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Bihar big leap towards power - Navi nagar power plant
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PATNA: Bihar has attempted a big leap today towards self-sufficiency in power generation," said chief minister Nitish Kumar after he broke a coconut and laid the stone of a 1980MW thermal power project at Shivanpur in Aurangabad district on Saturday.
The Nabinagar Power Generating Company Pvt Ltd project, a joint venture of NTPC and Bihar State Electricity Board, is to be completed at an estimated cost of Rs 12,965 crore. It will have three units with capacity to generate 660MW each in the first phase likely to be commissioned by 2015. The mega project requires 2,833 acres of land at the site, including 1,872 acres of private land.
Addressing a gathering on the occasion, the CM referred to the land acquisition hiccups that sort of delayed work on the project and said each displaced person would be rehabilitated and the farmers whose land has been acquired would get compensation at the rate of Rs 21 lakh per acre. The CM said by December 31, 2009, and the company received necessary sanction from different ministries. But the land acquisition process faced stumbling blocks as the issues raised by the affected farmers were not understood. "During my Seva Yatra in Aurangabad, I paid a surprise visit to the region and had a first-hand feel of the problems the farmers foresaw," he said and added he later sent JD-U leader Dr L B Singh to talk to the farmers and invite them for talks to Patna. After the completion of the first phase, the CM said, two more units of 660MW each would be installed for which a memorandum of understanding had already been signed with NTPC.
"Bihar will get 70% of the power generated at this thermal station," he said and added more such projects would be initiated provided there was availability of land. "We should take a pledge to extend full cooperation to power generation in the state and write a new history of Bihar's progress. More power generation will bring jobs, factories and prosperity," he said and asked the NTPC to complete the project in time.
TOI - 29 Feb 2012
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Bihari babus rule the roost at power centre
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In a first, Bihari babus are virtually dominating the corridors of power in New Delhi. Nine Biharcadre IAS officers are heading as many crucial ministries, including home, defence, road transport and highways and rural development. Six IAS officers are serving as additional secretaries, while 17 others are in the rank of joint secretaries.
On Thursday, Shashikant Sharma took over as the defence secretary. Sharma, a 1976-batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, had earlier served as DG in the defence ministry.
Raj Kumar Singh, a 1975-batch officer of Bihar cadre, recently joined as the Union home secretary. Singh has also served in key positions such as road construction department, disaster management and home secretary during his tenure in Bihar. Three other IAS officers of the 1975 batch heading crucial departments are B K Sinha (rural development), Navin Kumar (urban development) and A K Upadhyay (road transport& highways).
The senior most 1972-batch Bihar-cadre IAS officer, M N Prasad, is secretary in the PMO while 1974 batch officer A N P Sinha is heading Panchayati Raj department. Another officer, P K Basu (1976), is holding the charge of director, agriculture and cooperatives.
“Currently, Bihari babus are dominating the top level at the Centre after a long time. It is a matter of pride for Bihar,” said a senior IAS officer. Bihar cadre officers such as N K Sinha, B Bhamathi, B B Srivastava and Arbind Prasad are additional secretaries in various departments. Three officers — Arbind Prasad, S P Seth and Arunish Chawala — are posted in Planning Commission.
The list of Bihari officers serving as joint secretaries is long. As many as 17 IAS officers, including Arun Jha (pharmaceuticals), R K Mahajan (coal), Chaitanya Prasad (industrial policy), K K Pathak (home), Bhanu Pratap Sharma (minorities), Sunil K Singh (housing and urban poverty), Rashmi Verma and Subhash Sharma (both defence production) and Girish Shankar (food and public distribution) are at key decision-making positions.
BIHARI BABUS
Nine Bihar-cadre IAS officers are heading crucial ministries. Six IAS officers from the state are serving as additional secretaries, while 17 others are in the rank of joint secretaries
SOME OF THE TOP BABUS ARE
Shashikant Sharma (def secy) Raj Kumar Singh (Home secy) B K Sinha (rural development) Navin Kumar (urban devpt) A K Upadhyay (road transport) M N Prasad (secretary, PMO) ANP Sinha (Panchayati Raj) P K Basu (agri & cooperatives) Arbind Prasad, SP Seth and A Chawala(Plan panel)
JOINT SECRETARIES
Arun Jha (pharmaceuticals), R K Mahajan (coal), Chaitanya Prasad (industrial policy), K K Pathak (home), Bhanu Pratap Sharma (minorities), Sunil K Singh (housing and urban poverty),
Rashmi Verma and Subhash Sharma (both defence production) and Girish Shankar (food and public distribution)
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Adanis propose to invest Rs 7K crore in Bihar
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PATNA: Gujarat-based first generation dollar billionaire Gautam Adani and top honchos of his group companies met chief minister Nitish Kumar here on Thursday with proposals to make an investment of Rs 7,000 crore in Bihar. The group firm, Adani Power Limited, made a power-point presentation to the chief minister.
Those who called on the chief minister were the Adani group chairman Gautam Adani, director of Mundra Port Rajiv Ranjan Sinha and Adani Power CEO Ravi Sharma.
"We have come here with mega investment proposal," said Adani and added that he was interested in setting up a 1320MW (660MWX2) power plant and develop coal mines with an investment of Rs 7,000 crore. The projects will generate over 5,000 jobs for the locals. The scenario in Bihar has changed, attracting them to come up with investment proposals, they said.
The CM was told that the Adani Group has three companies listed on the stock market with a combined market capitalization of Rs 1.25 lakh crore. Gautam Adani said his company has made huge investments in power generation, logistics, coal mining and trading, city gas distribution, agriculture business and food processing sectors. The company has also started coal mining business in Australia.
Nitish expressed happiness that more and more private investors were showing interest in Bihar and said all investment proposals were welcome. Energy minister Bijendra Yadav and top state officials were present.
The CM directed the officials to study the proposals put forward by the group and asked the chief secretary to hold talks with the group regarding power supply from Adani Power Limited.
27 May 2011 (TOI)
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Speakers recall swami Sahajanand
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Speakers at a function organised at Shri Krishna Memorial ( SKM) Hall to celebrate the birth anniversary of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati insisted that it was only the NDA governments at the Centre and state which has taken concrete steps to commemorate him. The state unit of the BJP organised the function.
The speakers also recalled the issuance of postal stamp to commemorate him when Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government was at the Centre. Besides, under the Vajpayee government, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) also constituted an award in his name to honour agriculture scientists. Besides, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in the state installed a life-size statue of Saraswati at Shri Krishna Nagar Park at Patna.
Born in Uttar Pradesh, Saraswati, among other things, pioneered a kisan andolan in the 1930s in Bihar that sought abolition of zamindari system and tenancy reforms. It formed a backdrop to the final abolition of zamindari system and the start of land reforms from the 1950s. He was also well versed in the country s scriptures, and toured across north India to sow seeds of peasant agitations.
Among the speakers who recalled the contributions made by Saraswati in glowing terms were BJP s Bihar co-incharge Dharmendra Pradhan and party national organisation secretary Nagendra, who is also in charge of the affairs of the state BJP. Besides, the party MPs, Shatrughan Sinha, Radha Mohan Singh and Nikhil Kumar Choudhary, along with state chief C P Thakur, also recalled the impact he had left on society. Senior most state BJP leader Kailashpati Mishra was also present.
Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, as the chief guest on the occasion, referred to the work being done by the NDA government in the state to benefit the farmers and protect their interests. It included constitution of a farmers commission to give recommendations for policy framing.
He said that the government itself has been doing work for the development of agriculture sector, including the fishery, poultry and other activities, as per its roadmap that was prepared in consultation with the farmers and agriculture experts. In fact, agriculture was on the priority map of the state government and attention was being also paid to augment irrigation potential of the state, he added.
Among the ministers who highlighted the contributions of Saraswati, apart from referring to the performance of their departments, were health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav and urban development minister Prem Kumar.
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Infosys likely to set up centre in Bihar
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Information technology giant Infosys is likely to set up its first software development centre in Bihar and the state government is planning to provide it with land, an official said Sunday.
"Infosys officials approached the state government for land to set up its centre. The government is considering to provide land at Bihta near Patna ," an official in the chief minister's office told.
Officials said it was still in an early stage and will be decided either by the end of March or April.
The government has decided to develop an IT park in Bihta, 30 km from Patna. Bihta is well-connected by road and rail.
According to officials, Infosys has shown keen interest for a plot near Bihta as it has emerged as the fast growing area after the state government acquired hundreds of acres for setting up IIT campus, Patna.
"IT giant Infosys is to set up its first centre in Bihar. It is a big news for Bihar, which has recorded high growth in the last few years," an IT department official said here.
However, government officials said it was not clear how much investment Infosys will make in Bihar.
Economic Times - 7 March 2011
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Massive transfers of IPS & IAS officers In Bihar
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As part of its first massive administrative reshuffle, the NDA-II government shuffled as many as 99 IPS officers, right from additional SP to additional DG rank, on Thursday. The government also promoted two IGs of the 1983 batch to ADG rank and 10 SPs of 1996 batch to DIG rank. SRP (Jamalpur) Alok Kumar, who is on deputation from Jammu & Kashmir, became the new Patna SSP in place of B S Meena who, on promotion, became DIG (Muzaffarpur).
The ADG (headquarters)Pramod Kumar Thakur, will go to vigilance bureau in the same capacity which was lying vacant after the departure of Anil Sinha on central deputation. Thakur will be replaced by ADG (CID) Rajvardhan Sharma.
ADG (special branch) Amrik Singh Nimbran will hold the additional charge of CID. ADG (railway) Shafi Alam goes to State Human Rights Commission in the same capacity In place of RC Sinha, who has been shifted to civil defence.
IG (railways) S K Bhardwaj, on promotion, has been made ADG (rail) while IG (sports authority) Ashok Seth has been elevated to ADG rank at the same place. R K Mishra, after return from CISF, has been made IG (Darbhanga zone), replacing Vinay Kumar who is now IG (railway).
Two DIGs J S Gangwar (DIG, personnel) and Jitendra Kumar (DIG, Magadh range) have been elevated to IG rank. Gangwar is the new IG (headquarters) in place of Rajesh Ranjan who became IG (modernisation), while Jitendra Kumar will take the charge of IG (BMP) with additional charge of IG (security).
IG (BMP) Arvind Pandey has been made IG (weaker sections). IG (civil defence) Raghuvansh Prasad Yadav has been shifted to technical service and wireless.
Bettiah range DIG Anupama Nirlekar will take charge as DIG (personnel) while DIG (Darbhanga) Baldeo Prasad has been brought to CID in place of Umesh Kumar, who is now DIG (Magadh range). DIG (Bhagalpur) Shailesh Kumar Singh will be the new DIG (BMP), northern region, a post which was lying vacant. DIG (Muzaffarpur) Pankaj Darad will replace Nirlekar in Bettiah while DIG (Munger) Sharukh Majid goes to technical services and wireless in the same capacity. Saran DIG Sunil Kumar will be the new DIG (BMP), central range, while DIG (Saharsa) S N Jha stands transferred to cooperative cell.
SSP (Muzaffarpur) Sunil Kumar on promotion became DIG (Saran) wile SP (security) Amit Kumar Jain will be the new DIG (Bhagalpur). Again, SP (Khagaria) Sudhanshu Kumar, on promotion, has been made DIG (Saharsa) while SP (Purnia) N H Khan became DIG (Darbhanga).
SP (Jamui) Kamal Kishore Singh on promotion becomes DIG (anti dacoity) while his batchmate SP (Motihari) on elevation became DIG (special branch). Anil Kishore Yadav, who is SP (Bhojpur) became DIG (Munger range) while SP (Nawada) G P Sinha went to DIG (state crime record bureau-SCRB). Commandant BMP-4, Dumraon, Ashok Kumar Singh, on promotion has been made DIG (Electricity Board).
Commandant BMP-8, Begusarai, Kapileshwar Manjhi has been shifted to State Crime Record Bureau in the same capacity, while SP (Araria) Vinod Kumar has been relieved for Assam. Again, SP (Sheohar) Vinod Kumar has been made SP (State human rights commission) while SP (Gaya) Amit Lodha has been made SP (Purnia). SP (Supaul) Nagendra Prasad Singh will be the new commandant BMP-4. SP (rail), Muzaffarpur, Awdhesh Sharma goes to economic offences wing (EOW) and cyber crime, while principal, Constable Training School (Nathnagar), Ram Narain Singh, becomes SP (Jamui).
SP (vigilance) Vimal Kumar is the new SP (Arwal) while SP (Darbhanga) M R Nayak goest to Bhojpur. Commandant, BMP-16, Umshankar Sudhanshu has been made SP (Kaimur) in place of Pradip Kumar, who has been shifted to SP (B) in special branch. SP (Samastipur) Anwar Hussain will be the new SP (special security guards) while SP (SCRB) Satish Kumar has been made commandant, BMP-8.
SP (Jehanabad) Ganesh Kumar will go to Motihari replacing Parasnath, while SP (EOW and cybercrime) Chaurasia Chandrasekhar Azad will be the new SP (Lakhisarai) in place of R K Mishra, who has been transferred to Kishanganj. SP (Rohtas) Vikas Vaibhav will be SSP (Darbhanga) while SP (Saharsa) Rajesh Kumar has been made SSP (Muzaffarpur). SP (Begusarai) Vinay Kumar becomes the SSP (Gaya).
City SP (Patna) Manu Maharaj will be the new SP (Rohtas) while SP (Katihar) P Kannan goest to Munger in place of M Sunil, who has been brought to police headquarters without assignment. SP (rural) Kshatranil Singh becomes SP (Begusarai) while AIG (wireless) Garima Mallik will be SP (Araria). SP (Vaishali) Sujit Kumar has been shifted to Katihar while SP (Kishanganj) Pankaj Kumar Raj is now SP (Nawada).
SP (Bagaha) Siddhartha Mohan Jain goes to Vaishali in the same capacity while SP (special branch) Anusuiya Rana Singh has been made commandant (Mahila battalion). SP (rail), Katihar, S Premlatha becomes SRP (Jamalpur) while ASP (Jamalpur) Lande Shivdeep Vaman Rao will be the new City SP of Patna.
City SP (Gaya) Daljit Singh is new SP (Samastipur) while SP (Naugachhia) Vivek Kumar is SP (rural), Patna. Commandant BMP-1 Chandrika Prasad has been made SP (Jehanabad) while SP (Arwal) Vinod Kumar-2 goes to Supaul. SP (cooperative ) Mithu Prasad is the new SP (Khagaria) while City SP (Bhagalpur) Mohd Rehman has been shifted and made SP (Saharsa). SP (STF) P K Sinha will be new SP (Sheohar) wile Commandant, BMP-5, Suresh Prasad Chowdhary, will be SP (rail) Patna.
SP (electricity board vigilance) Sukan Paswan has been transferred to SP (rail), Katihar, while City SP (Muzaffarpur) Anil Kumar Singh will be SP (Bagaha). Staff officer of zonal IG, Muzaffarpur, Gariban Ram, will now be staff officer of IG (Patna).
DSP (Madhubani) Upendra Prasad Singh on promotion will be City SP (Muzaffarpur), while SDPO (Masaurhi) Vijay Kumar Verma is the new City SP (Bhagalpur). DSP (SB) Kumr Ekley has been made City SP (Darbhanga) while DSP (vigilance) Ratna Mani Sanjiv has been made City SP (Gaya).
DSP, Aurangabad, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, on elevation becomes SP, STF, while DSP, Saharsa, Dheeraj Kumar, goes to Naugachia as SP. SDP, Forbesganj, Sheokumar Jha, will be SP, railway, Muzaffarpur while SDPO, Mohania, Pankaj Sinha, will be new commandant, BMP-16. SDPO, Balia, Anand Kumar Singh, has been made Commandant, BMP-1 while SDPO, Saharsa, Sridhar Mandal, on promotion has been made Commandant, BMP-15. SDPO, Patna City, Lallan Mohan Prasad, is Commandant, BMP-5, while DSP( in office of IG, Patna Zone) Sunil Kumar has been made AIG (Q). DSP, Gaya, Sudhir Kumar Singh, will be another SP, STF while DSP, Vigilance Bureau, Shekhar Kumar, has been made Commandant, Homeguards.
DSP(office of range DIG , Patna), Rajesh Tripathy, has been made Commandant, MMP, Ara while DSP, Vigilance Bureau, P N Mishra, has been made Commandant, BMP-10. DSP, Bhagalpur, Parvez Akhtar is SP, Vigilance Bureau, while DSP, Katihar, Rajiv Ranjan, on promotion becomes additional SP, Katihar. DSP, CID, Uma Shankar Prasad, becomes Staff Officer, Zonal IG, Muzaffarpur, while DSP, Pupri, Shafiul Haq,has been made additional SP, Gaya. DSP, police academy, Kumar Amar Singh, becomes additional SP, Rohtas, while DSP, CTS, Nathnagar, Pramod Kumar Singh becomes Principal at the same place. DSP, CID, Mohammad Hasnain, becomes additional SP, Sitamarhi while DSP, Purnia, Vinod Kumar -3 , will be the additional SP, Purnia. DSP, CID, Abhay Kumar Lal becomes additional SP, Bihar Police Academy, while ADC to governor, Ajay Kumar Mishra, has been relieved of the charge of Commandant, BMP-10.
TOI - Feb'11
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Super 30 among top 4 invotative School in world
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Newsweek, magazine of the US has acknowledged mathematician Anand Kumar's "Super-30" programme of grooming the underprivileged youths to crack the IIT-JEE in the list of four most innovative schools in the world.
Anand Kumar had started the "Super-30" from his Ramanujam School of Mathematics in 2002 with the help of his brother Pranav Kumar to groom and mentor the underprivileged youths free of cost and enable them to compete the IIT-JEE.
The achievement of "Super-30" over the last three years with regard to all its 30 students cracking the IIT-JEE had drawn worldwide attention and Time Magazine, US, had acclaimed it, according to Anand Kumar.
While pointing out that the entrance test for IIT is supposed to be the toughest, Newsweek" recorded Super-30's as "incredible".
Earlier, "Time Magazine" had selected "Super-30" in the list of Best of Asia, 2010. The Discovery channel had broadcast an hour-long programme on "Super-30", while actress and Miss Japan, Norika Fujiwara, had visited Patna to make a documentary on "Super-30".
Vijay - 19 Sept 2010
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Akhilesh Pd Singh quits RJD to join Congress
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The RJD suffered a severe jolt on Saturday when its senior leader and former Union minister of state Akhilesh Prasad Singh resigned from the primary membership of the party.
A day earlier, party's Maharajganj MP Uma Shankar Prasad Singh shocked the RJD by resigning from its parliamentary board.
"A number of people are not feeling comfortable in the party," said Ak-hilesh, who was sulking after the RJD entered into an alliance with the LJP for the ensuing state assembly election.
Speaking to mediapersons on Saturday, the former MP from Motihari said that he had remained loyal to RJD chief Lalu Prasad for over two decades but he is unhappy over the RJD's seat-sharing arrangement with the LJP and that he had repeatedly urged Lalu to undo the wrong but he did not listen to him.
He alleged that the alliance has come as a major setback to party workers of East Champaran district, particularly the Muslim workers, as most of the seats have been surrendered to the LJP in the district. "Under the cir-cumstances, I had no option but to quit the party with a heavy heart," he said.
Singh said he was in touch with Congress leaders and had even spoken to AICC president Sonia Gandhi and party's Bihar in-charge Mukul Wasnik. "I have made up my mind to join the Congress," he said. Asked when he would join, he said that will be decided by the Congress.
Lalu tried to keep Akhilesh in good humour and even visited his house in Delhi and in Patna to mollify him. "When we met, I raised the issues but did not get any satisfactory reply," Akhilesh said.
Akhilesh was accompanied by a number of supporters when he announced his resignation from the party. They too quit the party.
Maharajganj MP Uma Shankar Singh, one of the four RJD MPs in the Lok Sabha, had announced his resignation from the party's parliamentary board of which he was appointed a member only a day ago.
He is angry over the induction of former JD(U) MP Prabhunath Singh in the RJD. However, he said he was least bothered about who is coming and who is going.
"I don't care if the man whom I forced to lick the dust joins the RJD," said Singh, who had defeated Prabhunath in Maharajganj in the last Lok Sabha election.
He said there was no justification in remaining a member of the parliamen-tary board when all the decisions are taken by Lalu.
Vijay - 19 Sept 2010
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US power major to invest in Bihar
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Bringing good news to power crisis-plagued Bihar after majority of thermal power units fell on the Jharkhand side after the bifurcation in November 2000, US energy major AES Corporation has evinced interest in setting up a thermal power plant in the state.
The AES corporation has submitted a proposal to State Industrial Promotion Board (SIPB) for setting up the thermal power plant at Jagidishpur in Bhagalpur district, Principal Energy Secretary Ravikant said.
He said AES (India [ Images ]) Private Limited has submitted a letter of 'expression of interest' (EOI) to the SIPB for setting up the plant with an investment of around Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion).
In its offer letter to the SIPB, the US energy giant said that if the company was allowed to set up its power generating unit, the state government could expect foreign direct investment (FDI) of up to $500 million.
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RJD threatens defamation against Bihar deputy CM
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Tuesday threatened to file a defamation case against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi for launching a 'vilification campaign' against its chief Lalu Prasad to gain political mileage. "We will file a defamation case against Modi for making derogatory
remarks against the party president," RJD spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed Khan told reporters in Patna.
Khan claimed that the slogan attributed by Modi to Prasad to wipe out 'Bhura Bal' (Bhumihar, Rajput and Brahmins) had never been made by him.
The spokesperson stuck to his point in the face of media persons' insistence that Prasad had indeed made such a statement at a programme at the party office here on Sunday in which scribes were present.
"The JD(U)-BJP combine was spreading a canard against the RJD-LJP combine seeing that a strong wave was sweeping in its favour," Khan claimed.
He denied that Prasad had made the statement that no leader from a forward caste could dream of becoming the chief minister of Bihar.
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