Bihar Current Affairs- September 2020

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 ■ Monthly Current Affairs One-Liners


• R K Mahajan has been appointed as the new chairman of the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC).

• Laungi Bhuiyan from Bihar’s Gaya district built a 3 Km long canal after 30 years of hard work to take rainwater coming down from nearby hills to fields of his village in Kothilawa.


• India’s first model nutritional village Kukribigha is located in Patna district of Bihar.


• Bihar ranked 26th in the Ease of DoingBusiness ranking based on the State Business Reform Action Plan- 2019 (State BRAP) released by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). Andhra Pradesh topped the list followed by Uttar Pradesh.


• Ghar Tak Fiber Scheme of ₹14,000 Cr have been recently launched by PM Shri Narendra Modi in Bihar.


• PM Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated various projects under 'Namami Gange' Yojana and 'AMRUT' Yojana in Bihar. These schemes include:

Under the 'AMRUT' Yojana:

  • Sewerage treatment plants at Beur and Karam-Leechak in Patna city
  • Water-related projects in Siwan and Chhapra

Under Namami Gange:

  • Water supply projects in Munger and Jamalpur 
  • River Front Development Scheme in Muzaffarpur. (Three riverfronts will be developed in Muzaffarpur on the bank of Budhi Gandak.)


• PM Shri Narendra Modi on 10 September 2019 launched ₹20,050 Cr Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) aimed at developing the country’s fisheries sector sustainably.


• PMMSY in Bihar envisages an investment of ₹ 1390 crore with Central Share of ₹ 535 crore and the additional fish production target pegged at 3 lakh tons.


• Bihar ranks fourth in Inland Fisheries in India.


• Two teachers from Bihar, Sant Kumar Sahni and Akhileshwar Pathak were conferred with National Awards to Teachers 2020.


• North India’s largest frozen semen station was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in Purnia district of Bihar under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission.


• Bihar ranked 4th in the list of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojna (PMMY) in availing loans to women.


• Bihar ranked 25th in India’s first Happiness Index. Mizoram tops the ranking.


• Bihar ranked first in among the states with the lowest number of accidents due to drunken driving in 2019.


• Bihar ranked 23rd in the Young Child Environment Index (YCEI) of the recently released State of Young Child in India report. Kerala stood first.


• CM Shri Nitish Kumar inaugurated State Cancer Institute in Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), Patna at a cost of ₹ 120 Cr.


• Shivdasia Kunwar has been selected by the Union Ministry of Steel as one of the 12 icons for its Ispati Irada campaign.


• Aurangabad to Jayanagar will be the first expressway of Bihar to be built under the Bharatmala Yojana. It will be 271 Km long North-South corridor connecting Patna with 6 other districts of Bihar.


• Bihar recorded the highest percentage increase of 44.69% in number of suicide cases according the data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).


• PM Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated 1.9 Km long Kosi rail mega bridge constructed at a cost of ₹ 516 Cr. The bridge will connect Mithila and Kosi region after 86 year and the distance between Nirmali and Saraigarh will be reduced from 298 km to 22 km.


• Recently PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Durgapur-Banka section of the Paradeep-Haldia-Durgapur LPG pipeline project.


• PM also inaugurated LPG bottling plants in Banka by IOCL and in East Champaran by HPCL with a combined bottling capacity of 80,000 cylinders per day.


• CM Shri Nitish Kumar has laid the foundation stone of Mithila Haat recently constructed along the East-West Corridor (NH-57) in Madhubani district.


• State-of-the-art data centre for flood management has been constructed in Patna.


• CM Shri Nitish Kumar has been honoured for Jal Jeevan Hariyali Abhiyan scheme run by the Bihar government at the recently held UN High-Level Round Table Conference.


• Former Union Minister Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, who passed away recently, was a five-time MP from Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency.


• Rs 3980 Cr has been provisioned for Bihar in the Agricultural Infrastructure Fund of one lakh crore rupees under Atmanirbhar Bharat.

 

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