Bihar Current Affairs November 2021
■ Monthly Current Affairs
■ Shri Ram Nath Kovind felicitated the awardees of the
cleanest cities of India at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ hosted as part of Swachh Bharat
Mission-Urban 2.0 by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at
Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
For the fifth consecutive year, Indore was awarded the title of India’s Cleanest
City under Swachh Survekshan, while Surat and Vijayawada
bagged the second and third spots respectively in the ‘more than
1 lakh population’ category.
Bihar
• Bihar has been jointly ranked 17th with Nagaland in the
ranking of states of Swachh Survekshan, 2021.
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| Source: Swachh Survekshan, 2021 |
• Bihar ranked 13th and stood at the bottom among
the states having more than 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).
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| Source:Swachh Survekshan, 2021 |
• In Bihar 24 ULBs
have been given ODF+
status.
• From Bihar Gaya Municipal Corporation (GMC) has secured top
position among all ULBs in the state
(National rank 208)
having a population of less than 10 lakh
in Swachh
Survekshan 2021.
• Among the All India Districts Ranking of Swachh Survekshan
2021, Gaya
district has been ranked 289th out of 659 districts across the
country. The same Supaul has got 300th, Patna 313th and
Muzaffarpur 351st.
• In the Citizen Feedback category of cities with a
population of 50 thousand to 1 lakh,
Supaul
of Bihar has got the first place in the
country. It's also the first Garbage Free City (GFC) in Bihar with a 1-Star rating.
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| Source: Swachh Survekshan, 2021 |
• Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC)
(Rank 44 out
of 48) is the only ULB in the state in the category of ULBs with a population of above 10 lakh.
• DANAPUR CANTT. With 53rd rank is the only ULB
in Bihar that lies in the category of Cantonment Boards.
• Best Ganga Town:
In more than 1L population category:
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (Rank 1st )
Munger, Bihar Rank 2nd and
Patna, Bihar 3rd
In less than 1L population category:
Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh (Rank 1st )
Sonpur, Bihar (Rank 4th )
• Prerak DAUUR
Sammaan:
Swachh Survekshan 2021 introduced a new category of
awards known as the Prerak DAUUR Sammaan. It included five new performance
parameters- ‘DAUUR’ implying Divya (Platinum), Anupam (Gold), Ujjwal
(Silver), Udit (Bronze) & AaRohi (Copper) to further motivate the
competition among the States.
Five cities – Indore, Surat (M
CORP.), Navi
Mumbai (M CORP.), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Tirupati
were categorized as ‘Divya’ (Platinum).
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■ The Gaya Municipal Corporation (GMC) has decided to install QR card
in more than 70,000 houses under the municipal area by March next year to ensure lifting of
garbage on regular basis.
■ Chief Minister Nitish Kumar presented Bihar’s highest award in the field
of education, Maulana
Abul KalamAzad Shiksha Puruskar, 2021, to Dr Shankar Nath Jha for his
distinguished work in the field of education, especially among children of the
Musahar community living in Dalit localities of Jamui.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puruskar was
instituted in 2007
and carries ₹2.5-lakh
prize money. Bihar was the first state to announce the celebration of the
birth anniversary of India’s first Education Minister Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
as Shiksha Diwas in 2006.
■ Sharad Kumar of Muzaffarpur, who won a bronze medal in the men’s high jump T42 event at the Tokyo Paralympics,
was awarded Arjuna
Award.
■ On November 9, 2021, President Ram Nath Kovind
presented the Padma
Awards announced for the year 2021 to 5 personalities from Bihar.
For the year 2021, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan for his work in public affairs.
At the same time, the following 4 personalities from Bihar were conferred with Padma Shri Award:
- Ms Dulari Devi in Art
- Shri Ramachandra Manjhi in Art
- Dr Dilip Kumar Singh in Medicine
- Ms. Mridula Sinha (Posthumous) in Literature and Education
• Dulari Devi from Ranti village in Madhubani district
is famous for Madhubani Art ( Mithila Art).
She also teaches Madhubani paintings and practices both, the ‘Kachnhi'
(line sketching) and ‘Bharni’ (coloured) styles of Madhubani.
• Ramchandra Manjhi has recently been conferred with
the Life Time Achievement in Theater Award by the Department of Art, Culture
and Youth, Government of Bihar. He has worked in a documentary film on Launda Naach
named "Naach Bhikhari Naach" by dressing up as a woman to perform the
songs and plays of Bhikhari Thakur. Born in village Tujarpur in the Saran
district, he was also awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2017.
• Dilip Kumar Singh, a 92-year-old Physician from Bhagalpur has
been awarded Padma Shri in the field of Medicine this year. He has devoted his life to the
health of the poor for over seven decades.
• Mridula Sinha was an Indian writer and politician
born in village Chhapra Dharampur Yadu in Muzaffarpur district. She has been awarded the
Padma Shri posthumously in the field of Literature and Education. Sinha started
her political journey from Muzaffarpur as an active worker of Jan Sangh. Later
she was nominated as the national president of the BJP Mahila Morcha. She was
the first woman
Governor of Goa and breathed her last in New Delhi on November 18
2020.
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■ The Airports Authority
of India (AAI) has
installed a circuit of Aerodrome Ground Lighting (AGL) system on the runway of the Darbhanga Airport,
a measure that improves safety during aircraft landings even when visibility
is poor in the winter season or bad weather conditions.
The lighting system allows pilots to safely land the
aircraft on the runway even if the visibility is down to 1200 metres, which is presently 1600m. The AGL system is being installed
with an expenditure of ₹3.8 crores. Besides, chain fencing will be done to
keep the wilds (nilgai) at bay for the safety of aircraft landings.
■ Bihar Legislative Council acting chairperson Awadhesh Narain Singh inaugurated National e-Vidhan
Application (NeVA), making it the first
digital House in the country.
The Centre’s ambitious NeVA project is part of the Digital India
programme aimed at making the functioning of Parliament as well as the state
legislatures paperless.
■ The 21-minute Bihar Agricultural University’s (Sabour) documentary
film 'Umeed: A
Hope' for the development of tribes has won the second prize in a program organized
by the National
Institute of Rural and Panchayati Raj.
■ The paddy procurement drive has started in all
districts of Bihar and the target is to procure 45 lakh metric tonnes by 31st
January 2022.
The selected Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS)
and vyapar
mandals have been asked to procure paddy from farmers at the Minimum Support
Price (MSP). The farmers will be paid ₹1,940 per quintal.
Each of the ‘ryots’ (land owning farmer) will be able to sell 250 quintals of
paddy, and a ‘bataidar’ (sharecropper), 100 quintals.
The state has over 8,000 PACS and over 100 vyapar
mandals, but only the selected among them have been pressed into paddy
procurement.
After purchasing paddy from farmers, the two agencies
will get it milled at the identified rice mills in the state before delivering
the rice to Bihar State Food and Civil
Supplies Corporation (BSFCSC).
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■ Patna was ranked the worst five performing cities
in the NITI Aayog’s first ‘Sustainable Development Goals Urban India Index and Dashboard
2020-21’. The city has secured 52nd rank out of 56 cities in the index
with an overall score of 57.29. Shimla tops the Index followed by Coimbatore and
Chandigarh.
Patna has performed poorly in the ‘decent work and economic growth’
category with a score of 17 out of 100. Patna has got the lowest scores in the industry, innovation and infrastructure (30), affordable and clean energy (36),
zero hunger (39), no poverty (45) and sustainable cities and communities (48).
Patna has secured a perfect 100 score in ensuring sustainable consumption and production pattern
and maximum
score in clean water and sanitation with 82, quality education (79), gender
equality (78), and peace, justice and strong institutions (66). In the other
categories, Patna has got 62 in climate action, 60 in each reduced inequalities
and good health and well-being.
As per the dashboard, Patna has been placed in ‘performer’
category. The index has been prepared by NITI Aayog-GIZ and BMZ under the umbrella of Indo-German
Development Cooperation.
The SDG Urban Index and Dashboard rank 56 urban areas
on 77 SDG
indicators across 46 targets of the SDG framework. The urban areas
are ranked on a scale of 0-100. A score of 100 implies that the urban area
has achieved the targets set for 2030; a score of 0 implies that it is the
farthest from achieving the targets among the selected urban areas.
■ Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 6th
International Dharma-Dhamma Conference at Nalanda University (NU) in
the Nalanda district of Bihar.
This conference held from November 7 to 9, 2021, was being
organized by Nalanda University and India Foundation at NU.
The theme of the three-day conference is the Role of Dharma Dhamma
traditions in building a post - COVID world.
The first International Dharma-Dhamma Conference was
organized on 22-23 September 2012 at Sanchi University (Madhya Pradesh). At the same time,
the 5th conference was organized on 27-28 July 2019 at Nalanda
University, Rajgir (Bihar).
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■The Patna high court orally observed that the
historic Lomas and
Yagyavalkya
(Yajnavalkya) hillocks in Nawada district should not be touched by the government and not be quarried if people still perform worship there out of their
religious and cultural beliefs.
The hillocks are believed to be the abode of the sages
of the Ramayana era as well as the birthplace of Luv and Kush when Lord Ram's
wife Sita was in exile.
■ Bihar Prashasnik Sudhar Mission Society, a unit functioning
under the General Administration department of government of Bihar, has been
given Skoch
Governance Gold Award for Bihar E-RTPS Services.
Bihar has received this award in the recently held 75th
Skoch conference for promoting online delivery of public services and
e-governance in the form of 'Bihar e-Lok Seva'.
The Bihar Right to Public Services Act has been
implemented in the entire state with effect from August 15, 2011, in order to provide
public services to the citizens within the stipulated time limit.
The Skoch Award is presented by the 'Skoch Group'
for its best efforts in digital, financial and social inclusion. SKOCH Group is
India's leading Think
Tank, dealing with socio-economic
issues, with a focus on inclusive growth since 1997.
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■ The Skoch Institute has given a silver award for the FY 2021-22 to
the Mukhyamantri
Gram Sampark Yojana (MMGSY) running under the Department of Rural Affairs. The
department has been given in view of this scheme being run for the purpose of
all-round development of the village.
Under the CM Gram Sampark Yojana, 45,600 km of roads have been
constructed so far and the construction of 16,830 km of roads is in process.
The Government of Bihar (GOB) launched the MMGSY in the year 2013
to connect with all-weather
roads to all rural habitations with a population of more than 250 in 27
Non-IAP (Integrated Action Plan) districts. In the year 2017-18, this scheme
was also started in 11 IAP districts.
The state Rural Works Department (RWD) has raised the required money
from the World Bank,
New Development
Bank (NDB) of the BRICS countries and also from NABARD to give connectivity to
villages and tolas.
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■ Nitish Kumar,
Chief Minister of Bihar in the presence of R
K Singh, Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy on 28th November 2021 dedicated
Stage-II 500MW
(2X250 MW) of NTPC
Barauni Thermal Power Station (BTPS) and Unit No. 1 (660MW)
of NTPC Barh
Super Thermal Power Station (BSTPS).
The Barauni Thermal Station located at Barauni in Begusarai district was established with
the technical help of Yugoslavia and Poland,
while the USA
helped finance the project. The state government had transferred the 720 Mw Barauni
Thermal Power Station to NTPC Ltd on December 15, 2018.
The Barh Super Thermal Power Station located at Barh
in Patna district has a total
installed capacity of 3,300 MW, out of which 1,320MW (2x660 MW) Barh
Stage-2 built by BHEL is operational since March 2016 while 1,980MW (3x660 MW)
Barh Stage-1 is being built by Russian firm Technopromexport (TPE).
The NTPC Group has an installed capacity of 7,970 MW
in Bihar and another 1,980 MW is under construction.
■ Seven villages will be swapped between Bihar
and Uttar
Pradesh to end the land dispute and help in its development process.
According to reports, seven villages in Kushinagar district of UP will be shifted to Bihar
under Bagha
district while seven villages of Bagha will be taken up in Uttar Pradesh.
The process of swapping of villages will be completed
as soon as the approval of the Central Government is given.
■ Twenty-one-year-old Anushka Kumari, who hails from Bihar's Seohar district, created history by becoming the youngest mukhiya (village head) in the recently conducted Bihar Panchayat election.
■ Eight-year-old Aadya took over the responsibility of UNICEF Bihar State
Chief in Bihar for a day under Kids Takeover on World Children's
Week. This initiative has been started with the aim of increasing confidence in
children.
■ The Bihar Pavilion was awarded a gold medal in ‘Best Pavilion’ category during the closing
ceremony of the 40th India International Trade Fair (IITF)
held at Pragti
Maidan in New Delhi.
IITF concludes with the Bihar pavilion winning the 6th
gold medal for its outstanding implementation of the ‘Aatmnirbhar Bharat’ campaign.
It showcased the live demo of prominent handicrafts like ‘Madhubani,
‘Manjusha, ‘Terracotta and ‘Skki’.
■ On 26th November, CM Nitish Kumar and his
Cabinet colleagues and officials had taken a pledge at Patna’s Gyan Bhawan to
not drink liquor for life, nor to indulge in any activity related with liquor
to mark the ‘Nasha
Mukti Diwas’.
The Nitish Kumar government had on April 5, 2016,
banned the manufacture, trade, storage, transportation, sale and consumption of
liquor in the state. After Gujarat, Nagaland, and Mizoram, Bihar is the fourth
state to declare itself dry.
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■ Bihar crossed the eight-crore COVID vaccination mark on
28th
November 2021 and also became the fifth state in the country to
achieve this milestone.
■ Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the River Cities
Alliance (RCA), a dedicated platform for river cities in India to
ideate, discuss and exchange information for sustainable management of urban
rivers. This first of its kind Alliance in the world symbolizes the successful
partnership of the two Ministries i.e., the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Although the Alliance began with the Ganga basin
cities, it was extended to include cities beyond the basin as well. From Bihar four cities,
viz. Begusarai,
Bhagalpur, Munger and Patna are among the 30 participating cities in the RCA.
The Alliance will focus on three broad themes- Networking, Capacity Building and Technical
Support. The Secretariat of the Alliance will be set up at National Institute for Urban Affairs (NIUA), with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG’s) support.
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■ For the first time in the country, Government Ayurvedic College Darbhanga
(GACD)
launched its outpatient
department (OPD) in medical astrology for providing relief to the
people suffering from various diseases with the help of their horoscopes.
■ Bihar is ranked 19th in the Logistics Ease Across Different States
(LEADS)
Report
(Index)
2021 released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Gujarat tops the list and Delhi stood at the top rank among UTs while Assam ranked 21st was at the bottom.
Launched in 2018, the LEADS report is aimed at gauging the logistics performance of states and Union Territories (UT) and identifying areas where they can improve logistics performance. India’s logistics costs account for 13-14 per cent of GDP, compared to 7-8 per cent in developed countries and the government aims to bring down logistics costs by 5 per cent over the next 5 years.
■ According to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5)
data for 2019-21 indicates that India has more females than
males with its overall sex ratio has risen to 1,020 after seeing a dip from 1,000
in 2005-06 to 991 in 2015-16.
In Bihar, the population of females per thousand males has gone up to 1090.
The sex ratio at birth, however, was still worryingly
low at 929,
indicating continued sex selection at birth, despite an improvement from the
previous survey.
A State-wise breakup of the NFHS data also shows that
India is on its way to stabilising its population, with most States and UTs
having a Total
Fertility Rate (TFR) of less than two.
Bihar has a TFR of 3.0
which is the highest
in India; however, it’s an improvement from the 3.4 of the NFHS-4.
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■ The Winter Session of the Bihar State Legislature began on 29th
November 2021. The five-day session will be held till the third of next
month, could witness at least one or two bills - one related to the Bihar
technical service commission and another related to private universities.
■ In the FIRST-EVER Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
prepared by the government think tank, NITI Aayog has said that Bihar has the highest proportion of people, at 51.91 per cent
of the state’s population, who are multidimensionally poor, followed by
Jharkhand at 42.16 per cent and Uttar Pradesh at 37.79 per cent.
The MPI seeks to measure poverty across its multiple
dimensions and in effect complements existing poverty statistics based on per
capita consumption expenditure. It has three equally weighted dimensions – health, education,
and standard of living – which in turn are represented by 12 indicators
such as nutrition, school attendance, years of schooling, drinking water,
sanitation, housing, bank accounts among others, according to the report.
Bihar also has the highest number of
malnourished people followed by Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar
Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. Kerala, Goa, and Sikkim have the lowest percentage
of population being multidimensionally poor at 0.71 per cent, 3.76 per cent and
3.82 per cent, respectively. This baseline report of the national MPI measure
is based on the reference period of 2015-16 of the National Family Health
Survey (NFHS).
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