Bihar Current Affairs- September 2020
■ 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.
The End.
