Sunday 10 July 2011

Gates Foundation conducts Study on innovative health in Bihar

Biharprabha News Inbox Edition

Good Morning,
We are here again with some interesting stories in Bihar.

  • Gates Foundation conducts Study on innovative health in Bihar
    DURHAM, NC – A large-scale evaluation of an innovative health care program in the Indian state of Bihar has been awarded a $3 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine (BEST) study will be led by Manoj Mohanan, an assistant professor of public policy and [...] Read it Online
  • Bihar likely to achieve total literacy in coming 20 years
    The literacy rate of Bihar may be the lowest in the country at 63.8 percent, but with the present pace, it is likely that it will achieve total literacy in about two decades like the rest of India, as per a new report. In the last decade, the literacy rate in Bihar has increased by [...] Read it Online
  • The man who made over 500 bridges in Bihar
    The walls were dank, the curtains tattered, chairs broken and toilets that could be smelt from a mile, the whole picture not much different from a second class waiting room at a railway station or worse, a bus terminal. By no stretch of imagination did it look like it was the office of a major [...] Read it Online
  • State works out a new land acquisition model
    PATNA: Witnessing the controversies after land acquisition in various parts of the country and resistance posed by the landowners to all such moves on a minor scale on quite a few occasions back home in Bihar, the state government has become cautious in its bid to acquire land even for public good, including industries. The [...] Read it Online
  • Nalanda University Governing council inspects the proposed site
    Nalanda International University’s governing council members inspected the site for the proposed university at Nalanda and Rajgir on Thursday. They appreciated the initial work on the 467 acres of land given by the Bihar government for the ambitious project. Board chairman Amartya Sen, however, did not go for inspection and stayed back here. The members, [...] Read it Online
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