Bihar Current Affairs- April 2021
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■ CM Nitish Kumar launched the Bal Hriday Yojana (BHY). BHY will
provide free treatment to children suffering from the medical condition of
a hole in the heart or Ventricular Septal Defect
(VSD). The scheme started from 1st of April 2021 but was launched on 2nd April by flagging off a bus carrying 21 children with VSD condition, along with their guardians, to the Patna airport to be flown to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) for specialized treatment at Prashanti Medical Services and Research Foundation hospital. This scheme has been linked with the government’s Seven Resolves’ Programme-2 (Saat Nishchay – 2). |
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■ From 1st April 2021, the state government has increased the scholarship amount for unmarried Intermediate examination pass and graduate girls to ₹25,000 and ₹50,000, respectively under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Uttan Yojana. There has been 100% increase in the amount of money given under this scheme. |
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■ Gandhian thinker and follower of Vinoba Bhave, Dwariko Sundarani passed away. He has been empowering the tribal and local communities in Gaya for the last 58 years in Bihar at Samanvay Ashram. |
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■ Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad was granted bail in fodder scam case. The case pertains to the fraudulent withdrawal of ₹ 3.5 crore from the Dumka treasury by Animal Husbandry Department officials between 1991 and 1996, when he was the Chief Minister of Bihar. |
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■ Bihar was ranked 6th among the 29 states in the State-level Vulnerability Indices developed by the National Climate Assessment Report, released by DoS&T. Jharkhand is the highest vulnerable state w.r.t. current climate risks in India. |
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■ In Bihar oxygen plants
will be set up in 15 districts of the
state to meet the demand of medical oxygen across the state. |
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■ Amid rising number of
COVID-19 cases, Bihar Government has imposed night curfew from 18th
April to 15th May. |
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■ Bihar government has decided to provide bonus salary of one month to all healthcare workers this year. |
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■ The design plan of an elevated corridor faced criticism, which proposed the demolition of the Lord Curzon Reading Room of the Khuda Baksh Oriental Library. The corridor proposes to link Patna’s Kargil Chowk to the National Institute of Technology. Khuda Baksh Oriental Library was opened for public in October, 1891 by Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh. It’s an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India (GoI), and is governed by a Board with the Governor of Bihar as its ex officio Chairman. GoI declared the Library an Institution of National Importance by an act of Parliament in 1969. Library is known for its rare collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts. It also hosts paintings made during the Rajput and Mughal eras of India. One of its manuscripts is
inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, and three more
identified as Vigyan Nidhi, by the (Union) Ministry of Culture. |
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■ Former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha passed away. He was 1974 batch (Bihar
cadre) Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and handed law and order in
multiple districts in Bihar, Sinha also headed the Railway Protection Force
(RPF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). |
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■ 12 Panchayati Raj Institutions(PRIs) of Bihar had been selected for the National Award 2021. These include 7 Gram Panchayats, 4 Panchayat Samiti and 1 Zilla Parishad. The award was given to these Panchayati Raj Institutions by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India on the 12th National Panchayati Raj Day held virtually on 24th April, 2021. For the first time, Prime
Minister transferred the award money
(as Grants-in-Aid) directly to the bank account of the Panchayats concerned
in real-time. |
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■ Former Hajipur MLA Jagannath Rai dies of Corona. He contested for Assembly
Election on Congress ticket for the last time
in 2015. |
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■ On 23rd April
CM Nitish Kumar paid tribute to Veer Kunwar Singh
on his jayanti. On this date in 1858,
Singh had a victory near Jagdispur over the force led by Captain le Grand. Kunwar Singh’s armed
soldiers routed the Company’s troops killing about 130 out of 300 men including
Captain le Grand. Kunwar Singh died of
injuries on 26th April 1858. |
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■ Recently, Maithili litterateur Pandit Chandranath Mishra Amar died. He was the recipient of
the Sahitya Akademi award for his 1982 work Maithili Patrakaritak Itahas. He also won the
prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for the year 2010. |
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■ Sahitya
Akademi Award of 2020 were announced in the previous month and three
litterateurs from Bihar were among 20 selected awardees.
About, Sahitya
Akademi Award: Est. in 1954 it’s a
literary honour that is conferred annually on Indian
writers for their outstanding works of literary merit in 24 languages ( 22 from 8th Schedule + English + Rajasthani). The award is presented in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cheque of ₹ 1 lakh. It is the 2nd highest literary honour after Jananpith award. |
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■ Bihar
Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC) reduced power tariff by 10 paise per unit across all the categories of
consumers and introduced metered connections even for people living below
poverty line (BPL). BERC has reduced power tariff for the first time in 15 years of its existence. |
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■ BJP MLA from Jamui and ace international shooter Shreyasi Singh has won the gold medal
in the women's trap team event of ISSF Shooting
World Cup, held in Delhi. |
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■ In order to provide better
power transmission to Nepal, Bihar
State Power Transmission Company Limited, (BSPTCL) is constructing two power transmission lines. The first transmission
line of 132 kV is built at a cost of ₹ 3.19 Crore at Kataya-Kushsha while the second transmission
line of same voltage level in under construction at Raxaul-Parvanipur at the cost of ₹ 24.55
crore. At present, Bihar
transfers 441MW (megawatt) of power to
Nepal. |
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■ Ex-chief
of Sahasthra Seema Bal (SSB) Arun Chaudhary dies of Covid. He was 1977-batch IPS
officer of the Bihar cadre and served in Intelligence Bureau for two decades. |
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■ COVID scenario in Bihar
is worsening as the second wave goes rural. As of now, Bihar has over 1 lakh active cases.
Patna tops the chart with over 17,000 active cases during the current wave. This is more alarming than compared with the peak
of first wave in September 2020, when Bihar
observed 12,686 active cases, with Patna being the highest at 1981 cases. |
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■ The State Government has
declared few more government hospitals as dedicated
hospitals for COVID-19 treatment, these include- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JLNMCH) at Bhagalpur,
Anugrah
Narayan Magadh Medical College (ANMCH) at Gaya, and Shree Krishna Medical College
Hospital, Muzaffarpur. Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) at Patna was the first dedicated COVID hospital in Bihar. |
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