House of a another corrupt official turned into school: In Kadamkuan, Patna   Patna: according to reports, a second ‘corrupt’ home has now been converted into a school for children in Patna. The home built by the suspended treasury clerk Girish Kumar at a prime location in Kadamkuan yesterday became a residential government school. The highly valued property is a two-storeyed house with an area of 4.75 decimals and with 12 rooms. Yesterday at 1 PM, students, teachers and officials from the district welfare board reached Kadamkuan and opened the gates of the school and a new beginning... 

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Nitish’s response to land scam accusation: seeking Hazare’s help for effective Lokayukta   Patna: even as Nitish Kumar, the Bihar CM faces charges of ‘land scam’ in the assembly, he expressed a resolve to fight corruption in the state and will consult Anna Hazare’s to make the state Lokayukta “further broad-based and effective.” “We have realised the need for strengthening Lokayukta… We will take help of Anna Hazare in our determined bid to make Lokayukta further broad-based and effective in Bihar,” Kumar told reporters at his state Assembly... 

The NGO Muskan: the ugly tales behind the smile and the tall promises! Patna: The Bihar government refused to give in to the demand of  the opposition leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui for either a CBI or vigilance probe into siphoning of approximately Rs 150 crore from the public by Mainpura, Patna based organization ‘Muskan’. According to Siddiqui, Pratap — who added a ‘Dr’ to his name — floated his NGO and took money from around 4,000 youths in the name of running Kisan Haat, Kisan Gaushala, Sramodaya Vidyalaya, a dairy besides other initiatives under Muskan and offered them jobs... 

Declaration of assets: some doubts and their answers Patna: among all the grouches and protests against the new practice of asset declaration by the Bihar government, only two have emerged as the most non-trivial. First, the fear that criminals with armed with information on the assets of an individual official may target her or him for levies, kidnapping etc. Prima facie, this fear seems quite legitimate, especially for the middle and lower level officials who often travel in the interior or have their postings in far flung areas where the police cannot reach promptly enough. This also seems... 

Assets of five lakh government employees in public view by March 12 Patna: latest news reports indicate that the information on the assets of around five lakh state government employees will be available on the Bihar government website by March 12. It is even likely that in case of delays, if details of all the employees are not uploaded by March 12, the details of the remaining employees will be uploaded in the next phase. The centres involved in putting the data base together are – the offices of district magistrates (DMs), departmental heads and corporations. The workload at department...