Tuesday 3 May 2011

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Bihar to have a new IIIT soon

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:34 PM PDT

PATNA: Bihar is likely to have a new information technology (IT) institute soon with the Nitish government giving its consent early this year to the Centre for the latter’s proposal to set up such an institute under public private partnership (PPP) mode in the state.

The Centre had sought the state’s consent before deciding to allocate one IT centre to Bihar, to be opened under a new pan-India plan that fulfils both the national and state-specific needs and demands. One IT institute has been planned for every state and is sought to be christened Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT).

The states concerned had to give their consent to provide around 100 acres of land for the opening of an IIIT. Nitish government has informed the Centre that it has identified around 100 acres of land under Bahadurpur ‘mauja (revenue village)’ in Chandi block of Nalanda district, around 50km from here, for the proposed IIIT in Bihar.

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Bihari community to setup Maa Janki temple at Ahmedabad

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:10 AM PDT

Here comes good news for devotees of Maa Janki (Goddess Sita) in Amdavad. The city is soon going to be the second place in the country to have a temple in her honour.

The city’s Maa Janki Sewa Samiti (MJSS) has taken an initiative to construct a Maa Janki temple in the city.However, the matter is still in the planning stage. “We have proposed such a temple in Ahmedabad and have seen land in a few areas. We are still searching for land in and around the city to build the temple,” said a member of the samiti. MJSS is an association formed by the Bihari community in the city five years ago.

Currently there is only one Janki temple in the country, at Punaura village of Sitamarhi district in Bihar, which is also believed to be the birth place of the goddess. So then, what made the association consider a temple in Gujarat? A member of MJSS said, “In Gujarat, the strength of the Bihari community is in lakhs. Hence, we believe that a temple here would mark our community’s presence in the state.”

The plan of the samiti is to have a huge temple of Sita in the city, which would mean large-scale construction. To meet these expenses, the samiti will invite donations from citizens of this state and others.

“The samiti does not have funds to finance such a huge project. Hence, we are asking for donations from devotees in and around the state,” stated a member of MJSS.

The samiti will discuss the matter in detail in the coming days and will announce its plans on May 1, in its Sneh Milan, a yearly cultural and felicitation programme for the community.

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