Friday 22 April 2011

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Polythene to be banned in Bihar soon says Modi

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:55 PM PDT

Patna, Apr 19 (PTI) Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi today said the state government would soon ban polythene bags in Bihar on the pattern of Delhi, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. “We will soon ban polythene bags in Bihar on the pattern of Delhi, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh,” Modi told reporters. He said the Centre had decided to effect a ban on sell and use of polythene bags with thickness of less than 40 microns and the state government would have to enforce a similar order to reduce adverse effects on environment by polythene bags. “The state government has the right to implement the ban on the pattern on other states+, he said.

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Bihar government to increase DA by 6 pc

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 07:54 AM PDT

PATNA: Bihar Government today desided to increase by six per cent from 45 per cent to 51 per cent dearness allowance of its over 4.5 lakh employees as well as pensioners with effect from January 1, 2011.

A decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of state cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Talking to reporters after cabinet meeting, state cabinet coordination department additional secretary Upendra Kumar said the increase would entail Rs 225.5 crore to the state exchequer.

 

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Patna looks modern, says US officer

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:47 AM PDT

PATNA: Patna looks more modern and progressive than what I had expected it to be like! Thus spoke Lydia Barraza, cultural affairs officer in the US embassy in New Delhi, during her first visit to the state on Tuesday.

“Many stories about Bihar changing and modernizing are doing the rounds these days across the world. That’s why we are here — to gather more about the ground realities and explore areas of possible cultural interaction,” Barraza told TOI.

Barraza has “heard a lot about “state chief minister Nitish Kumar who has been helming Bihar’s rapid metamorphosis into a modern state for the last five years. “I learnt from my interaction with NGOs and activist groups that (development and welfare) schemes have been executed in rural areas and panchayats in real terms. There is much to learn from Bihar’s experience,” she said.

According to her, the students of Bihar exude amazing confidence and are very talented and hardworking. The educational institutions have great potential, said Barraza who served in Nigeria before being assigned Delhi ten months ago.

Speaking about the US embassy’s American Corner in Patna that has been working to increase people-to-people interaction, Barraza said there is a plan to bring in expert speakers to the centre to deliver lectures on various topics.

Earlier, while interacting with the students of Indian Institute of Business Management, Barraza spoke at length about the various areas of interaction between India and the US and highlighted issues like trade, business, education, nuclear capability and the strategic dialogue between the two countries. The US society, she said, has adopted many Indian trends and fashion practices like saris and bangles. Bollywood blockbuster ’3 Idiots’ was a box office hit in the US as well. “While Amir Khan and Rani Mukherjee are my favourite Bollywood stars, ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’ is fave among Hindi movies,” she said.

The students seemed to connect quite fast with the lady, dressed in white top and black trousers, speaking in chaste, flawless Hindi.

 

 

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Son of Auto driver from Patna gets into IIMs

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:39 AM PDT

Braving all odds, the son of a poor auto-rickshaw driver from Patna has made it to the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, (IIM-C). Anupam Kumar, a resident of Bhadra Ghat locality in Patna, scored a 97.09 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) to qualify for the prestigious institution.

Anupam says he owes his success to his family. “Whatever I have achieved today is because of my parents,” he said, adding, “God should give everybody parents like mine.” He said his family had often found it difficult to make both ends meet while he was pursuing his goal. Anupam’s father Srikrishna Jaiswal has been an auto-rickshaw driver for more than two-and-a-half decades in Patna.

“Our family income was quite low but my father never lost hope. He has been working hard for many years for the family,” Anupam said. This was not the maiden success of Anupam, though. In 2005, he had cracked the joint entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a student of Super 30, a free coaching institute for underprivileged children run by a young mathematician Anand Kumar.

He subsequently completed his first year of the M Sc. integrated course in Physics at IIT-Kharagpur but left it to join Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad. He has since been pursuing a five-year dual course there in mining engineering with MBA. Anupam’s father Jaiswal has been toiling hard for years to fulfill the dreams of his children. He leaves every day at 9 am and returns home as late as 11 pm, so that he could earn sufficient money to help his three children pursue their dreams.

Hardly surprising then, his eldest son Anupam’s success has brought cheers to his family. “God has answered our prayers,” Anupam’s mother Sudha Devi, a housewife, said, adding “When my son called up to say he has been selected for IIM-C, our joy knew no bounds.”

After doing his matriculation from a private school and intermediate from the Hindi medium Guru Gobind Singh College at Patna Sahib in first division, Anupam focused on making it to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

But the road to success was not easy because of resource crunch. Anupam said he started giving tuitions to children to supplement the income of his family. “I used to earn Rs 1,000- Rs 1,200 by giving tuition to the students of classes VI and VII. At times I had doubts whether I would be able to fulfill my dreams. I also thought of becoming a teacher at a coaching institute at one point of time,” the IIT protege said. Anupam had disappointment in store when he failed to qualify in his first attempt at IIT-JEE in 2004. But he got admission in Super 30 as one of the 30 students and went on to crack the IIT-JEE the next year.

Recalling his student, Anand said he was pleased to know that he had made it to the IIM-C. “He was a very talented and hard working boy,” the founder of Super 30 said. “I am sure he will go far in his career.” Anupam’s success has also inspired his younger brother Abhishek and sister Anamika to pursue careers in engineering.

Notwithstanding Anupam’s success, his father Jaiswal does not intend to stop driving his autorickshaw on the roads of Patna. When Anupam informed his father about his latest success, Jaiswal told him to keep focus on his studies. He would keep running the auto-rickshaw for another two years before thinking of retirement, his father said.

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Patna to have 70 new Buses running by next month

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:47 AM PDT

PATNA: A fleet of 70 city buses will start plying on six main city routes within a month, which will bring great relief to the office-goers and students.

These buses would be 32 seaters and also have standing facility like those in metros. These non-AC buses, along with providing easy transportation to Patnaites, would also ease the flow of traffic.

If one gets late and misses the bus, there will be no reason to worry as the buses would be covering the six routes at a gap of every 10 minutes.

The buses would also reduce the cost of transportation in the city. Though fares have not yet been finalized, “they will at least be 75% cheaper than the auto,” Uday Singh Kumawat, state transport secretary, who is also holding the charge of administrator, Bihar State Road Transport Corporation ( BSRTC), told TOI.

At present, regular daily ticket system is on the cards, but the state transport department is working out details about monthly passes for students and office-goers. Not only this, officials are also planning to provide several other facilities and seating arrangements for women.

Kumawat said, “This project is in its final stage. Buses have been bought and registration formalities completed. Even the drivers and conductors have been assigned the job.”

 

 

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Central University to start summer school on math and Stats

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:43 PM PDT

PATNA: The Central University of Bihar (CUB) is going to organize the first-ever ‘summer school’ in mathematics and statistics for undergraduate students from May 30 to June 11 this year.

CUB registrar M Nehal said the summer school is being organized for the second and third year undergraduate students of mathematics and statistics pursuing their studies within the territorial jurisdiction of Bihar.

The summer school, being organized as a part of the CUB’s academic endeavour to provide quality higher education, aims at reaching out to potential talents. It also aims at inspiring and motivating the young minds to take up higher studies in theoretical mathematics and statistics and enhancing and enriching their academic capabilities pertaining to the theoretical, applied and computational aspects of mathematics and statistics.

Students selected for the summer school will not be charged any fee. In addition, the CUB will arrange for their food and accommodation during the period, along with a provision of travel assistance to participants coming from outside Patna, said the registrar.

Seminar postponed: A two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Role of science and technology in developing society”, which was to be organized by Sri Arvind Mahila College on April 20 and 21, has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. It will now be held on July 29 and 30 this year, said the seminar organizing committee secretary, Arun Kumar.

 

 

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