Patna`s famous Super 30 to restart operations
Posted on Jun 05, 2007 by Kumar

Patna: The Management of Super 30 today announced the re-start of the institute
after Pranav Prince, the boy who got 162nd rank in IIT-JEE, refused to take
admission in IIT, if the institute is not re-started.

Pranav, who was hiding himself from Media since past 2-3 days, met Anand Kumar
at about 10:30 Monday night, and apologised for all these controvercies.

"I was mis-guided by some people, who took me to the Chief Minister. I never
knew their intention, and whatever they said afterwards is totally wrong," said
Prince.

"Thousands of poor student's dreams for IIT will be dashed, if Super 30 closes.
and I won't be able to forgive myself for the same," he added.

   Please read the complete story at
   http://www.bhojpuria.com/samachar/news.php?a=3629


   Parnaam,
   Sudhir Kumar
   Bhojpuria.com
   Phone: 9931182544, 9431111776




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Just posted a message on Patnadaily.com, not sure if they will publish but
sharing this with this group anyway. Would urge others as well to reach out
to previous batches of Super30 to make an appeal as well if you know any of
them. Already see some action on Orkut group of ex-Super30 students but all
should try

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Appeal to Super30 (Sri Abhayanand and Sri Anand Kumar)

Respected Abhayanand jee and Anand jee. Many of us feel the pain and anguish
you have felt from the stupid conduct of some of our very own students. Yes
it hurts, was unexpected and totally unacceptable.

But we will be even more hurt by the damage they would be able to inflict on
future needy aspirants. What you have been able to achieve was exemplary in
many ways. Bihar has been short of good news for long and your inspirational
story was such a welcome relief. You might be aware that national media
loves to negatively stereotype Bihar and in that context your Super30 was
such a mood lifter and confidence builder. When the whole nation has been
busy in communal & caste debates your Super30 was a practical alternative to
social harmony and way forward.

Yes these students and their "overnight" sponsors have managed to hurt your
sentiments and also bring some disrepute to our state. But we will be real
losers when we vacate the ground for them.

Even worse than having Bad people at a place is the case when good people
vacate the space for evil. Please don't let them succeed in their evil
intent.

For the sake of many more of those future Super30 generations please
reconsider your decision. We all earnestly appeal. Biharis across globe and
even other societies are shaken by this news and we all feel like crying.
Please please don't let these few off track students and money making goons
run the show.

Since you both have great love for Physics and Maths. I would just give an
example from Physics that "Nature Abhors Vacuum". When you "Vacate" the
space, then in a way you are letting "bad air" come in and occupy the empty
space. Please don't do that.

Atul Kumar
Danbury,CT
USA
Ph +1 203 512 6749


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Patna`s famous Super 30 project abandoned
Posted on Jun 03, 2007 by Kumar

Patna: Patna's much-talked-about 'Super 30' project was on Saturday consigned to
history with the good Samaritans, who used to coach 30 economically backward and
socially depressed IIT-aspirants to crack JEE every year, announcing their
decision to abandon the noble initiative.

The sudden development came amid claims of other coaching institutes to have
coached some of the successful Super 30's aspirants, thus disputing the claim of
the Super 30 project.

"We are hurt by the controversy... We have decided to shelve the project
forever," an audibly upset Abhayanand, a senior Bihar IPS officer, told over
phone.

   You may read the complete story at
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28 out of 30 in IIT, Super 30 proves itself again
Posted on May 30, 2007 by Kumar

Patna: Twenty-eight of the 30 students of Super 30, an innovative coaching
institute in Bihar have passed the highly competitive Indian Institute of
Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year. The results were
declared Wednesday.

Last year also 28 students of Super 30 had made it to the prestigious Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) colleges. Every year, Super 30 selects a group of
30 IIT aspirants from poor families and provides them with free coaching, food
and accommodation.

'It is a big day for us, our students made it. This year 28 cracked IIT and two
other were selected for preparatory, it is like hundred percent result,' Anand
Kumar, director of Super 30

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Nandigram (SALIM) is not The Last of the Mohicans . Prior to it,
there was already a Singur (TATA) and much before that there was a
Kalinga Nagar (TATA). Gradually, Kalinga Nagar is turning into
Jagatsingh Nagar (POSCO). Now the situation has become so volatile
that future is exceptionally radioactive with past. Whatsoever we
have no clue as to which region falls in which state. It seems as if
the whole India or rather the whole world has become Nandigram or
Kalinga Nagar. Has capitalism really shattered the notion of
boundaries (nation-states)?



Maribu Pache Daribu Nahi (Die we may, we are not afraid!) is an
exploration trying to find 'modern' and 'primitive' people engaging
or disengaging with 'modern' or 'primitive' accumulation practice.
The film journeys through the history of TATAs negotiating with
colonial or postcolonial state with a scriptural or edicted
justification drawn from the ancient regimes of Kautiliya and Ashoka
(invasion of Kalinga). After all, Arthashastra is all about
statecraft. The film takes a tour to the 'Socialist' regime of
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister as to how he tried to dam
the disjuncture of history through his scientific temperament where
humanity was either submerged by Hirakud Reservior or had disappeared
in the vast reservoir of displacement. And then came the era of
liberalisation where Kashipur wrestled with Utkal Alumina under
the 'eternal vigilance' of the state and paid the price of neo-
liberalism.  Now, it is POSCO clearing the way (read livelihood) for
massive displacements of the people at Jagatsingh Nagar.



From 'Mixed Economy' to 'Unmixed' one, history wasn't only an
asymmetrical exercise of power. It also put in the picture, the
struggle and resistance put up by the people against the politics of
appropriation. The film is all about the holy grail of 'profits'
and 'development' and also about the struggle of the marginalised.



INSAF & Press Club of India

invite you to the screening of



Maribu Pache Daribu Nahi

(Die we may, we are not afraid!)

Language           Oriya, Hindi, Urdu (with English subtitles)

Duration           43 Minutes


By

Rashid Ali

Date : May 23, 2007

Venue: Press Club of India, New Delhi

Time: 6pm -7 pm

As one of the persons who was fortunate enough to attend this
function, I was quite impressed with the quality of discussions and
involvement of the various people who attended. I came back
thoroughly impressed by Mr Dinesh Mishra. Having only interacted
with him on email which are so full of youthful exuberance, I had no
idea Mr Mishra is a very senior person who has been researching the
field of water management in north bihar for over forty years. His
vast experience, scientific temperament inculcated through education
at IIT Kharagpur, great love for Bihar, innate humanism and ability
to relate intricate technical matters in easy to understand language
make him perhaps the most knowledgeable person in flood control and
water management and its human angle.

I am sure he would keep his good work on and we would get more such
literature on this. The kind of debate I saw during the launch would
ensure that the ideas wont just remain on paper but influence policy
of water management.

Thanks


--- In biharchintan@..., "Dinesh Kumar Mishra"
<dineshkmishra@...> wrote:
>
>   Dear All,
> This is just to inform everyone that the Book Release Ceremony of
Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein went on very well and was attended by
nearly 300 persons in the Bihar Vidhan Parishad Annexe.
>
> I thank all the members of Biharchintan group who had sent their
good wishes for the success of the function. I will soon plsce the
summary of the book.
>
> Thanx once again .
>
> Dinesh Mishra
>
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>

 Dear All,
This is just to inform everyone that the Book Release Ceremony of Dui Paatan Ke
Beech Mein went on very well and was attended by nearly 300 persons in the Bihar
Vidhan Parishad Annexe.

I thank all the members of Biharchintan group who had sent their good wishes for
the success of the function. I will soon plsce the summary of the book.

Thanx once again .

Dinesh Mishra

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   Please go to attachment.

Dinesh Mishra

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Friends

A few of you have asked me how to blog in Hindi. I am putting what I
know in my hindi blog

http://gandhimaidan.blogspot.com/

I have found typing in Hindi using the phonetic system so simple that
I have even started to use the blogger site for typing other stuff
there and using it.

Do not forget to use google to do searches on Hindi related subjects.
I found the entire Tulsi Ramayana.

Do share it on the yahoogroup if you find something interesting.

Thanks

I was very surprised by the amount of Hindi literature that is
available on the net. This is a collection of some of best Hindi poems:

http://www.geeta-kavita.com/article.asp?article=list_poems

This link is to the various blogs in Hindi:

http://www.kafila.org/2007/03/12/the-relief-of-blogistan/

Inspired, even I ended up writing a blog in Hindi.

gandhimaidan.blogspot.com


--
Thakur Vikas Sinha
1bihar.blogspot.com

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InfoWagons as Microsoft launches rural-computing pilot programs in China and
India intended to fuel social and economic empowerment for the world’s
underserved populations.



    Bipin Mishra, a kiosk operator in rural Madhubani, Bihar State, India,
facilitated a videoconferencing session for Lalita Devi with a doctor in the
city of Patna, India.


    Bachcho Devi of Jitwarpur village explains: “I have been painting for the
last 40 years. But I have never received so many orders within such a short
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This is a must read for all concerned with developments in Bihar.

http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/19sl6.htm

I quote "I don't eat anything during lunch because I am not eligible
for the mid day meal scheme (the free lunch given to children up to
Class V), so I stay hungry till I get back for dinner."

In case it is misunderstood, the article is not about poverty but the
indomitable human spirit which always strives to improve its lot
against the heaviest odd. The very next line says

"I like the freestyle best but do the breast stroke too and am
learning the butterfly stroke. The three of us want to grow up and be
able to study and swim. We hope we can become very good swimmers one day."

The article also talks about some of the good work being done by Bihar
Education Project of the Govt of Bihar under the scholarly Anjani
Kumar Singh or Anjani Babu, as he is affectionately called.

All in all, a fabulous coverage of a wonderful development. Absolutely
fantastic.

Gandhi Setu unsafe for heavy vehicles
Madhuri Kumar
[ 5 Apr, 2007 0303hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

PATNA: Mahatma Gandhi Setu — Asia's longest road bridge— is under
heavy stress and has become unsafe for heavy vehicles. The continuous
wear and tear of the 5-km-long bridge now threatens to snap the vital
road link between Patna and north Bihar.

Strangely enough — while cracks have already developed on some of its
pillars — the state government refuses to admit that plying of heavy
vehicles may cause further damage to the bridge.

Traffic on the western flank of the bridge was stopped long back after
several of its piers were damaged due to de-stressing. This often
leads to traffic snarls. Even before the damaged piers could be fully
repaired, the eastern flank developed similar problem. Worse still,
hinge bearings of the bridge also wore out, compounding the problem.
Road construction department (RCD) secretary R K Singh said about 33
hinge bearings of the bridge have worn out and are virtually
non-functional. "While orders to replace 13 of them have been placed,
replacement of more hinges may become necessary when the repair work
actually begins," he said.

According to Singh, external pre-stressing is the only solution to
prolong the life of the bridge. "While external pre-stressing has been
done on some of the spams, work is on for four others," he added.
However, pre-stressing on all the spams of the bridge costs a
substantial amount.

For, an amount of Rs 1.25 crore is needed to pre-stress one spam alone.

On his part, RCD minister Nand Kishore Yadav said the Bihar government
has decided to start repair of the bridge on its own. "Though we sent
a detailed proposal to the Centre showing an estimated expenditure of
Rs 52 crore, the Union government has so far sanctioned only Rs 5
crore," he said.

Singh admitted the state government cannot wait any longer to repair
this all-important bridge. "The work will be taken up on a priority
basis," he said.

Commissioned in 1982, this balance cantilever bridge built by Gammon
India Ltd with pre-stress technology developed problems in barely two
decades.

Several other bridges across the country, built with the same design
but with slight modifications, are also reported to have developed
cracks. In fact, the Mandovi river bridge in Goa built with the same
technology collapsed 16 years into its commission while two other
bridges on the Zuari and Borim rivers, also in Goa, are reported to
have developed problems and have been closed for heavy traffic.

Bihar amends sugar Act to boost ethanol output
Business Standard
Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 06, 2007

The Bihar government has decided to allow production of ethanol
directly from sugarcane juice instead of the normal Indian practice of
processing sugarcane to produce sugar and using the molasses (a
byproduct) to produce ethanol.

"We have amended the Bihar Sugarcane (Regulation of Supply and
Purchase) Act, 1981, in March-end and now sugarcane juice can be
directly used for producing ethanol or rectified spirit and for
cogeneration", said Nitish Mishra, minister of state, cane
development.

The amendment also enables government to modify or alter the reserved
sugarcane area according to sugar mills' requirement. Further, payment
of cane to farmers has been made mandatory via cheques with the latest
amendment.

As sugar prices are unstable and the country is likely to face an
oversupply situation in sugar in the coming years, investors seem to
be shying away from new investments. They are finding it safer to
invest in distillery to produce ethanol or alcohol, Mishra added.

Bihar had a flourishing sugar industry some decades ago, but the
deteriorating law and order situation saw many companies pulling out
of the state. However, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been trying to
attract sugar companies to the state ever since he came to power.

The state has already bagged investments worth Rs 15,000 crore in
ethanol distillery and another Rs 4,500 crore in sugar since the state
government announced a new sugar-cum-ethanol policy for the state in
early 2006.

Leading sugar companies like Dhampur Sugar and Rajshree Sugar have
announced investments in the state. Mishra also said the Narkatiaganj
unit of C S Nopany's Oudh

Sugar has bagged orders for supplying 36,000 kilolitres of ethanol to
oil marketing companies for ethanol-blended programme in the state.

The Union ministry of petroleum has initiated a national programme for
5 per cent ethanol-blended petrol and is planning to increase it to 10
per cent.

Now, Bihar on Stanford University radar
Faizan Ahmad
[ 6 Apr, 2007 0233hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


PATNA: The famed Stanford University of the US and the Bihar
government have come together to discuss the changing policy matrix of
a state long known for poor development and bad governance.

Experts attending the two-day meet, named the Mirror Conference, are
of the view that the deliberations would go a long way in making Bihar
part of discussions in national and international academic circles.

For, the outcome of the conference here — being attended by luminaries
of Stanford University namely Professor Nicholas Hope, Anjini Kochar,
Ward Hanson and Jessica Wallack — will be mirrored in the next annual
conference of Stanford in June next.

Inaugurating the conference here on Thursday, chief minister Nitish
Kumar said during last one year Bihar has grappled with its
development matrix which has helped in bringing about far-reaching
policy changes in almost every segment of activity.

Nitish said in a state where the per capita income is one-third of the
national average, efforts are being made to grow at an average of 8.5
per cent GDP per annum. This, he said, will be a quantum jump from
past trend.

"We expect public outlay of about Rs 59,000 crore and private outlay
of Rs 1,08,000 crore during the 11th Plan. This means encouraging
public-private partnerships and further improving the climate for
private investment," the CM said.

He also took pride in telling participants that in the last year of
tenth Plan and last fiscal which ended on March 31, the performance of
the state showed dramatic improvement. "Against a Plan outlay of Rs
8,250 crore, our
expenditure has been Rs 8,646 crore exceeding the daunting target," he said.

Continuing in the same vein, he said: "For the first fiscal year of
eleventh Plan which began on April 1, the Planning Commission approved
an outlay of over Rs 10,000 crore. Going by our performance in the
last financial year, there will be a need to further enhance this
target."

Earlier, Prof Nicholas Hope, eminent economist T N Srinivasan and
Ramesh Yadav of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) threw light on the
importance of the Mirror Conference.

Bihar chief secretary A K Choudhary referred to the major decisions
taken by the state government. A power-point presentation was also
made detailing the achievements and plans of the government.

State Planning Board deputy chairman N K Singh said the initiatives
taken in Bihar in recent times caught the attention of Stanford
University. "Bihar lost two developmental decades and had been at the
receiving end of regional disparity and divide," he said.

ADRI member secretary Shaibal Gupta said an authentic sub-national
government is here which encompasses not only subaltern but also the
elite who had earlier abandoned Bihar.

"The chief minister is not scripting a sanitised resurgence but a
democratic-inclusive resurgence by making fundamental changes in the
present structure and institutions," he added.

Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, several ministers and top bureaucrats
were also present.

Prof Hope, on his part, renewed his invitation to the chief minister
to attend the June conference.

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Hon'ble CM of Bihar!
Sir,Let us pray that with sincere efforts being made by the Govt. of Bihar there
is no one like Jawahar Manjhi  remaining exploited. News item on the subject is
being reproduces for  kind attention please.
Indian endures 27 years labour for 40kg rice     Reuters | Wednesday, 28 March
2007

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4007669a12.html
  NEW DELHI: A villager in eastern India has been repaying a loan of 40 kg of
rice with 27 years of bonded labour, a newspaper reported.

Jawahar Manjhi, from the impoverished state of Bihar, took the rice from a
lender for a family wedding in exchange for him working in the lender's field.
It was agreed Manjhi, 45, would pay off one kg of rice for each day he worked.
But since then, Manjhi has taken more loans of rice and now has no idea how much
he has repaid.
"Originally the loan was about 40 kg," Manjhi was quoted as saying in the Times
of India. "Twenty-seven years on, I don't know how much have I repaid and how
much more I owe the lender."
Living in a one-room mud house with his wife and four children, the poor
labourer says he has no idea how the interest on the rice loan was calculated
and does not know how he will repay the entire loan in one lifetime.
He was told he would be freed from his bond if he paid 5000 rupees ($NZ161) – an
amount far beyond his reach.
Manjhi said there were "many more like me" in the area, but Bihar's labour
minister told the newspaper that the government was not aware of any bonded
labour in Bihar.
According to the government, around 20 per cent of India's billion-plus
population live below the poverty line and while strong economic growth has made
millions in the cities richer, it has bypassed many people living in rural
areas.
In recent years, there has been a spate of suicides by poverty-stricken farmers
unable to repay loans borrowed from village moneylenders at interest rates as
high as 60 per cent a month.


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Atul Kumar <atul.kr@...> wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:32:10 +0530
From: "Atul Kumar" <atul.kr@...>

  People are willing to work hard and looking for opportunities. Infrastructure
is improving in correct way. All Roads in Patna are getting Pucca Nullahs to 
avoid waterlogging during rainy seasons. For the change, anywhere you go, there
is optimism around.

Roads are clean. Clean & small City buses are available everywhere. Bandhs &
hartal are not everyday affairs. Even villages are getting electricity for 6-7
hours from Bhutan and that too at good voltage during day time. During night, it
is almost uninterrupted.
  It was after a long time that I have not heard of any major kidnapping
demanding ransom in crores while being there. BPSC just conducted some major
interviews. Talk in the town is that it was most fair interview without money
changing hands. People are getting recruited, but in contractual positions, so
they will not be lethargic & corrupt. I felt it from the moment I landed in
Patna and kept it confirming throughout my vacations from other sources. You can
feel changed air very much.

Bihar & Jharkhand now have seven mobile operators (Airtel, Aircel, Reliance GSM,
Reliance CDMA, BSNL GSM, BSNL CDMA, Tata Indicom) providing their services with
Airtel, BSNL & Reliance having almost 100% coverage.

  Now, what is needed is some good industrialization & job creation. Momentum has
started, but it cannot be sustained till there is job-creation in private
sector, strictly not in Govt. Also, too many educational opportunities will add
just noise. What we need is job for everyone, not for educated elites only.

  On different note, we should pray that CPM & Budhadeb bhattachaya are able to
drive the industrialization in Bengal. We are too far from Delhi, which allowed
NCR to develop and consequently other adjoining states. We are far away from any
port in absolute land-locked, flood-ravaged region. The nearest sea-port which
connects Bihar to Global Village is in Kolkata and if Bengal develops, Bihar too
will develop under "Hinterland effect".







Lt. Col. (Retd.) Bajrang Bihari Singh
Sec-5, Plot - 452
Vaishali, Ghaziabad
U.P.
Phone- 0120-2772949

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Six Hindi-speaking people were killed and 18 wounded
in two different separatist attacks, including a
powerful bomb explosion, in India's northeastern
states of Manipur and Assam, officials said on Friday.

Five people were killed in Manipur when armed
militants entered a bakery at Ningthoukhong village,
about 40 km south of Imphal, and opened fire at the
workers late on Thursday.

You may read more at
http://www.bhojpuria.com/samachar/news.php?a=2726

You may read one relavant story in Bhojpuri, about
Biharis in Assam, Maharastra and other states, at

http://www.bhojpuria.com/goto.php?page=sahitya/assam21feb7.htm

If you want to read about a story related to the
positive side of Bihar and its development, click here

http://www.bhojpuria.com/goto.php?page=sahitya/bihar21feb7.htm

Let all of us unite to criticise the killing of our
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In Bihar, cops herding kids to school
Radhika D Srivastava
[ 7 Mar, 2007 0138hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


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PATNA: With National Democratic Alliance in the saddle in Bihar, times
are changing in the state. And for a change, the men-in-khaki have
picked up slates and chalks. Not for studying themselves, but for
herding all out-of-school children to school.

The state is home to around 24 lakh children between six and 14 years
who do not go to school. In its effort to increase school enrolment,
the state government has hit upon a novel idea to use the police for
spreading the importance of education.

Local police constables now move around in neighbourhood villages
looking for children who should be in school. They also visit homes
and check out commercial establishments to locate child labourers.

The campaign has been on for about a month now and 20,000-odd new
students have already been added to the rolls of government primary
schools.

Preliminary reports say children feel very important to have policemen
requesting them to attend school. Policemen, on the other hand, are
enjoying their new role which allows them to break out of their
stereotypical "tough" image. Additional DG (HQ) Abhayanand said the
campaign has evoked good results.

"In the past one month, the task has not been very difficult. But now
our people will have to exert even more to keep the new enrolments
going," he said.

Among the families that do not send their children to school, a large
number are averse to school education. These are the people who need
counselling and coaxing the most. "We do not have a set method. We
have asked our district forces to innovate. They are using their own
ways to convince such families," the ADG said.

But there is no use of force. No threat.

The policemen have been asked to motivate both children and parents.
More than half of the children who do not study are believed to be
working as child labourers. "Our men visit shops and dhabas to see if
children have been employed there. These children are then enrolled in
schools," he said.

Abhayanand admitted the bigger challenge will be to ensure the newly-
enrolled children do not drop out. "We will tackle the qualitative
issues at a later stage. As of now, we want full enrolment," he said,
adding the education department would later have to step in to ensure
the schools function properly.

Govt dissolves inter-varsity board
[ 6 Mar, 2007 0238hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


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PATNA: The state government has dissolved the Bihar Inter-University
Board in order to grant complete autonomy to the state universities on
the pattern of Central universities.

The board had been set up to monitor development of universities and
regulate teaching and research in institutions of higher education in
the state.

Set up during the Emergency in 1975 by then CM Jagannath Mishra, the
board was also empowered to suggest ways for improving academic
standards, implement various examination reform measures and
development schemes of universities and to ensure uniform regulations
and statutes for all the universities.

But it was found that the board had miserably failed to preform the
tasks assigned to it. The Administrative Reforms Commission had also
recommended dissolution of the board.

The services of the employees of the board would be accommodated as
per provisions of the Bihar State Agricultural Marketing Board
(Dissolution) Bill, 2006.

Bihar's 'first' Economic Survey Report tabled
[ 7 Mar, 2007 0209hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


PATNA: For the first time in the annals of Bihar legislature, the
state government on Tuesday tabled the Status Report on Economic
Survey of Bihar 2006-07 in the Legislative Assembly.

Never before did any state government come out with the survey
document which contains factual information about the state's economy.

"Such a paper would also pave way for a public dialogue for attaining
the goal of good governance," deputy CM and state finance minister
Sushil K Modi said, adding it would now onwards be an annual exercise
ahead of the presentation of state budget.

The 2006-07 report indicates Bihar has lagged behind other states on
all the developmental indices. The state ranks at the bottom with
respect to Human Development Indicator (HDI) with the HDI for Bihar
being about 20 per cent lower than the national HDI.

The survey noted the market size in Bihar is estimated to be worth Rs
1,03,600 crore or 4.8 per cent of the country's market size. It has a
lower CD ratio than the national average, and despite some improvement
it is still one of the lowest in the country. A highly disadvantaged
economy is a general phenomenon in Bihar although it is not equally
present in all the districts, the report said. The per capita income
varies widely between Rs 6,958 (in Patna) to Rs 2,219 (in Sheohar).

Having an estimated 90.2 million population (83 million as per 2001
census), the state has 536.91 lakh people living below poverty line
(BPL). This when the number of BPL families has reduced at the
national level with the national BPL percentage being 19.34 only.

The state's total debt, about Rs 42,000 crore, constitutes 71 per cent
of its Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). The revenue account had a
deficit during the three years between 2001-02 and 2003-04, implying
that the funds meant for capital expenditure had to be diverted to the
revenue account. However, this deficit turned into surplus from
2004-05 onwards.

Similarly, the Gross Fiscal Deficit (GFD) has been consistently high
in recent years. In recent years, the state government's internal
market borrowings financed its GFD apart from the Public Accounts
receipts. The state's development expenditure constituted an average
of about 60 per cent of its total expenditure, but its share has
declined from 67 per cent in 2001-02 to 56 per cent in 2006-07. The
state's own revenue, both tax and non-tax, barely meets 20 per cent of
its total expenditure and the rest has to come from the Centre.

The state has a workforce of 4,35,394 as against the sanctioned
strength of 5,71,722. One fifth are grade IV and three fourth are
grade III employees. The salary and pension constitute the two most
important expenditure items. The total expenditure on salary and
allowances of these employees was Rs 5,783.35 crore which is projected
to go up to Rs 7,800 crore during 2006-07. The government spends 46
per cent of its total resources on salary and pension alone.

Interestingly, Bihar is among the best paymasters. The average annual
salary of a state government employee is Rs 1.8 lakh as against the
average Rs 1.21 lakh of a Central government employee. Even
"developed" states in the country pay less than what Bihar pays, the
report noted.

Bihar agri sector on downslide, services up: survey

newkerala.com

Patna, Mar 6: Despite agriculture being the mainstay of Bihar's
economy, it has grown by just 3.5 to 4.5 per cent since 2000-01, while
manufacturing and industry witnessed a decline from 6.59 per cent in
2000-01 to 4.17 per cent in 2004-05, but the services sector posted a
consistently high growth rate between 6.5 and 7.5 per cent.

The share of agriculture in the state's economy has fallen from 48.8
per cent from 1993-94 to 42 per cent in 2004-05, that of manufacturing
sector remained unaltered at nine per cent and services registered a
handsome growth from 41.3 to 49 per cent, according to the economic
survey 2006-07 presented in the Bihar assembly today by Deputy Chief
Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

The survey, the first presented in the Bihar legislature, said the
total flood-prone area in the state was 73.06 per cent of its
geographical area and 17.2 per cent of the total flood-prone area in
the country.

Identifying recurrent floods as a major roadblock in agricultural
development, it suggested construction of dams in upper catchment
areas of Kosi, Gandak, Bagmati and Mahanananda rivers to fight the
menance in the long run. In the short term it suggested construction
and maintenance of embankments along the rivers.

Stating that tubewells accounted for 63 per cent of created irrigation
capacity in the state, the survey said a very high dependence on
irrigation by tubewells and operation of diesel tubewells due to lack
of power infrastructure in rural areas translated into high cost and
inefficient irrigation.

--- PTI

IITs coming up in Bihar, Rajasthan, AP
ibnlive.com

Posted Tuesday , March 06, 2007 at 14:45


NEW PLANS IN THE OFFING: Government has decided to set up three new
IITs during 11th Five Year Plan.

New Delhi: The Government has decided to set up three new Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs) during 11th Five Year Plan, Rajya
Sabha was informed on Tuesday.


The premier institutes will be set up in Bihar in East, Rajasthan in
West and Andhra Pradesh in South, said Minister of State for Human
Resource Development D Purandeswari.


The minister said that the government has received a proposal from
Kerala to set up an IIT there but Scientific Advisory Committee to the
Prime Minister recommended that these should be set up in three states
in separate regions.


In another reply, the minister said the government is taking serious
note of the reported suicides incidents at various IITs. The
authorities at IIT campuses have decided to go for counselling,
seminars, helplines and modification of examination schemes to help
students during the examinations.


The performance of students is also being monitored every semester and
mechanisms are being set up so that the families are well informed
about the students' performance, the minister said.


With PTI inputs

Bihar to spend more

[ 7 Mar, 2007 0209hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]


PATNA: For the first time in Bihar, the state will end up spending
more than its annual plan allocation for the current fiscal.

Deputy CM and state finance minister Sushil Kumar Modi, while replying
to the debate on the budget presented for the year 2007-08, informed
the state Assembly that the state was poised to cross the expenditure
of its state plan size of Rs 8,250 crore for the fiscal 2006-07.

"We aim at spending Rs 8,670 crore by the end of this fiscal," Modi
said amidst thumping of desks by NDA benches. The state has had a
track record of not being able to spend its plan funds in the past.
Modi, however, said the NDA government would not allow funds to lapse.

Modi's reply to the debate, which focussed on "15 years of RJD rule
versus 15 months of NDA rule", took a dig at the RJD benches for
'financial mismanagement' and for shedding crocodile tears for the
poor during its rule.

RJD, CPI, CPM and Congress MLAs staged a walkout.

Ridiculing opposition charges that the NDA government has been unable
to spend, Modi said till January this year, most of the major
departments had spent a major portion of the funds allocated to them.
"The cooperatives have spent 99 per cent of their funds, health 78 per
cent, medical education 70 per cent, human resources 61 per cent,
industry 98 per cent, REO 95 per cent and the primary education
department has spent 84 per cent," he added.

The deputy CM also gave the expenditures of state plan during
Lalu-Rabri regime. "Your expenditure from 1993 to 2005 ranged from Rs
750 crore to Rs 3,124 crore," he told the RJD bench and alleged the
RJD was interested only in keeping people poor and organising 'Gareeb'
rallies. He criticised the previous regime for not presenting a full
budget and always resorting to vote on account.

Modi promised the NDA's record on this count would improve in coming
years. "We have finally got contractors. Also, our engineers, who
during the RJD regime did not know how to prepare a detailed project
report, have now learnt to prepare DPR," he said.

Modi also refuted opposition criticism of reduction in sales taxes on
150 items. "We followed the rule of bringing taxes at par with
neighbouring states because if our taxes remain high, we cannot stop
tax evasion," he said, adding collection of commercial tax and excise
has increased. He also said the reversal of the previous regime's
decision on road tax hike has actually led to the revival of transport
industry. He quoted figures, indicating a 25 per cent rise in sales of
various vehicles in the state.
Modi also refuted the opposition charge that there was nothing for the
poor and farmers in the state budget. In this regard, he cited several
new schemes like uniforms for girl students, cycles to 1.87 lakh girl
students and policy for compensations to BPL families and migrant
labourers.

Modi said though NDA's 15-month regime does not claim to have
transformed Bihar into a heaven, the process of reopening closed units
has started.

Several MLAs, including Vinod Narayan Jha (BJP), Ram Das Rai (RJD),
Ram Dev Verma (CPM) and Lallan Paswan (JD-U), participated in the
four-hour-long debate.

Women become force to reckon with in panchayats
March 07, 2007 12:36 IST
Last Updated: March 07, 2007 13:27 IST
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Women panchayat leaders have succeeded in enlarging their
representation beyond the 33 per cent seats reserved for them in the
local bodies with Bihar leading with over 54 per cent representation
of women in the village bodies.

As International Women's Day celebrations focus on the issue of
empowerment of women, according to latest statistics, the fairer sex
has increased its involvement in decision-making at the village level
with 9.7 lakh of the 28 lakh elected panchayat representatives being
women.

A total of 36.7 per cent of the panchayat representatives are women,
according to `The State of the Panchayats,' a mid-term review and
appraisal of the panchayati raj system.

Bihar has the highest number of women panchayat leaders at 54.1 per
cent, followed by Karnataka where 42.9 per cent of the elected
representatives at the village level are women, as on December 1,
2006.

In all states except Goa, where the percentage of women panchayat
leaders was recorded at 30.2 per cent, women formed more than 33 per
cent of the elected representatives in the villages.

"With every succeeding panchayat election, women have been able to
considerably enlarge their representation beyond the minimum 33 per
cent prescribed by the Constitution," the report said even as the Bill
for 33 per cent reservation of seats for women in Lok Sabha and Vidhan
Sabhas has been hanging fire.

The report said while earlier reservations for women were a matter of
ridicule, now stories of women being puppets in the hands of male
relatives and similar anecdotal accounts have become rare.

"Women have begun to take full charge of their official
responsibilities in panchayats," it said.

The selected women representatives have been increasingly ensuring
their effective participation in budget preparation and the
identification of criteria to guide panchayats to specially prepare
gender-sensitive budgets.

"In several states, the impact of two parallel developments, that is,
the political representation of women in panchayats and the women's
self-help group movement, have dramatically altered gender equations
and given women a new sense of self-confidence and self-worth," the
report said.

Bihar MLAs deplore 'non-cooperation' of banks in funding SJGRY

newkerala.com

Patna, Mar 7: Bihar legislators today expressed concern in the
assembly over the "non-cooperation" by public sector banks in funding
the Swarna Jayanti Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SJGRY).

The government then assured the house that it will take up the matter
with the union Finance Minister.

The matter was raised through a short notice question of LJP's
Maheshwar Singh who wanted to know why only Rs 72 crore of the Rs 364
crore meant for funding the Self Help Groups and individuals under
SJGRY during 2006-07 had been spent so far.

Replying to the question, Rural Development minister Baidyanath Prasad
Mahato disputed the member's figure, saying Rs 117.74 crore, around 37
per cent of the target, had been spent, but admitted that the banks
were not adequately cooperating in disbursing the funds.

He said 9728 SHGS and 40,831 individuals had benefited from the scheme.

"The government has warned the banks that if they do not make adequate
advance, the government will stop depositing development funds with
them," he said.

RJD's Ramchandra Purve deplored the "non-cooperation" of the banks and
wanted to know if the government intended to get the matter probed by
an independent agency or a committee of the house.

Ramdev Verma (CPI-M) suggested an inquiry by the state police into the
matter, alleging the banks had "vested interest" in not extending
sufficient advances to the rural poor.

--- PTI

Bihar agri sector on downslide, services up: survey
  newkerala.com

Patna, Mar 6: Despite agriculture being the mainstay of Bihar's
economy, it has grown by just 3.5 to 4.5 per cent since 2000-01, while
manufacturing and industry witnessed a decline from 6.59 per cent in
2000-01 to 4.17 per cent in 2004-05, but the services sector posted a
consistently high growth rate between 6.5 and 7.5 per cent.

The share of agriculture in the state's economy has fallen from 48.8
per cent from 1993-94 to 42 per cent in 2004-05, that of manufacturing
sector remained unaltered at nine per cent and services registered a
handsome growth from 41.3 to 49 per cent, according to the economic
survey 2006-07 presented in the Bihar assembly today by Deputy Chief
Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

The survey, the first presented in the Bihar legislature, said the
total flood-prone area in the state was 73.06 per cent of its
geographical area and 17.2 per cent of the total flood-prone area in
the country.

Identifying recurrent floods as a major roadblock in agricultural
development, it suggested construction of dams in upper catchment
areas of Kosi, Gandak, Bagmati and Mahanananda rivers to fight the
menance in the long run. In the short term it suggested construction
and maintenance of embankments along the rivers.

Stating that tubewells accounted for 63 per cent of created irrigation
capacity in the state, the survey said a very high dependence on
irrigation by tubewells and operation of diesel tubewells due to lack
of power infrastructure in rural areas translated into high cost and
inefficient irrigation.

--- PTI

Reproduced below is an opening on the subject "Orphan Schooling" by an IIT-ian
crusader Abhishek Prabhat.


  It may be acknowledged that the highest index of merit of childhood is
orphanage - a gift of the Almighty to the child who should be listed first among
the most deserving ones.

Abhishek is in the process of building the  contents for a full scale
presentation.


Let all friends who wish to contribute by thoughts, affirmation and
participation say YES to Abhishek.





Contents
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                           Investing in Education    It is an accepted fact that
investment in education is in general a fruitful venture. This is even truer for
developing nations. In a country where the only thing in abundance is human
population we should strive to convert this liability into strength. India is
plagued with disguised unemployment. We keep on producing more and more people
with fewer assets and skills. In a sense the country can be visualized as a
family. Just as a family with little land (and other resource) is less likely to
have a good standard of living similarly a country with little small per capita
land may not be well off. However such families can also prosper provided the
members are highly skilled namely doctors, engineers, technician, etc. In fact
countries with better human resource are far more prosperous than countries with
mere better natural resources.

   Consider for a moment a thought experiment wherein all the beggars in India
are made to vanish. Would there be a class of people (excepting the beggars and
their dear ones) who would mind their absence? In other words materially this
should be a favorable deal  though ethically it may be a colossal crime against
humanity. The same thing cannot said about doctors, bus drivers, shop keepers,
and other productive professions. Similarly petty hawkers, rikshaw pullers,
manual labors are in supply far excess than their demand. This never-ending
supply feeds on the fact that unproductive people produce even greater number of
unproductive people in their next generation.

   Productiveness is not a genetic phenomenon. It is partly innate and partly
result of environment and training. Distribution of talent as such is much the
same across countries and races. That is, roughly the same fraction of
population would qualify for being ‘gifted’ whether we do the survey in Japan,
Germany, England, Somalia, Bihar or anywhere else. Similarly we have no reason
to infer that manual labors are so because of their inferior reasoning. In other
words the pool of talent lurks everywhere, even in the dark. What is responsible
for the plight of daily wage earners is not their inherent inability but lack of
training.

   Welfare state
   All governments realize the above fact and consequently strive to provide free
education. The state tries to do it the following way.

    Tax      and borrow money from the people.
    Provide      free education.
    Earn      higher revenues from the highly productive workforce and pay off
the      loans.

   However it must be emphasized that quality of education makes immense
difference in the quality of product. So though India may have improved upon
literacy rates the quality of our graduates has not been up to mark. Also poor
schooling breaks the jinx of illiteracy but it does not result in marked
improvement in income of the investor (namely the student and his/her family).
This further demoralizes other potential school goers.

   The objective behind the current effort is to follow similar strategy but to
do it in a responsible and cost effective manner so as to sustain it in the long
run.
      Target Group  There has been an increase in the parent’s tendency to send
their wards to better schools. However a huge majority of Indian population
cannot afford schools let alone better schools. The govt. schools available (if
at all) are not inspirable. Still in absence of better alternatives most of the
upcoming population receive some elementary education. However there is sizable
number of children who do not avail even this minimal opportunity, namely the
orphan. Most of them lack a home and guardian. In a sense they are the most
deprived of the lot. However this disadvantage can be converted to advantage.
Orphans are easy to relocate. Orphan education can be developed as a
commercially feasible activity.

   The Plan
   Choose Orphans
   Orphans are easy to relocate. Since there are no strings attached, an orphan
can be easily moved to another city (or state). Thus the problem that good
schools and the deprived exist in mutually exclusive locations is eliminated.
Secondly, the institution itself becomes the home for student. The affection and
commitment of the resident student for the institution would be unprecedented.
Consequently the payback would be higher compared to the case where the primary
concern of the alumnus is his immediate family.

   Go Rural  Education is a footloose industry. In urban areas schools are
already over crowded. The growing middle class sector in cities (both big and
small) itself faces high competition for admissions in school. Moreover real
estate and operational costs in city school is high enough to make it well
beyond the reach of slum dwellers. In a residential school where the students
are not drawn from the locality, the cheapest place where a school can be run
should be chosen. Small townships and villages can be potential sites. Such
school can also incidentally serve the local village population. Labor, food
grains, vegetable would be cheaply available. It will also generate limited
employment and provide educated youth a chance to work in their native place.

   Teachers  The single most important requirement for a good school is presence
of good teachers. Indian universities, especially in tier II cities produce
adequate number of science and art graduates who go un-rewarded. With
respectable salaries, it may not be difficult to attract grade one teachers.
Moreover good teachers are not born, they are made.

   Warden  The hostel need not be a hostel in the canonical sense. It will be a
home and not hostel for the orphans. Therefore the concept of warden needs
evolution in our case. Caring and sincere middle-aged couples can be employed to
look after the residence. In fact many of the teachers can function as full time
participants in the school. The entire school, including the residential and
academic block will be a single unit for the residents. The wardens have to be
the guardian and abundant caution needs to be exercised in grooming the kids.
      Medium of Education  ENGLISH! It is true that local languages represent our
rich cultural background but when it comes to being professionally productive no
language can beat English in the current times. In fact good command over the
English language is sometimes sufficient to secure reasonable livelihood. Thus
English should be chosen as the preferred medium of communication even in the
hostel. Command over English language would also greatly improve the reach over
print and Internet media. It makes perfect sense to create scholars who are
blend of ‘Bhojpuri’ and ‘British English’.

   Uni-dimensional Development  All around development does not necessarily
require expensive equipment and rich infrastructure. Sports activity should
include easily manageable games like football, basketball etc. Similarly
sophisticated labs are not required at an early stage. There should be close
association with the local village population and this itself can bring
awareness in the localites and also serve as a source of extracurricular
activity for the students. The focus should be on studies and therefore the
development can be loosely said to be uni-dimensional. However in reality there
can be multi faceted development even with scarce resources.

   Initial Phase  There is no need for complete infrastructure and resource to
start the project. In the beginning a house can be rented and the project can
take off with the help of few caretakers (as a private hostel) and a tie up with
an existing school. Gradually the school and teaching faculty can also be
arranged. Even in the case when the school is started and affiliation from the
board not received, studies till class VIII (or XI) can be imparted within the
institute and the last year can be enrolled at an affiliated school.

   Funds  The organization has to start with funds donated by motivated
individuals. However larger public participation can be drawn by transparent and
up to date publication of balance sheet on the Internet. Thus donations to the
organization would not amount to donation to the black hole. The day-to-day
requirement, surplus and expenditure in the various heads would be available for
public viewing.

   Alternatively long-term bonds (or promissory Notes) can be issued and the
returns linked to the profit of the organization. Thus instead of making it a
purely charity based activity it can be developed as a charity-cum-investment
opportunity.

   Still further, a Public Private Partnership can also be forged. In principle
the state should find it favorable that the underprivileged are educated by a
third party and the increased revenue be shared between the two. Assuming that
un-educated deprived population does not contribute to the state as a tax payer
it makes sense for the state to promise a share in the future revenues to the
organization responsible for the increase. This requires a statute to be passed
from the legislature and is therefore more likely possible only as long-term
relief measure.

   Challenges
    Identification      of bright orphans.
    Recruitment      of hostel attendants and warden.
    Co-ed      or not
    Collaboration      with existing schools.
    Cost      cutting

   Conclusion  An organized effort can dramatically change the lives of the
abandoned kids who cease to live a human life. An organization, which intends to
survive long, cannot do it on state and private charity. There is no source of
perpetual donation. Family system survives because parents invest in their
children and reap the benefits in the later stage. A schooling system can also
be similarly modeled. There are bright kids near trashcans waiting to be taken
to school. There are sincere graduates looking forward to livelihood opportunity
in their small town. There are educated and settled couples looking for
‘meaning’ in the second half of their lives. There are plenty who can pledge
their nickel if it doesn’t goes down the drain. The task ahead is to assemble
the components, which lie scattered in the society and form a living body.


Lt. Col. (Retd.) Bajrang Bihari Singh
Sec-5, Plot - 452
Vaishali, Ghaziabad
U.P.
Phone- 0120-2772949

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It is being increasingly realized that embankment on rivers cause more
problems than provide solutions.

Floods in Bihar, since ancient times have been more of a boon than curse.

Friends and well wishers of farmers of Bihar plains may like to read an article
by Dinesh Mishra an IIT-ian activist on:
http://www.himalmag.com/2007/march/analysis2.htm
The Bagmati’s final sealing
                    The middle section                      of the Bagmati River
in Bihar is too unstable for embanking,                      but the Patna
government is attempting to push through an                      INR 8 billion
project to do just that.
"Farmers welcome floods because silt contained in floodwaters
provides the fields with an annual supplement of nutrients.                     
Embanking rivers causes that silt to be trapped within the                     
embankments, both depriving farmers of its benefits and causing
the level of the riverbed to rise. While engineers must then
keep raising the embankments in order to keep pace with the                     
rising bed of the river, there is also a limit to which embankments
can be raised and maintained. Will embanking the entire length
of the river do away with this problem? Will it prevent seepage
through the embankments into the surrounding land? These are
issues planners in Patna must think about."


Lt. Col. (Retd.) Bajrang Bihari Singh
Sec-5, Plot - 452
Vaishali, Ghaziabad
U.P.
Phone- 0120-2772949

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