Monday 4 April 2011

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Patna zoo visit gets dearer

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 12:09 AM PDT

PATNA: Visitors to the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park now have to cough up more money as the authorities have hiked the entry fee effective Friday. The fee was last increased in December 2004.

While the entry fee for adults has been increased from Rs 10 to Rs 15, that for children has remained untouched at Rs 5. A group of 25 students and more will be charged Rs 4 per person.

While fares for half-an-hour-long boating has increased from Rs 50 to Rs 75 for double seater boats, for four seaters it has been increased from Rs 60 to Rs 90.

Toy train fares for adults and children will be Rs 15 and Rs 10 respectively. For the Fish house, no change has been effected. For children’s park, adults and children will now have to pay Rs 10 and Rs 5 respectively.

Apart from morning walks, the health freaks can now also enjoy cycling in the midst of lush green botanical garden while enjoying the rich fauna. The much awaited provision for cycling has been introduced, for which Rs 10 per hour will be charged. A sum of Rs 100 will be deposited as security amount, which will be refunded after deducting the charges.

“The user just has to provide an address proof and a mobile number,” said deputy director of the zoo, Pravin Kumar.

There is good news for those who don’t want to walk around the zoo. From May, battery-operated four and eight-seated vehicles will be introduced inside the zoo.

“In the beginning, two to three such vehicles will be introduced, and as per the response of people we will start a few more,” said Kumar, adding “from the starting point at both the main gates, they will stop at various points like giraffe enclosure, rose garden, lion and tiger enclosures.”

An artificially recreated water fall and cave on a hillock near the main entrance were also inaugurated on the occasion of Bihar Diwas on March 22.2

 

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Bihar to introduce Information Communication Policy

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:09 PM PDT

PATNA: Bihar will introduce its new information technology policy rechristened as Information Communication Technology (ICT) Policy, 2011, and the information technology has been given the status of industry. This was decided on Saturday at a meeting of the IT department chaired by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

IT department principal secretary Arun Kumar gave a presentation on the new IT policy saying consultations have been made with the different departments, representatives of IT and business sector as well as educational institutions and their suggestions have been incorporated in the new policy. The CM suggested that the new policy be known as ICT Policy, 2011.

The official said that there will be four components of the policy — for citizens, for education, for governance and for industries. The CM said that the policy for education be linked with computer education in high schools and review of the standard of computer education in the schools. This policy will be introduced in schools phase-wise and computer education be made available to physically handicapped people on priority basis.

Stressing on the transparency in the policy, Nitish said that in allocation of land, capital subsidy, electric subsidy, stamp duty and electricity duty, transparent policies should be framed. In the backdrop of power problem, he said, capital subsidy be provided to IT industries for purchasing generator sets. He also ordered that special subsidy be given to employment generating IT units. The government is considering to give employment assistance subsidy to such units. The CM said that open source and open standard be included in the ICT policy.

Besides the CM, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, chief secretary Anup Mukherjee, industrial development commissioner C K Mishra, planning and development principal secretary Vijoy Prakash, commercial taxes secretary Rajeet Punhani, CM s secretaries Chanchal Kumar, S Siddharth and Atish Chandra, BSEB chairman P K Rai and Beltron technical secretary P C Choudhary were present at the meeting.

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