Patna: The State Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to install Jammers in all prisons to thwart criminal activities from behind bars.
Adarsh Jail, Beur (Patna) and Mandal Prison in Hajipur will be taken as a pilot project, Secretary of the Head of the Cabinet Secretariat Sanjay Kumar said.
Bharat Electronic Limited (bell) will carry out the project in two prisons in the first phase, requiring RS19.52 Crore expenditure.
Kumar said that regardless of the use of cellphones by inmates in prison, reported the surface on criminals who used it to regulate crime through their colleagues and Henchmen.
Jammers will control such activities.
The cabinet also approved the creation of 5,334 headmaster posts in high school located in Pancayats, which did not have high school.
It also deletes the transfer of 40,518 elementary school teachers, which are under the scope of Pancayati Raj (PRI) and local urban bodies, to the Ministry of Education.
After this was done, the ‘Pradhan’ (head) teacher would be appointed from between them.
The Cabinet also approved the replacement of the name of the Bihar Military Police as Special Armed Police Bihar (BSAP) and the creation of the Bihar State Industrial Security Force (BSISF) subsidiary unit in the CISF pattern to provide protection to the commercial and state industry units.
Post additional inspectors, computer assistants additional inspectors and constable computer operators have been made in bsf.
It was also decided to buy 711 ETS machines on RS42.66 crore expenses to print land plot emissions.
These machines will be installed in blocks, subdivisions and districts.
While each of the 534 blocks will have one ETS machine, one machine will be installed in each of the 101 subdivisions, followed by two in each 38 districts.
Seven centers of excellence have been attached to Aryabhatta’s knowledge university.
They include school journalism and mass communication, Patliputra School of Economics, a river study center, geographical study center, astronomical center, center cell and philosophy center.
The cabinet approved 10 solar lights for the electric pole on every Panchayat ward under the Rural Light Rural CM scheme.
Bihar’s renewable energy development agency has been chosen as a nodal body to oversee its implementation.
It also approved the printing of pink papers in Saraswati Press, Calcutta, to be used in EVMS during the upcoming Pancrayat elections.
The proposal to use EVMS for the selection of Mukhiyas and Ward members, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad are also cleaned.
The selection of sarpancha and others related to Gram Kutchehri will be detained through a traditional voting box and paper.
This agreed to the release of the State Government share worth RS99.68 Crore for Cleaning Claims and Costs of Administrative Expenditure Meetings under the Skema Ayushman Bharat Center Center.
Money will be transferred to an escrow account from the Bihar State Health Security Society.
Proposal to increase RS400 Crore by the North Bihar Power distribution company and RS850 Crore by the South Bihar power distribution company from the Bank’s consortium was also approved.
The money will be used as working capital, while the two companies will pay the capital, along with interest arising from its own internal resources.
The proposal to increase the molasses of RS287.50 per quintal since 2014 is also given a nod, because the price of sugar cane and ethanol production for mixing with gasoline has increased.
In addition, the government will release the RS20 Crore from contingency funds to Bihar State Development Corporation to comply with orders provided by Jharkhand High Court.
The limits of technical sanctions that will be provided by senior agricultural engineering officials engaged in soil and water conservation work on its projects have been revised.
Therefore, the assistant director (agriculture engineering) will have the power to provide technical sanctions on the scheme in the range of RS5 to RS10 Lakh.
The Cabinet approved the distribution among the PRI worth of RS741.80 Crore accepted as the first installment of the grant on the recommendation of the 15th Finance Commission.
Bihar Cabinet Approved 5,334 POSS Principal
