Nandan Nilekani, heading the India Unique Identification Database Authority, will visit Bihar on November 17 to discuss ways to facilitate the state's e-governance system.Official sources said chief minister Nitish Kumar had asked the state officials to approach Nilekani who agreed to visit Bihar on November 17.At present, all 37 district headquarters and 470 block headquarters in Bihar can be accessed...
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Bihar will showcase itself as the "land of boundless opportunities" during the 29th India International Trade Fair (IITF) beginning here from November 14. This will be done through Bihar Pavilion where stalls of Madhubani, Mithila and Godna paintings, Madhubani Sari, Suzni work Sari, Laah-Churi will be the main attractions. It will also showcase Bihar's special delicacies including Litti-chokka, Tilkut...
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creation of Jharkhand on November 15, 2000, by dividing Bihar when AtalBihari Vajpayee was the PM was a shock for residual Bihar. Yet, nine years on,Bihar's senior BJP leader and deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi thinks the separationof Jharkhand has proved to be a boon for Bihar for economic reasons, speciallyin the light of interest the investors have now been showing.Modimade his observation on Thursday....
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the crest of a 'good governance', Bihar is all set for an industrial revival during the next decade with the state's GDP moving towards achieving a healthy eight per cent growth.This view was expressed by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in its latest report entitled ''Bihar Vision-2020-A Growth Strategy'' which was released here today.Deputy Chief Minister Sushil...
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The Bihar government is focusing on food processing industry to achieve a “faster” and “all-inclusive” economic growth, according to its industry principal secretary, A K Sinha. A team of senior industry department officials of the Bihar government headed by Mr Sinha, on Thursday visited Orissa to interact with prospective entrepreneurs to invest in food processing and agro-industries in their state....
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PATNA:Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that the demand for accordingspecial category status to Bihar has now become a sort of movement and that thepeople of the state would not give up until they accomplish theirgoal.Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the "Bihar PovertyReduction Summit" on the Bihar Assembly premises, Nitish said that the demandfor special category status to Bihar...
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Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan Nilekani has said people of Bihar would begin to get bio-metric cards from August 2011.After meeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here, Mr Nilekani said last night that people in Bihar would start getting multi- purpose bio-metric card from August 2011 and it would continue till December in its first phase of distribution.'' About...
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Nearly 20 million eligible voters in Bihar are still without voter identity cards - making for a giant task for the Election Commission ahead of assembly polls next year.'Despite less than a year for the next assembly polls, nearly 20 million voters are without voter identity cards in Bihar,' an official said.According to official figures, there are 54,324,000 eligible voters in Bihar but only 35,171,917...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumartoday renewed his demand for a Rs 14,800 crore special packagefor reconstruction of the flood-ravaged Kosi belt andrehabilitation of the victims."We want the package as it has become necessary for theKosi belt ravaged by floods," he said here.The demand was made barely a couple of days after hismeeting with Planning Commission deputy chairman MontekSingh Ahluwalia,...
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FIR was lodged at Shastri Nagar police station of the state capital of Bihar against RJD Rajya Shabha member Subhas Yadav, brother of former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, his wife and brother in-law.Seniour Police Superintendent Vinit Vinayak today said Shivjee Yadav, a clerk of Bihar Assembly, had complained that Mr Yadav, his wife Renu Devi and his brother in-law were threatening him.The SSP said...
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