Ahmedabad: according to reports in the Ahmedabad press, a detailed plan for urban development in Bihar is being formulated at the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. Faced with the assignment of preparing town planning schemes for the city of Patna, the experts at CEPT discovered, according to Utpal Sharma, dean, faculty of planning and…Continue Reading…

PATNA: The state government has geared up to formulate its new IT policy, to develop and strengthen the technical institutions in the state. This was announced by deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi while inaugurating the Technika-11 organized by Birla Institute of Technology, Patna campus, on Friday. Modi also urged the budding technocrats to work for the…Continue Reading…

PATNA: Once notorious for bad roads, Bihar now boasts of having roads like runways. Claiming this in the assembly on Thursday, rural works department (RWD) minister Bhim Singh referred to a newspaper report saying a small aircraft landed on the road in Rohtas district on February 24, got refuelled at a roadside petrol pump and took…Continue Reading…

Bihar will become a power surplus state by generating over 5000 MW from various sources by 2015. State Energy minister Mr Vijendra Yadav said that the energy scenario in the state was bound to improve soon with a number of power projects being at various stages of construction from which over 5,000 MW will come…Continue Reading…

Patna, Mar 10 (PTI) Bihar government has so far made available online the assets” details of over 85,000 of the 4.75 lakh government officials, first of its kind in India, official sources said today. “Details of assets of over 85,000 government officials can now be seen,” state General Administration department sources said and described it…Continue Reading…

In an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18’s Ekta Batra and Reema Tendulkar, Prem Shankar, COO of Ramco Industries says the contributions from the company’s CAPEX plans will come on-stream in FY12. “A new fibre cement sheet plant in Bihar and a new plant in Sri Lanka, together will take us to the revenue of Rs 550 crore…Continue Reading…

PATNA: Of late, the sale of fast moving consumer goods ( FMCG) has significantly increased in Bihar. The growth is propelled by growing purchasing power of people across the state. “The year 2010 saw Bihar witness a 37% growth in the sale of our products, making it one of the fastest growing states in eastern…Continue Reading…

Complimenting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for trying to replicate the success of Bihar government in implementing conditional cash transfers, JD (U) MP N K Singh on Thursday said it was important that best practices developed within the country are not only encouraged but also scaled up so as to benefit larger number of people. Participating…Continue Reading…