136 Primary Health Centres in Bihar will become 30-bed hospitals

Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday decided to up grade 6-bed 136 Primary Health Centres to 30-bed hospitals with an expenditure of Rs 276.4 crore.
The cabinet approved delegation of powers to divisional commissioners to settle gairmazarua aam land in favour of landless members of the Mahadalit community.

The cabinet sanctioned Rs 55.67 crore for multi-sectoral development scheme in minority community dominated districts.

Other important decisions are;
Marks in interview for Bihar Judicial Services examinations will be 100 instead of 200 at present.
Rs 150 crore has been sanctioned for Mukhyamantri Nagar Vikas Yojana.
Rs 6.27 crore has sanctioned for research projects at Rajendra Agriculture University.Rs 15 crore has been sanctioned for Mukhyamantri Kanya Suraksha Yojana.

Photo captions: All the Bihar ministers including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (left in top 2) are on their way to attend Cabinet meeting in Patna on December 8, 2009.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui