and readiness to provide Oxygen in the event of an emergency.
The state can now produce over 490 metric tonnes of oxygen per day through a variety of techniques.
In response to a question about Bihars oxygen-generating capacity, Singh stated, According to a calculation conducted on December 6, the states oxygen-generating capacity was 489 metric tonnes per day. During the peak of the second wave, 377 metric tonnes were required. Now, if we add 30% to that, we will require 490 metric tonnes. We added two more PSAs following the December 6 calculation, and it is certain that we have now exceeded 490 metric tonne capacity.
Singh added that 62 of the PSA plants were established under the PM CARES Fund, 10 by public sector units under the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, and the remaining 55 were set up by the and other organisations, including a couple by individuals.