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- Bihar Professor gets distinguished IIT alumnus Award
- Grand Heritage museum in the heart of Patna very soon
- Mega Food Park at Bhagalpur from this November
| Bihar Professor gets distinguished IIT alumnus Award Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT Prof. B B Pandey who hails from Bhojpur district of Bihar has received distinguished IIT Kharagpur alumnus award from PM Manmohan Singh for his contribution to innovation in transport infrastructure development. A student of B N College, Patna, the septuagenarian has developed low cost technology for maintenance-free roads for villages and design guidelines for concrete and asphalt roads in India. He has also developed state-of-the-art equipment for testing of roads and highways. |
| Grand Heritage museum in the heart of Patna very soon Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:25 PM PDT Patna: -The Government has already initiated the process of buliding the World Class Museum in the Patna.The Plan is to spread it on to 17 acres of land in the heart the city.The museum will showcase Bihar`s heritage dating to the Buddha and Mahavir. “The theme will be Bihar`s contribution to the history of the world`s civilisation,” Bihar Art and Culture Minister Sukhda Pandey said. “Vaishali here was the first democracy in the world.” According to sources, Government has shortlisted 5 foreign firms,New York-based Studio Art, Tokyo-based Maki and Associates, Boston-based Safadi Art, London-based Foster and Partner, and Oslo-based Snohetta for submitting the proposal for the museum.Each firm will submit a proposal by November and one among them will be selected by year-end. The timeline for completion is four years. The new museum will have the saga equivalent to that of Grand Egyptian Museum (Egypt), Louvre-Lens (France), Guggenheim in Bilbao (Spain) and the the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg (Canada), an official said. Toronto-based Lord Cultural Resources has been selected as the master consultant for the project. Last month, its top offcials had made a conceptual presentation before Nitish Kumar. The firm has been master consultant in about 1,800 such projects in 48 countries, including the National September 11 Memorial and Museum (New York), National Museum (Singapore), King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture at Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) and West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong). |
| Mega Food Park at Bhagalpur from this November Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:17 PM PDT KOLKATA based Keventer Group will start the development of mega food park at Bhagalpur from November in collaboration with the Future Group at an initial investment of Rs 160 crore. “We have prepared a detailed project report after getting formal approval from the government. We are hoping to start construction in November,” Jalan said. At the Bhagalpur food park, Keventer will hold a 51 per cent stake, Future Group will have 36 per cent, Bihar-based entrepreneur Satyajit Kumar Singh will have 6 per cent and farmers will hold the remaining 6 per cent stake, he informed. The food park, spread over 125 acres, will have 38 small and medium-size processing units. The government has decided to establish 15 mega food parks across the country to give a boost to the food processing industry. Keventer will also set up a Rs 200 crore maize processing unit in collaboration with Keenan Technologies of Ireland at the food park. “We will cater to the needs of over 20,000 farmers in Bihar through this food park,” Jalan said. The company is also setting up manufacturing units in Orissa, where it would be a stakeholder. About 40 per cent of the fruit and vegetables grown in the country go waste every year due to the lack of proper storage and transport facilities. The Food Processing Ministry aims to increase processing of perishables to 20 per cent from the existing 6 per cent of the country’s agricultural output, as well as ramp up value addition activities to cover 35 per cent of the total produce, up from 20 per cent at present. It also plans to double the country’s share of global processed food trade to 3 per cent by 2015. |
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