Bihar’s Town and Country Planning Act and urban schemes being formulated at CEPT, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: according to reports in the Ahmedabad press, a detailed plan for urban development in Bihar is being formulated at the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. Faced with the assignment of preparing town planning schemes for the city of Patna, the experts at CEPT discovered, according to Utpal Sharma, dean, faculty of planning and public policy and arts & humanities at CEPT, that ‘there is no town planning act in Bihar which we could refer to. So we requested... 

Bihar signs agreement for purchase of more electricity Patna: two agreements have been were signed by the Bihar government with the NTPC and Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited (KRIBHCO) respectively, for setting up of thermal power plants in Aurangabad and in Buxar districts. According to reports, together the plants at Nabinagar in Aurangabad and at Chausa in Buxar, are estimated to generate 1320 MW of electricity each. While the Nabinagar plant will be a joint collaboration of BSEB with NTPC, it will be a first time for KRIBHCO – it would make an entry in the power sector with its first...