Friday, 1 April 2011

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The Mahavir Mandir Trust to open Sant Kabir Heart Hospital at Muzaffarpur

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:51 PM PDT

PATNA: The Mahavir Mandir Trust will open Sant Kabir Heart Hospital at Muzaffarpur at a cost of Rs 5 crore and install six life-size statues depicting the birth of Sita opposite Sitamarhi railway station at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.

These and other decisions were made in the trust s annual budget of over Rs 55.14 crore which was passed for the temple and four hospitals run under its aegis. Trust secretary Kishore Kunal said this is the second highest budget of a temple in north India, next to Vaishno Devi shrine. Ironically, the famous Deoghar temple, which was earlier the biggest pilgrim centre of Bihar, now in Jharkhand, never touched even Rs 40 lakh per annum.

The budget was passed at a meeting chaired by Justice (retd) B N Agrawal. It will construct a separate building for its Netralaya on a plot in Kadamkuan, which was earlier illegally occupied by the men of Asaram Bapu, at a cost of Rs 5 crore, said Kunal on Thursday.

Kunal said the trust has earmarked Rs 50 lakh for the treatment of cancer patients and special care will be taken of all cancer patients up to the age of 18. In addition, Rs 20 lakh will be spent on the treatment of patients suffering from other diseases.

The trust has sanctioned Rs 2 lakh for Shravan Kumar awards for those who serve their parents with devotion, Rs 1.50 crore for Mahavir Vatsalya Aspatal for establishing an ICU for heart patients and Rs 3 lakh for the uplift of downtrodden sections of the society.

The budget for Cancer Sansthan has been pegged at Rs 27.77 crore, of Arogya Sansthan at |Rs 6.82 crore and of Vatsalya Aspatal at Rs 5.20 crore. The Cancer Sansthan will also get a grant of Rs 5 crore from Bihar government, which will be spent on additional advanced accessories of the linear accelerator machine installed in the hospital at a cost of Rs 8 crore recently.

Regarding the income of the trust, Kunal said Rs 1.40 crore is expected from offerings, Rs 1.15 crore from rituals, Rs 2.35 crore from Naivedyam (laddoos), Rs 10 lakh from kheer and Rs 20 lakh from donations.

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George Orwell’s birthplace faces ownership dispute

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:53 AM PDT

MOTIHARI: The birthplace of famous British author, George Orwell, is in the eye of a storm. While Brajnandan Rai, a schoolteacher in Motihari town, claims that the house had been registered in his name, Prakash Asthana, chairman of Motihari Nagar Parisad, said a probe revealed that the building in Mascot Locality where Orwell was born is registered with the parishad in the name of the hostel superintendent of Gopal Sah High School since 1970.

Asthana said Rai is a teacher in Gopalsah High School and his holding no. 336 is actually that of his residence at Gandhinagar locality.

Nagar parishad executive officer Rajendra Mandal said he would examine under what circumstances the holding number of the house where Orwell was born was allotted to the schoolteacher.

Orwell, whose book Animal Farm’ made him stand out among the great novelists, was born in Motihari on June 25, 1903. His father R W Blair was deputy magistrate in-charge of a British-owned opium warehouse. Orwell was taken to England in 1904 by his mother Ida Mabel Blair for proper education.

After 108 years of George Orwell’s birth, the Bihar government declared his birthplace as a protected site and heritage centre under the Bihar Ancient Monument (Protection) Act, 1976. Chief minister Nitish Kumar had allocated Rs 29 lakh for the construction of a fence around the protected site spread over 2.48 acres at Mascot locality. Fencing work around the decrepit tiled house in which Orwell was born has already been completed.

The house located on a 2.48 acre land was leased out by the state government to Gopal Sah High School for hundred years. The lease period has already expired. Thereafter, the government took possession of the land and handed it over to PWD, Motihari, for its godown. Despite this, Rai who teaches English at Gopal Sah High School, has been occupying the house for the last 15 years.

Rai said he had not been asked by anyone to vacate the house though the BDO, SDO and DM have visited this site many times. The district magistrate was not available for comment.

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Bihar schools uses Wifi,Skype for learning

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:48 AM PDT

Remember Nalanda? The University was center of higher learning and one of the world's first residential universities. Well, a lot has changed in Bihar since then and the change has mostly been for bad (or worse).

But entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs and Chandrakant Singh, a M.Tech from IIT Bombay has started 'Chaitanya Gurukul Trust' that is unique in many ways.

Present in Chamanpura village (where there is no electricity), the school has 45 rooms across 2 Wi-Fi enabled floors, 4 volleyball courts, 4 badminton courts and a cricket pitch (swimming pool is under construction) – i.e. a world class infrastructure.

Chaitanya SchoolChaitanya School

Since the village still doesn't have electricity, the computers are run on power generators and teachers are selected from different parts of the state. Remote teachers use Skype for teaching and basic tuition fee is Rs 300 for Class I and increases by Rs 100 for every class upward.

Why do this?

One of the Objectives of the school is

To provide world class quality education in Bihar to prevent brain-drain from and at the same time stop the out flow of money from Bihar to different states.

Chandrakant Singh started thinking about this when MNS stared their anti-Bihar campaign in Mumbai

"I was greatly disturbed, and wanted to arrest the migration of students from Bihar, in my small way.

The first instinct was to get in touch with the principal of the primary government school in Chamanpura with an offer to fund six students who would pass a scholarship test. But the principal never conducted the test.

Singh then sought the advice of Surya Narayan, dean of IIT, Bombay, who suggested that he make a business plan for a revenue-generating, self-sustaining model instead of taking the charity route. Singh then wrote a 100-page plan — a blueprint for a Rs 30-crore campus that would be completed over 10 years, including a school, an engineering college and an R&D centre. He e-mailed the plan to 3,000 friends, eight of whom agreed to fund it. With these eight and himself, Singh formed the Chaitnaya Gurukul Trust.

Inspiring and daring!

The point to be noted here is that Chandrakant Singh wrote a business plan for the entire setup and didn't live on charity – that's what makes the cut.

 

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Bihar to setup Internet Ministry-First ever in the World

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT

Bihar is on a growth path and has recently been on an early adopter curve – the state earlier announced using 'Android' Phones to monitor road construction from district headquarters and now the state plans to create a new cabinet position for an Internet Minister.

While the exact role of Internet Ministry is not yet known, it is expected that the position will be located in Nalanda district, the erstwhile center of higher learning.

In a press conference, a state official suggested that the plans for creating an exclusive ministry is in place and details would be made public after a final approval from the governor of Bihar. He did mention that the ministry's work would mostly revolve around getting Bihar up on the broadband connectivity map of the world.

Sharing an aspirational target of getting 100% boradband connectivity in all villages of Bihar by end this year, he said that, the state cannot depend on central govt.'s plans which keep getting delayed. The Internet ministry will be also looking at strict regulation of ISPs servicing in the state and would have a centralized mechanism to check any service disruption. He suggested that regulations around possible penalties on breaching SLA would also be put in place with a fine upto 3X of subscription amount.

One other important thing mentioned was that the broadband definition would be chnaged for ISPs in Bihar from 256Kbps to 2Mbps.

Hope this movement from Bihar inspires the other states as well. What's your opinion?

 

 

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