BIHAR

The total expenditure on the three ROBs is to the tune of Rs145.56 crore to be shared jointly by the railways and the state. The state share for the ROB between Naugachhia and Kataria RAILWAY stations in Bhagalpur district is Rs2.92 crore against the total cost of Rs41.65 crore.

The cabinet also approved the allotment of Rs97 crore for the establishment ofcentres of excellenceat the state industrial technology institutes (ITIs), besides nominating the ITIPatnaas the project executing agency.

The is to be utilized between 2021-22 and 2025-26.

TheBihar State Pollution Control Board(BSPCB) has invited proposals from institutions of the state engaged in active research work for making a collaborative study on various aspects of human Health and pollution control.
BSPCB chairman Ashok KumarGhoshsaid the decision to invite proposals for the betterment of human health and Environment was taken at a meeting of the representatives of different institutions held at the board headquarters.

The proposals for integrated research have been invited on topics like development of technology and innovative solutions for pollution control, multi-disciplinary approach towards the solution of environmental problems and statewide and region-wide specific studies

At a time when online study has been the only option available for students owing to the Covid pandemic, only 14% of the school students inBiharhave access tocomputers.

According to the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) report released recently, less than one in five schools had working computers and only a limited number of them had Internet connection. It is even more surprising to know that 73% students in neighbouringJharkhandhave had access to computers, the report said.

The minister said the government is already seized of this problem and had, some time back, requested the central government to sanction necessary funds under Samagra Shiksha Yojana for providing necessary digital devices like smartphones and laptops to the students and install good number of computers with internet connectivity in all the schools so that our children do not suffer.

State healthdepartment instructed all the private laboratories functioning inBiharto share the data related to patients various diseases. The motive is to identify the places from where the diseases, especially communicable ones, are emerging and to find ways to stop them and also provide government benefits to the patients undergoing tests at private centres.

Dr Kumar said they were keeping a tab on some 33 infectious diseases and Stress was given on collection of their data, so that their spread could be checked. He said while some of the private laboratories have started sharing their data, a few were still not following the process.
Nearly three weeks back, a workshop was organised by the state Health Society and a central team in the state capital in which stress was given on proper surveillance of communicable diseases and to expand the integrated disease surveillance programme (IDSP) and integrated health information platform (IHFP) of the central government.

The IIT-Patna will get a PARAM supercomputer of 833 Tera Flops (TF) high performance computing (HPC) system by September this year. It will be the first supercomputer in Bihar.

The IIT-P and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a central government body, on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up the supercomputer under the Centre’s National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).

As per the MoU, the supercomputer will be commissioned at IIT-Patna’s Bihta campus by September this year. Its will be based on Rudra server, which is indigenously designed, manufactured and assembled in India in line with the AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.

Chief Minister-cum-Chancellor ofBihar EngineeringUniversity(BEU)Nitish Kumar asked officials to ensure admission of girls against at least 33.3% of seats in all the -owned engineering colleges.

Chairing the first general council meeting of the BEU, the chancellor Nitish said at least 33.3% (one-third) seats in all the state governments engineering colleges have been reserved for the girls. We want that at least 33.3% girls are admitted against the reserved seats so that an adequate number of Women get higher Education along with boys. The more girls will be educated, the Society will progress more, the chancellor said.

The scope of the project includes the development of a Sewage Treatment Plants with a capacity of 150 MLD and a sewage treatment Network of more than 453 kilometers in the Digha and Kankarbagh areas of Patna State, which is one of the most populous cities on both sides of the Ganges.

This is the first of its kind and consists of the Design, Build, Operate and Transfer (‘DBOT’) scope and the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) scope.

After implementation, all sewage areas in Patna City will be covered by the sewage pipe network and sewage treatment capacity.

It should help achieve the goal of the Namami Gange plan, which is to prevent any untreated wastewater from entering the Ganga River.

CMNitish Kumarsaid in the state assembly that the ongoing project of installing smart pre-paid meters for power consumers in the state would be completed by 2025. At the same time, he ruled out giving free electricity to any category of power consumers.

The CM made the announcement in this regard in the legislative assembly while giving government’s reply to the discussion held as part of the vote of thanks on governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar’s address to the joint session of .

The CM said 1,354 Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture feeders had been created and 3.54 lakh farmers were given power connection so far.

The government has been purchasing power at the rate of Rs5.55 per unit, but the power consumers were being charged at the nominal rate of 70 paise per unit

In order to improve and raise the standard of research, state’s universities have geared up to use a much more stringentanti-plagiarism softwareto conduct checks on all thesis submissions and dissertations. Under the UGC’sinformation and library Network(INFLIBNET) scheme, around 15 higher Education institutions in the state have been provided plagiarism detection Software (PDS) through the’Shodh Shuddhi’ project.
Many universities have also already started screening the theses for plagiarism before accepting them for evaluation.

Shodh Chakra supports the university to collect and organise the entire life cycle of the scholars registered for the research programme. It is an interactive dashboard to keep a record of all the communications that happen between the research guide (faculty member), scholars and the research administration.

Bihar CMNitish Kumar asked rural development department (RDD) officials to ensure that all eligible poor families get apucca houseconstructed either under thePradhan Mantri Awas Yojana– Grameen (PMAY-G) or the Mukhya Mantri Grameen Awas Yojana (MMGAY).
While chairing a meeting to review the progress of the PMAY-G and the MMGAY in the state, he also asked the officials to ensure that not a single eligible beneficiary is left out from getting a pucca house under either of the two schemes.

The families which have been rendered homeless because of the anti-encroachment drive on the public lands like Aahar, pynes and ponds under the Jal-Jeevan-Haryali Abhiyan, would also be provided benefits of the either of the two housing schemes or the Mukhya Mantri Vaas-Sthal Kray Sahayata Yojana (Chief Minister Homestead Land Purchase Assistance Scheme.)

The provides assistance of Rs 60,000 per family under the Vas-Sthal Kray Yojana to buy land for building homes to those BPL families that do not have their own land.
Nitish also said that if a person has been approved fund for constructing a pucca house under the PMAY-G and she/ he does not have even a small piece of land to construct the house, such eligible families should be provided the assistance of Rs 60,000 under the Vas-Sthal Kray Yojana so that such beneficiaries can buy land for their own Home.