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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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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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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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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Indian parliament passed the Bihar Reorganization Bill on August, 2, 2000 to create the state of Jharkhand. The state comprises of twenty-two districts of the erstwhile Bihar (eighteen at the time of bifurcation). With an area of 74,677 Sq km, the new state is bordered by Bihar, Chattisgarh, Orissa, and West Bengal to its north, west, south and east respectively. Around 35% of the population of former...
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With assembly elections due nextyear, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has strongly advocatedclassification for backward and extremely backward classes(EBCs) in central services.Stating that former Bihar chief minister KarpooriThakur had done the classification while he was in officeduring 1977-80, Kumar asked government employees belonging toEBC to raise the demand.The NDA government in Bihar is...
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Medical Association (IMA)Bihar Chapter today strongly reacted to the recommendations ofthe Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC) to the stategovernment asking it to take legal action against strikingdoctors and said "harsh actions" might aggravate thesituation."It is better to find out an amicable solution to theindefinite strike by the striking medicos the matter can beresolved through mutual discussion...
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