Tag: Bihar

  • Protest over centre’s Agnipath scheme spreads to different portions of Bihar

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    Patna: Protest over the centre executive’s Agnipath scheme for momentary recruitment of Military body of workers unfold to different districts of Bihar on Thursday. Braving the sizzling solar, masses of process aspirants submit highway blockades, burnt tyres and disrupted the motion of trains in Jehanabad, Nawada and Saharsa districts within the early hours of Thursday.

    Experiences stated the process seekers submit a highway blockade and held demonstration close to Prajatantra Chowk in Nawada the city. They later proceeded against the railway station, squatted on tracks and disrupted the motion of trains. Consequently, a number of trains, together with Howrah-Gaya Categorical and Gaya-Kiul passenger remained stranded at Warsaliganj and Tilaiya railway stations, respectively.

    Nawada sub-divisional Umesh Kumar Bharti in conjunction with different officers rushed to the spot and attempted to take away the protestors, who weren’t in a temper to relent.

    Sub-divisional police officer Upendra Prasad stated efforts had been directly to pacify the protestors and repair visitors at the direction. “We have now sought further forces to handle the location,” he stated.

    An identical protests through process aspirants had been held in Saharsa and Jehanabad districts. The district government deployed armed police forces to convey the location beneath keep an eye on. Alarmed over the protest spreading to different districts, the state police headquarters alerted the entire SPs and requested them to start up preventive
    steps accordingly.

    Previous on Wednesday, masses of process aspirants took to the streets and blocked Nationwide Freeway 28 in Muzaffarpur through burning tons of tyres and hoardings. Additionally they squatted on railway tracks at Buxar railway station at the Howrah-New Delhi line.

    Activity aspirants declare that their occupation can be jeopardised if the Agnipath scheme was once applied as most effective as much as 25 consistent with cent of the recruits or Agniveers might get a normal fee.

    Common recruitment rallies had been stopped round two years in the past after the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. After two years of looking ahead to the common recruitment, the federal government has presented them a momentary recruitment scheme, which can most effective create uncertainties of their lives, process aspirants had been heard shouting in protest throughout the state.

    ““Bharti do ya arthi do’ (recruit us or kill us) was once a number of the slogans because the protesting jobseekers burnt tyres and hoardings in tons on NH-28 in Muzaffarpur, which connects Bihar’s Barauni with Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

    In Muzaffarpur, masses of other people laced with wood sticks took to the streets and registered their protest outdoor the Military recruitment administrative center. Later, they blocked a highway in Maripur through burning tyres. Additionally they insisted that an Military officer will have to come to the spot and concentrate to their grievances.

    In Buxar, demonstrators squatted close to parcel go-down of Buxar railway station, disrupting the motion of a educate for a minimum of one hour. Later, they cleared tracks following intervention through the RPF, GRP and district police body of workers.

    A protester stated, “The military will have to carry the age bar as youths have misplaced two years because of the pandemic.”
    “The federal government is enjoying a sport with us like PUBG,” quipped a protester. 

    Any other protester in Buxar stated, “What are we able to do in those simply 4 years as even MPs and MLAs get five-year phrases.” In Begusarai too, NCC cadets and teens making ready for Military jobs put a highway blockade on the Har-Har Mahadev roundabout. Additionally they carried placards, not easy rollback of the Agnipath scheme and revival of the previous recruitment procedure.

  • Maximum Bihar MLC applicants to win unopposed 

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    PATNA:  With Congress saying that it could no longer box a candidate within the biennial election to Bihar Legislative Council beneath the MLA quota, all of the seven applicants from RJD, JD-U and BJP are prone to get elected unopposed.

    Bihar Congress legislature celebration chief Ajit Sharma stated on Wednesday that his celebration would no longer box someone because it didn’t have the considered necessary numerical power within the state Meeting.  

    RJD has fielded Munni Rajak, a fisherwoman who may be the overall secretary of the celebration’s state girls’s mobile. Whilst the verdict shocked many, Munni’s oratory talents are stated to have labored in her favour.

    In a similar way, RJD’s early life wing president Qari Sohaib, additionally identified to be a honest employee, has been awarded the MLC seat. The 3rd candidate is Ashok Kumar Pandey, whose circle of relatives has been with RJD for a very long time, as his father, Shivbachan Pandey, was once related to it for 30 years.

    In the meantime, JD-U’s MLC applicants Afaque Ahmad Khan and Ravindra Singh have additionally been with Nitish Kumar because the Nineteen Eighties. Khan is now the celebration’s nationwide basic secretary whilst Singh is the nationwide secretary. BJP’s applicants Anil Sharma and Hari Sahni also are identified to be devoted staff.

  • Bihar proposes hike of minimal wages of Rs 48 for unorganised sector staff

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    PATNA: Bihar Minimal Wages Advisory Board has really useful a fifteen consistent with cent hike in minimal wages for staff of the unorganised sector within the state on Monday.

    The state govt has sought tips from folks, representatives of quite a lot of labour unions and
    organisations eager about the proposal. If the brand new wages come into impact, a employee in Bihar can be paid Rs 48 greater than the prevailing day by day wages of Rs 318. The larger fee of wages can be enforced within the state after finishing the desired formalities within the subsequent two months.

    Bihar labour assets minister Jibesh Kumar mentioned that the minimal wages are revised after each 5 years. An offer to hike minimal wages was once handed at a gathering of the state minimal wages advisory board hung on Monday.

    He published a labourer gets minimal wages of Rs 366 consistent with day after a proper notification is issued via the state govt. Round 3 crore staff within the unorganised sector can be benefited from the proposal.

    “The hike in minimal wages has been proposed within the wake of worth upward thrust. Professional, semi-skilled and unskilled staff engaged in 88 devices that supplied activity alternatives to them can be paid a brand new fee of minimal wages,” a senior respectable of the labour assets division mentioned.

    A complete of two,82,53,941 staff from Bihar have thus far registered themselves at the e-Shram portal introduced via the central govt. The registered staff can be issued virtual identification playing cards quickly. Bihar ranked 2nd after Uttar Pradesh, which has altogether 8.28 crore staff registered at the portal.

    West Bengal is ranked because the 3rd place with 2.55 crore labourers registering themselves at the portal. Bihar has completed 80.75 consistent with cent of the mounted goal on the subject of registration while all staff have registered themselves at the portal.

    In line with authoritative resources, 16.94 consistent with cent of staff are from the overall magnificence, 57.95 consistent with cent from the backward magnificence, 20.28 consistent with cent from the SCs and four.82 consistent with cent from the STs have registered themselves at the portal.

  • Caste-based depend can be foolproof, really helpful for all sections of society: Nitish

    “As soon as finished, it is going to be style for different states enthusiastic about carrying out identical workout. We can do correct headcount in order that nobody is neglected. It’ll be really helpful for all sections of society.”

  • All-party assembly on caste-based census in Bihar rescheduled for June 1

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    PATNA: The all-party assembly at the caste-based census in Bihar has been rescheduled for June 1. Previous, it used to be made up our minds to convene a gathering at the factor on Would possibly 27. In line with authoritative assets within the leader minister’s place of job, the assembly shall be held at Samvad at 4 pm. The leaders of all political events had been invited to the assembly to percentage their perspectives at the factor.

    Deputy leader minister and BJP chief Tarkishore Prasad mentioned that the BJP would take part within the all-party meet scheduled for June 1. “The BJP management will come to a decision the title of the social gathering’s consultant for the assembly,” he added.

    The all-party assembly shall be adopted via cupboard approval at the proposal to carry a caste-based census within the state from its personal assets. The call for for a caste-based census has been pending for a very long time. Previous, the proposal used to be handed via the state legislature two times.

    On Monday leader minister Nitish Kumar had mentioned {that a} ultimate choice at the date of the all-party assembly can be introduced after session with leaders of political events. Then again, many of the leaders had previous agreed on Would possibly 27.

    Resources mentioned the assembly has been rescheduled because of nominations for the Rajya Sabha, which began on Tuesday. The remaining date of nomination is Would possibly 31 and scrutiny of papers shall be completed on June 1. The chief of the opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had met Nitish and held a closed-door assembly at the factor of a caste-based census within the state. 

  • Bihar Congress to have new leader quickly as AICC in-charge sents contemporary checklist to celebration top command

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    PATNA: Bihar Congress could have a brand new leader quickly because the AICC in-charge of Bihar, Bhakta Charan Das has despatched a contemporary checklist of probables to the celebration top command Sonia Gandhi to take a last name at the subject. Now, it’s as much as the Congress top command how early it takes a last determination at the factor.

    It’s, on the other hand, anticipated that it must now not take a lot time as Bihar Congress has deliberate to release a sequence of programmes to energize state celebration leaders and staff forward of ‘padyatra’ from Kashmir to Kanyakumari on October 2.

    In this sort of scenario, the celebration top command might to find it suitable to transparent the air through appointing a brand new state president of the celebration. Resources stated that Das has despatched a listing of 45 probables to the celebration top command to quite a lot of posts, together with the state president.

    Congress legislature celebration chief Ajit Sharma showed that the checklist of possible were supplied to Sonia Gandhi through the Bihar -in-charge of the celebration. “We are hoping the state unit gets a brand new president on the earliest,” he informed the media after paying floral tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on the state celebration headquarters
    on Saturday.

    Resources stated Das has additionally really helpful the names of possible applicants for the submit of celebration co-in-charge and deputy in-charge to the celebration top command for easy functioning of the celebration in Bihar.

    The AICC in-charge’s checklist has reportedly now not long past down neatly with a bit of state senior celebration leaders who had even taken up the subject with basic secretary KC Venugopal. Das’s checklist contains the identify of senior celebration chief Rajesh Ram for the submit of state president.

    There are a number of different contenders for the highest celebration submit because the names of Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Kadwa MLA Shakeel Ahmad Khan, state Congress operating president and MLC Sameer Kumar Singh, MLC Prem Chandra Mishra, former MLA and  Bihar Mahila Congress president Amita Bhushan amongst others are doing the rounds.

    State Congress operating president Sameer Kumar Singh used to be remarkably candid when he claimed that a number of arguable names at quite a lot of ranges were proposed to the celebration top command. “The celebration’s pastime will also be harmed if those persons are appointed to the submit,” he added.

    It’s been greater than a month since state president Madan Mohan Jha resigned from his submit all through his discuss with to New Delhi.

    Relating to a proposed programme to be undertaken through the celebration, Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari stated that the Early life Congress and the NSUI participants would take out ‘Ek Rozgar Do Yatra’ quickly in enhance of its call for for a central authority task for one member of a circle of relatives.

    As well as, the Bihar Congress can even cling a two-day conclave from June 1. The conclave could be attended through celebration representatives from quite a lot of districts and blocks and discussions could be held for formulating a solution to give a boost to the celebration’s enhance base within the state.

    In a similar way, the celebration can even organise a district-level camp on June 11, the place every district will probably be assigned to a state celebration chief who will probably be accountable for supervising the preparations for the camp.

  • Prashant Kishor to release ‘just right governance marketing campaign’ from Vaishali in Bihar on Would possibly 20

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    PATNA: Political strategist became activist Prashant Kishor is ready to release his ‘Jan Suraaj Abhiyan’ (just right governance marketing campaign) from Bihar’s Vaishali district on Would possibly 20, a lot forward of his proposed 3,000-km ‘padayatra’ at the instance of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2.

    Vaishali, 20 km from the state capital Patna, is referred to as the fortress of democracy. Folks related to the ‘Jan Suraaj Abhiyan’ mentioned that Kishor would transfer round Vaishali for every week and apprise folks of the target in the back of his marketing campaign for just right governance within the state. He’ll duvet 20 districts all over his three-month marketing campaign.

    “The speculation in the back of the release of ‘Jan Suraaj Abhiyan’ is to apprise folks of the idea that of ‘Jan Suraaj’ (just right governance). Kishor will have interaction with folks at district and sub-divisional headquarters all over his marketing campaign,” an activist related to the marketing campaign confided on Wednesday.

    At this time, he’s assembly with scholars, lecturers, intellectuals, political activists and above all early life who would be the centre degree of his marketing campaign. Ultimate week, a two-term MLC Sachchidanand Sinha met Kishor at his Sheikhpura Mor place of abode in Patna and mentioned the method.

    On Would possibly 5, Kishor had introduced that he would adopt a three,000-km lengthy ‘padayatra’ from West Champaran on October 2. Regardless that he didn’t flow any political celebration as anticipated previous, he printed that he would now not turn into president or any necessary administrative center bearer of the political outfit created on tips of the folk.

    “Something is certain that I can now not turn into the president of the political celebration floated at the advice of the folk. I’ve come right here with the only goal to paintings for the betterment of the state. I can attempt to convey all the ones individuals who want for Bihar’s betterment on a platform,” he had advised the media.

  • Rahul’s feedback at regional events ‘peculiar’, out of sync with Congress’ personal declaration: RJD

    He referred to the Congress declaration on the camp to take a swipe at him, announcing Gandhi will revise his remark if he appears at information. These types of statements haven’t any traction with historical past, he stated

  • Bihar politics: Left will have a look at any political system to prevent BJP from taking price

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    KOLKATA: The CPIML(L), which has emerged as the most important Left birthday party in Bihar, perspectives the BJP and its ideology as the primary risk to the communist motion, apprehending that the saffron birthday party will try to consolidate its place through fielding its personal candidate as leader minister of the electorally an important state forward of the 2024 common elections.

    The CPIML (Liberation), which had by myself clinched 12 out of the 16 seats the Leftist events bagged in Bihar within the 2020 meeting elections, stated they have been keen to “have a look at any political system” to prevent the upward push of the BJP.

    “We imagine the BJP will take a look at to herald their very own guy as leader minister because it feels the software in their best friend Nitish Kumar has diminished…they’ll try to advertise Kumar for the vp’s chair or ease him out in another approach,” stated CPIML (Liberation) Normal Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya in an interview.

    Hypothesis was once rife that the BJP might title Kumar as its vice-president nominee, regardless that the JD(U), which he heads, has scotched such rumours.

    The Communist A part of India Marxist-Leninist (L) chief, who is going through his first title and is right here to wait his birthday party’s convention, has been running along with his colleagues for many years to construct an electoral base in Bihar and Jharkhand.

    Dipankar additionally predicted that the BJP might “attempt to get a divorce each JD(U) and the Congress within the state” to cement its place forward of the 2024 common elections.

    He identified that the BJP had a historical past of doing so with a purpose to shape governments in states the place they’re a part of ruling alliances.

    “It’ll do a UP (Uttar Pradesh) in Bihar,” he predicted, relating to the best way Bahujan Samaj Birthday party and Congress have been cut up within the past due Nineties into separate events, and the breakaway factions lent strengthen to the BJP to make Kalyan Singh the manager minister of the state.

    Whilst BJP has controlled to consolidate its cling over maximum portions of North India, it hasn’t ever had a major minister from its ranks in 3 north Indian states, Bihar, Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir.

    Bihar is essentially the most populous of those 3 states, but even so being the one one that is a part of the Hindi heartland, contributing 40 MPs to the Lok Sabha.

    Within the remaining 2019 common elections, the BJP received 17 of its seats from this state. Analysts indicate that Nitish Kumar too has been quietly taking steps.

    For one, he walked throughout to his predecessor Rabri Devi’s area for an Iftar birthday party remaining month, the place he chatted with management of the RJD, which her husband Lalu Prasad based.

    Per week later, RJD’s Tejaswi Yadav was once invited to an Iftar birthday party hosted through JD(U)’s minority mobile and Kumar walked the younger Yadav chief to his automotive.

    In a state the place a lot is learn into symbolic gestures, those acts in addition to Kumar’s pronouncements on Common civil code and on loudspeakers which gave the look to be at odds with BJP’s place, are being observed as portents through political pundits, regardless that the JD(U) has been terming them as “customary civil gestures”.

    For Nitish Kumar, a damage with BJP and going over to sign up for palms with RJD may see JD(U)’s higher caste supporters parting techniques with it and strolling away to the saffron camp, say analysts.

    The chance of an alliance with RJD and Congress may additionally result in a compromise at the leader minister’s submit, which the Lalu Prasad-led birthday party might neatly call for.

    Whilst Dipankar refused to take a position on the opportunity of Janata Dal (United) breaking with the BJP, he stated “our intention is to prevent the BJP and we can at all times have a look at any political system which is able to reach that”.

    Within the remaining elections held in 2020, the Left events had joined palms with the Congress and the RJD to shape the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (mega-united coalition) which had received 110 out of 243 meeting seats.

    The NDA received 125 seats. Even though the only greatest birthday party was once RJD with 75 seats with the BJP closing at quantity two spot with 74 seats, the manager minister-ship went to the saffron birthday party’s best friend Nitish Kumar as he was once essentially the most appropriate face within the alliance for the task.

    The doorway of the novice at the state’s political firmament — Prashant Kishor — albeit with a building platform which might turn out to be right into a political birthday party may be being watched with passion through the previous Naxalite birthday party. Alternatively, the CPIML (L) chief stated “we now have but to grasp PK we’re finding out his experiment.”

  • Bihar training minister irked by means of shedding of chapters on non-alignment, Islamic empires by means of CBSE

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    PATNA: Bihar’s two ruling allies — the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) and Janata Dal United (JDU) — have locked horns over the CBSE shedding chapters concerning the Non-Aligned Motion and the upward thrust of Islamic empires in Indo-African territories amongst others from the historical past and political science syllabi of Categories eleventh and twelfth.

    But even so those, the CBSE has additionally proposed to drop chapters concerning the Chilly Conflict generation, the chronicles of Mughals and the Commercial Revolution.

    Contending that there used to be no justification for shedding those chapters, Bihar training minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary stated on Monday that he had no professional details about CBSE shedding the chapters from the historical past and political science syllabi of Categories eleventh and twelfth.

    He stated High Minister Narendra Modi had opened a High Minister’s Museum as the approaching technology would be capable of know concerning the nation’s historical past by means of visiting it. Kids would additionally know concerning the Non-Aligned Motion and Mughal rule, he added.

    Chaudhary stated that the Non-Aligned Motion used to be led by means of former High Minister Indira Gandhi and later the Shimla settlement used to be signed. Even now when any dialogue is held with Pakistan, the neighbouring nation is reminded of the Shimla settlement, he added.

    “We learn about outdated problems simplest as a result of we learn historical past, there’s no justification for eliminating those chapters from the CBSE syllabi,” Chaudhary, who is thought of as on the subject of Leader Minister Nitish Kumar, stated.

    On the other hand, labour assets minister Jibesh Kumar stated that the CBSE’s suppose thank had accomplished a stupendous activity by means of shedding the ones chapters. He stated the presentation of distorted information in historical past textbooks used to be towards cultural nationalism. “The chapters protecting distorted historical past had been an insult to the country and must be indisputably dropped,” he contended.

    He asserted that kids must learn the fantastic historical past of the rustic. The principle opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal additionally raised objection over elimination of chapters from the CBSE’s syllabi. Chief of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav stated it used to be a incorrect precedent.