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Doctors urged to adopt a village in Bihar

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 07:07 PM PDT

PATNA: Health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubeyon Saturday assured the doctors that the proposed Medical Professional Protection Act is in final stage and it would be moved in the state assembly in its next session.

Addressing the inaugural session of 41st foundation day of Nalanda Medical College (NMC) on the college premises, Choubey said the proposed act was to be introduced in the recently-concluded budget session of the state assembly. “But it could not be moved in the house as it was still in the drafting stage ,” he said.

The dynamic assured career progression (DACP) scheme for the medical professionals would soon be presented before the state cabinet for its approval, the health minister said.

The minister, however, urged the doctors to adopt a village and make it healthy. The doctors present on the occasion clapped and promised the minister to fulfil his wish. The minister asked NMC principal Dr Geeta Singh to take steps in this regard.

Choubey also assured to fulfil the demands of the college, which included an auditorium, hostels for boys and girls, increase in number of buses to ferry the medical students from the medical college to the hospital.

Earlier, welcoming the guests, NMC principal Dr Geeta Singh placed the demands of the college before the health minister. She stressed the need for construction of hostels for boys and girls as the number of seats in the college had increased. She also demanded construction of an auditorium, an additional lecture hall and increase in number of buses for the students. Others who spoke on the occasion included principal secretary, health, Amarjeet Sinha.

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MS Dhoni to become Dr. Dhoni

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 06:19 AM PDT

RANCHI: The Jharkhand government on Sunday said that it would confer an honorary doctorate degree on local boy and Indian cricket captainMahendra Singh Dhoni – who is yet to complete his graduation but who led his team to a fantasticWorld Cup victory in Mumbai. 

“We will soon initiate the process to awardhonorary doctorate degree to Dhoni,” said Baijnath Ram, human resource development (HRD) minister of Jharkhand.

The state HRD minister announced before the World Cup that a doctorate degree would be awarded to Dhoni if India win the tournament.

Dhoni, 29, is doing his graduation from St Xavier’s College in Ranchi. He has been unable to complete the course due to his tight schedule.

Jharkhand earlier gifted a 4,000 sq feet plot and a Rs 11 lakh car to Dhoni when India won the T20 World Cup in 2007.

Celebrations continued in Ranchi for the second day after India beat Sri Lanka in the World Cup final in Mumbai on Saturday. People thronged to Dhoni’s house situated at Harmu Housing Colony of Ranchi to congratulate his family members.

Dhoni’s parents however preferred not to speak to mediapersons. The entire city seemed to be in a celebration mood and there was praise all round for Dhoni.

Soon after Dhoni hit the winning runs in the final match in Mumbai Saturday, children, youth and elderly came onto streets to celebrate the Indian victory.

“Dhoni tune kar dala” (Dhoni you did it) and “Jharkhand ka Lal, India ko dila diya World Cup” (son of Jharkhand has won the World Cup for India) were some of the slogans shouted by people in Ranchi.

Not only Ranchi but the entire Jharkhand witnessed Diwali-like celebrations till late in the night.

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Patna- Delhi route to be setup as high-speed coridoor

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 06:08 AM PDT

PATNA: Although introduction of Bullet trains onIndian Railway tracks is still a dream, the high-speed corridors have finally been identified by the Railway Board for pre-feasibility studies.

The governments of respective states through which the project would pass, have also agreed to share the cost of the project.

According to a Railway Board official, railway minister Mamata Banerjee has given her nod to this ambitious project conceptualized long back. Railways has identified six corridors for conducting pre-feasibility tests for running high-speed trains. They are Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna (991 km), Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar (450 km), Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad (650 km), Hyderabad-Darnakal-Vijaywada-Chennai (644 km), Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam (649 km) and Howrah-Haldia (135 km), he said.

Under the plan, railways intends to run some trains at the speed of 160 km to 200 km per hour while a few pairs of trains would have restriction to run at the speed of 160 km to 180 km per hour in different zones of railways due to track condition.

The high-speed train corridors have become the need of the hour for railways to face competition with air services. The railways is keen to provide fast running trains to people on the pattern of European countries. The high-speed corridors would thus fulfil the needs of railways at a time when it is facing tough competition with air and road transport services, said the Railway Board official.

According to him, the Patna-New Delhi route seems to be the most viable for converting it into a high-speed corridor. Tracks of superfine quality have replaced the old tracks all along the route. However, signalling system is yet to be improved on this particular route, he said.

According to sources, a high-level team comprising Railway Board officials has already held meetings with different state governments in connection with the survey work of the project’s pre-feasibility.

In Bihar, Railways intends to carry out the pre-feasibility test at a cost of about Rs 15 crore, sources said, adding the total area falling under Bihar is about 200 km while the rest falls under the jurisdiction of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi state government. Introduction of high-speed trains would yield revenue to the railways as well-off passengers would prefer to travel by these trains. Railways must get uninterrupted power supply to run high-speed trains. IIT, Kharagpur, has been working on this project to make the dream project of railways a reality, sources said.

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Diwali in Ranchi after majestic win of the worldcup

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 06:07 AM PDT

RANCHI: Thousands of sports lovers took to the streets in Team India Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s home town Ranchi to celebrate the World Cup victory over Sri Lanka. 

Crackers boomed after Dhoni hit the winning six, as over 2000 people gathered at a ground near Captain M S Dhoni’s residence at Harmu to watch the tense battle between bat and ball on a giant screen.

Fans danced to the tune of drums and cheered with the fall of each rival wicket and with each boundary hit by Team India’s batsmen.

Cheers became louder after Dhoni completed 6000 runs in one day cricket and then reaching to his half century; enlivening the fans who initially fell silent after openers Virendra Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar returned pavillion quickly.

“For the first time the two Asian countries have fought for the World Cup with India winning. This night will never to be forgotten,” said Raj Kumar, who stays in the neighbourhood of Dhoni.

“It is a proud moment for Dhoni, who had won both the T20 World Cup and the 50 overs quadrennial event toda…I was not born when India won World Cup in 1983,” said Rajesh Sen.

“Now Ranchi is a proud city boasting winners — starting from late hockey legend Jaipal Singh who captained India to Olympic gold medal in the 1930s and Dhoni leading India to T20 and 50 overs World Cup victories,” said Vinod Kumar, a keen sports lover.

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Student sets up BPO in Muzaffarpur

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 01:03 AM PDT

Hitesh Kumar Kyal quit his study, albeit temporarily, to support his family back home in Howrah, Kolkata. He was a first-year BA (Political Science) student at St Xavier’s College, Kolkata. Five years later, Kyal, 23, is able to provide jobs to youngsters like him at his business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.

Even after resuming his studies and pursuing MBA from a management school in Gurgaon, Kyal stayed out of the campus recruitment process. Having the burden of repaying his education loan of R10 lakh, it was an adventurous step for him. But according to Kyal, he was guided by his conviction to set up his own business.

"Some people defer their plans and objectives. But I believe if you want to achieve something, why not today?" he said. Kyal, along with his business partner Raj Kumar Chetan, started his firm Frugal. Frugal employs young graduates from rural areas and processes businesses of several banking, telecom and insurance companies. Kyal said the company is expected to employ 5,000 people in a few years.

Muzaffarpur was chosen after much research. "We discovered that the city produces 70,000 graduates every year. It produces the right quantum of talent but offers little opportunities," said Kyal.

He said his company can prove to be a turning point for the rapidly-growing economy of Bihar, similar to the case of software giant Infosys in Bangalore.

"We are foraying into Bihar at the right time. It was right time that made DLF popular in Gurgaon. Who knows, Frugal could be the next big thing in Muzaffarpur,” said Kyal.

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Bihar posts decline in decadal growth rate

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 07:58 PM PDT

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar — Hindi heartland states that account for 25 % of India's 121-crore population — have posted a decline in their decadal growth rate of population, as India witnesses its steepest decline in decadal growth rate since independence.

Significantly, the decadal rates of population growth in the two states had increased in the last census despite a high base. India registered a 17.64 % decadal growth rate in the 2011 census — a 3.9 percentage point decline over the figure of 21.54% in 2001. The two populous states too showed similar trends.

UP's population grew by 20.1% from 2001 to 2011, more than 5 percentage points lower than its decadal growth of 25.9% in the previous decade. The 2001 figure was a marginal increase over the previous decade.

Bihar's decadal growth rate of population from 2001 to 2011 was 25.1 %, about 3 percentage points lower than the 28.6%  between 1991 and 2001.

The 2001 figure was, however, 5 percentage points higher than the 1991 census figure of 23.38%, which showed that up to 10 years back, population of Bihar was increasing at a higher pace than before.

UP is home to 16% of India's population and Bihar 9%. "It is a good sign. If we keep increasing our population, how will we provide employment?" said economist Ashish Bose.

JNU economist Praveen Jha, however, adds that the spurt in Bihar's population in the previous decade was surprising.

Rajasthan's decadal growth of population has declined from 28.4% to 21.4% from the last census to this one, and MP's corresponding figure has also gone down from 24.3% to 20.3%.

The southern states still fare better than the Hindi heartland. The decadal growth rates are 15.7% for Karnataka, 11.1% for AP, 15.6% for Tamil Nadu and 4.9% for Kerala, overall much healthier than the north.

The Kerala figure — the second lowest in India — is a decline from 9.4% in 2001, but, Tamil Nadu has posted a rise in its decadal population growth from 11.7 % in the 1991-2001 decade.

 

 

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