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- Bihar Lokayukta to follow Jan Lokpal Bill
- Bihar on again faces flood fear
- Super 30 woos Japanese people
- Bihar gets 44 percent more rainfall compared to previous years
| Bihar Lokayukta to follow Jan Lokpal Bill Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:08 PM PDT Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that he would use the civil society's Lokpal bill as a model to establish a Lokayukta in the state. |
| Bihar on again faces flood fear Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:06 PM PDT Patna, July 1 (IANS) After two consecutive years of drought, the fear of floods is back in Bihar with incessant rains and heavy water discharge into the Kosi river from Nepal. However, some officials Friday said there was no need to panic. Water levels in the Kosi, Mahananda, Gandak, Bodhi Gandak and Bagmati rivers have increased after heavy rains in the state and the catchment areas of Nepal in last few days. Hundreds of villages in Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, Purnea, Araria, Saharsa, Madhepura and Bagaha districts face threats due to the increased water levels. “Water has already entered dozens of villages in Gopalganj and Muzaffarpur. Rising water level in Kosi river is giving sleepless nights to people,” an official of the water resource department told IANS. He admitted that the water levels of rivers have been rising to dangerous levels at several places. “It is a dangerous sign,” he said. Reports suggests that hundreds of people have been asked to shift to safer places by the authorities. The state government has alerted engineers and district officials and asked them to keep a 24-hour vigil. “All district magistrates and engineers of flood-prone areas have been directed to maintain high vigil and have been told to be ready with necessary equipment and boulders to protect the embankments,” said S.M. Raju, divisional commissioner (Tirhut). However, Bihar Water Resources Development Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary said all embankments were safe and there was no need to panic. He said the eastern Kosi embankment, which had breached in 2008 flooding five districts of northern Bihar, was totally safe. “We are taking care of it, there is no need to panic,” he said. In 2008, over three million people were rendered homeless in Bihar when the Kosi river breached its bank upstream in Nepal and changed course. It was said to be the worst flood in the state in the last 50 years. According to the water resources department, over four lakh cusecs of water has been discharged into the Kosi river since Wednesday after heavy rains in Nepal in the last few days. “Heavy discharge into the Kosi river is not threatening the embankment, it is only a rumour,” an official said. |
| Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:01 PM PDT A free coaching centre, Super 30, which helps children of labourers, tea stall owners and peons in Bihar reach the prestigious IIT engineering institutes, has impressed people in Japan too, its founder Anand Kumar says. He says that in the last few years, Super 30 has became quite popular in Japan after several newspapers, magazines and TV channels covered his inspiring life story and the impact of his ‘Super 30′ school, which has so far helped 236 students from underprivileged families clear the highly competitive IIT-JEE, drawing worldwide attention. Another Japanese described the Super 30 as a “learning experience”. “We realized how crucial education is. We really have to learn from India how to survive in the 21st century,” he said after watching the documentary on Super 30. These are from among responses of dozens of Japanese that were sent to Kumar from Emiko Amagawa, producer of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, to show the kind of praise his efforts have fetched in that country. “Watching Super 30 students at the Ramanujan School of Mathematics make tremendous efforts to become engineers and contribute to the community and the country, I understand why India can and will grow dramatically,” another Japanese said in his response. “We have been receiving phone calls and messages from the audience in Japan. They are very impressed by all that you are doing and the passion of your students,” Emiko Amagawa informed Kumar. “The response of the Japanese after watching a documentary on Super 30 has encouraged me to work hard to provide more opportunity to talented poor students,” Kumar said. He credited the success of Super 30 mainly to his dedicated team of teachers and sincere bunch of students, who toil to achieve their goal. “I am happy with the recognition Super 30 has got. It was started to help talented students from poor families, who would otherwise find it difficult even to continue studies. Such recognition will give me strength to continue,” he added. Two weeks ago, the journalists of NHK came up with a book, “Indo No Shougeki”, published by Japan’s well-known publisher Bhunshun. The book has a chapter exclusively on Kumar’s struggle and the success of his pioneering Super 30 initiative. Priced at 1,800 yen (Rs 1,050), the book describes him as a ‘wind of change’, who is contributing to India’s rapid progress. The book is quite popular among the students of the Japan Management School. “We had seen and read a lot about Super 30 through TV programmes and newspapers. It is amazing and shows how and why India is progressing fast. The answer lies in education and the passion for it,” said Takyuki Doi, a student from Tokyo, who visited Super 30 a few days ago. The book revolves round India’s development story. It says that education is at the root of India’s progress march and people like Anand Kumar are lending strength to it. It says how Kumar, who could not go to Cambridge for want to money, is helping several talented students from the underprivileged families reach out for higher education. Former Miss Japan Norika Fujiwara came to Patna to make a film on Super 30 for Man Union. Japan’s leading newspaper Yomiuri also carried an exhaustive feature on Anand and his Super 30 School. Kumar, who started the Ramanujan School of Mathematics in 1992, founded the Super 30 in 2002. Most of the successful candidates have been from the underprivileged sections of society. They are provided with free food, lodging and free coaching. The students have to pass a competitive test to get into Super 30 and then commit themselves to a year of 16-hour study each day, Kumar said. |
| Bihar gets 44 percent more rainfall compared to previous years Posted: 01 Jul 2011 02:09 AM PDT PATNA: After two consecutive years of drought in 2009 and 2010, Bihar has received more than normal rainfall this monsoon with the weatherman predicting “heavy to very heavy rainfall” at isolated places even in days to come — from July 2 to 8. Even though the monsoon this year is only few days old, Patna has already received 33cm of rainfall as against the annual normal rainfall of 116cm. The showers have also brought down the maximum temperature by 3 degree C while the minimum temperature has registered a downfall of 2 degree C. Gaya received 85mm of rainfall during the last 48 hours and 318mm of rainfall since June 1 while Bhagalpur recorded 153.4mm of rainfall during the last 48 hours. While the maximum temperature fell down by 5 degree C at Gaya, the fall in Bhagalpur was of 3 degree C. “The southwest monsoon has become vigorous in the state under the influence of the cyclonic circulation over Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring areas,” Patna Met director Animesh Chanda said and added Bihar in themonth of June received 44% excess rainfall — 243.5mm against the normal 169.7mm. The rain has come as a boon for the farmers of the state with more than twothirds of the state’s population relying on agriculture for livelihood. Sufficient rain is expected to help them cross the foodgrain production target of 16 million tonne this year, sources in the agriculture department said. In 2010, the state government had declared all the 38 districts drought affected. In 2009, 26 districts had been declared drought affected. While the state received 682.6mm of rainfall in 2010, the year 2009 saw 871.3mm of raifall. |
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