Friday, 20 May 2011

Bihar News, Latest News from Bihar, News of Bihar, Biharprabha News

Bihar News, Latest News from Bihar, News of Bihar, Biharprabha News

Trees planted for every born girl child in this village of Bihar

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:39 PM PDT

Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it’s a privilege to be a girl.

Being a girl child is a privilege in Dhahra village of Bhagalpur, Bihar. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch in Bhagalpur, with over 20,000 mango trees in and around the village. The male: female sex ratio is also the best in the region.

Villager of Dhahra Nirmala Devi says, “There are two benefits of planting trees. One, we sell the fruits of the tree to make money for the girl's marriage and secondly it help environment.”

For generations in India, girl children have been treated as incarnations of Goddess Lakshmi, known as the goddess of wealth. All those mango trees have added to the village's prosperity.

Villager Vijay singh says, “It’s a tradition of planting ten trees at the birth of girl child.”

Dhahra has caught the attention of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who planted a tree himself, and ensured a girls’ school has been built. Treating the girl child as god’s blessing & trees as bank deposits is a message that has now fast spread to other parts of the state as well.

The biggest celebration in this remote village of Bihar begins when a girl child is born. The birth of each girl child is marked with the plantation of minimum 10 mango trees, which not only adds to the greenery around and to their family income but it also comes very handy when it’s the time to marry these girls.

 

Govt to give 777 INR for agricultural purposes

Posted: 20 May 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Patna, (PTI) Bihar government today sanctioned Rs 777.52 crore for promotion of agriculture and allied activities in the state in 2011-12.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, principal secretary (cabinet coordination and secretariat) Ravikant told reporters here.
The fund under National Agriculture Development Project comprising the central grant of Rs 711.68 crore and the state”s contribution of Rs 65.84 crore would be used for agricultural and allies activities during the year, he said.
The money would be used for increasing paddy production, promotion of scientific techniques for augmenting production, promotion of hybrid and certified seeds and related activities, Ravikant said.
In addition, the cabinet also agreed to a proposal by a private company to set up a sugar mill with 2500 TCD (tonne sugarcane crushed per day) and a 5 MW captive co-generation power plant at an estimated cost of Rs 129.33 crore at Satha Nauadih in Paharpur block of the district, he added

Police rescues depressed siblings an Patna

Posted: 20 May 2011 05:38 AM PDT

In a bizarre incident, a brother and sister duo, who locked themselves up in their home for several weeks after being struck by a series of family tragedies, were rescued by social workers and the Bihar police here on Monday night in a state of acute depression and severe malnutrition. Babu (32) and his sister Sujata (28), who once worked as a journalist with a local daily, were rescued by an NGO Prayas with the help of the Patna police.

Ms. Sujata, who was discovered in a state of acute depression, was admitted to a mental health hospital, while Mr. Babu was taken to the Patna Medical College and Hospital for further treatment.

The case is eerily similar to the Noida incident last month involving the rescue of two sisters who had closeted themselves without food and water for over six months.

According to the police, Mr. Babu and Ms. Sujata were in a state of extreme malnourishment when they were finally discovered lying with their hands tied at their residence in Shivpuri here.

Senior Superintendent of Police Alok Kumar said the incident was the first case of its kind in Patna.

Suman Lal, who heads the NGO Prayas and was instrumental in calling attention to the siblings’ death-like condition, said Mr. Babu and Ms. Sujata went into a self-imposed isolation after a series of family tragedies.

Their father, Braj Kishore Singh, said to be an additional district magistrate, deserted the family two decades ago. Their mother disappeared a few years ago and was never traced, and this was followed by the death of the siblings’ younger brother, two years ago.

Mr. Babu and Ms. Sujata have since gone without food and water for weeks and have been surviving on biscuits and snacks provided by neighbours, Mr. Kumar said.

Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has directed officials to take proper care of the siblings and ordered a probe.

 

CM to inaugurate first floating Police Station

Posted: 20 May 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Patna,Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will inaugurate Bihar’s first River Patrolling Police Station (RPPS) on the banks of the Ganges near Maujipur village under Fatuha police station in Patna district today on May 20. The first-ever RPPS has been built at a cost of Rs 56 lakh in just two months, state police headquarters sources said. Chief Minister would also inaugurate 131 police building, including model police stations and newly constructed police stations the same day. Though the state government identified 18 places on the banks of important rivers for setting up of RPPS in Bihar, initially, it would start functioning at five places covering a long stretch of the Ganges, Kosi and Gandak rivers. The RPPSs would be set up at Patna rural (Fatuha), Naugachhia, Bagaha, Supaul and Darbhanga. The RPPSs, to be set up either on specialised motorboats or boats, would ply on the waves throughout their jurisdiction, anchor in diaras or riverbanks as per the need and also coordinate with their police outposts established on important ghats, sources said. Smuggling and illegal ferrying of goods and passengers, boat capsize, drowning of indivduals or management of festivals on the riverbanks would come under the purview of RPPS, they said. Each RPPS would have 45 armed police personnel including sub-inspectors, assistant sub-inspectors, constables and other technical staff like driver, wireless operator and cleaner, sources said.

East Champaran to get a new Sugar mill soon

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:35 PM PDT

PATNA: The state cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to the proposal to set up a sugar mill with a capacity of 2500 TCD along with a 5MW cogeneration plant at cost of Rs 129.33 crore at Satha in East Champaran district. The mill would be set up by M/s Prasad Refrigeration and Agro Industries Pvt Limited and would be expandable to 5000 TCD capacity.

In another important decision, the cabinet gave its approval to Rs. 777.52-crore National Agriculture Development Scheme and sanctioned a sum of Rs. 65.84 crore as state share for the same. The fund will be utilized for production of certified seeds, distribute agricultural equipment and horticulture development in the state, said cabinet secretary Ravikant while briefing newsmen after the cabinet meeting.

The state cabinet okayed a proposal to allow economy class air fare for one of the PAs and PSs accompanying cabinet ministers travelling to other states. Earlier, this entitlement was not allowed.

The cabinet also approved the draft of Bihar Underground Pipeline Bill, 2011. According to this bill, the farmers or landowners will be given 20% of the compensation amount fixed for the category of the land concerned. However; the landowners will not be allowed to construct pucca structure, dig ponds or plant orchards on the land earmarked for laying underground pipelines, said Ravikant.
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