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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. File | Photo Credit: PTI
A parcel of 991 acres can be acquired at a price of ₹351 crore in Begusarai district whereas 500 acres can be acquired at a price of ₹219 crore in Patna district, S. Siddharth, the Cabinet Secretariat’s Additional Chief Secretary, mentioned in a briefing.
The Infrastructure Development Authority, Patna will perform land acquisition for the event of all of the 5 industrial areas within the State, he mentioned.
Mr. Siddharth mentioned that 167.34 acres in Siwan at a price of ₹113 crore, 420.62 acres in Saharsa district at a price of ₹88.01 crore and 548.87 acres in Madhepura district at a price of ₹41.26 crore can be acquired by the federal government.
The Cabinet additionally authorized the acquisition of 1,300 acres for the event of an Integrated Manufacturing Cluster beneath the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Project at Dobhi in Gaya district, Mr. Siddharth mentioned, whereas making it clear that the above industrial areas can be new ones whereas the IMC at Dobhi is an ongoing challenge.
In one other vital choice, the Cabinet gave its approval for establishing a manufacturing facility at ₹35.14 crore to fabricate textile objects corresponding to fleece, blanket covers, mattress sheets and casements in Gaya.
“The manufacturing facility can be arrange by M/s Prabhavati Textile Mills in an industrial space at Guraru in Gaya to fabricate textiles. The funding would generate direct and oblique employment for 237 expert and unskilled individuals of the State,” Mr. Siddharth mentioned.
In order to develop and develop the airport community, the Cabinet authorized a proposal to hold out Obstacle Limitation Surfaces (OLS) survey for the event of six greenfield airports at Birpur (Supaul), Munger, Valmikinagar (West Champaran), Muzaffarpur, Saharsa and Bhagalpur, Mr. Siddharth mentioned, including that it sanctioned ₹290.91 crore for fee to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the aim. The OLS survey is a vital course of to make sure the protection of plane operations by figuring out and mapping potential hazards inside an outlined airspace round an airport.
This survey helps in sustaining clear pathways for take-off, touchdown, and floor motion of plane by defining surfaces that have to be free from obstacles.
The Cabinet additionally sanctioned ₹137.17 crore for acquisition of 18 acres for growth of Gaya airport to put in “CAT I Light” to facilitate the touchdown of plane even throughout dangerous climate situations corresponding to fog, smog and low visibility. With the set up of the ability, the airport can be thought-about an “all climate airport”.
People who fought throughout the JP Movement and subsequent Emergency interval between March 18, 1974 and March 21, 1977 will get double the quantity month-to-month as pension now, the Cabinet determined. Those who spent one to 6 months throughout Emergency in jail will get ₹15,000 whereas those that spent greater than six months will get ₹30,000 as pension. Earlier, they have been getting ₹7,500 and ₹15,000 each month respectively.
There are altogether 3,354 individuals getting the JP Senani pension, together with Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad.
The Cabinet additionally gave its nod to amend Rule 14 (phone facility) of the Bihar Legislature (Salary, Allowance and Pension of members) Rules 2006. Members of the State legislature is not going to should furnish payments to assert ₹8,300 monthly in direction of phone and Internet. Members will now get the quantity with out furnishing any payments.
The Cabinet hiked annual honorariums of booth-level officers (BLO) and BLO supervisors. Now the BLO will ₹14,000 in opposition to the prevailing ₹10,000 whereas the BLO supervisor will get ₹18,000 in opposition to the prevailing ₹15,000. A sum of ₹38.75 crore has been sanctioned for the aim.
Published – August 14, 2025 04:03 am IST
