Ratnakar Tripathy Batras  [बतरस] Hands that really built the Bihar runway: for the take off! By Ratnakar Tripathy I The more I look into the recent past of Bihar, the more I am convinced that today’s Bihar was built with the sweat, blood and tears of the Bihari migrant. He/she is the one who sustained Bihar through the decades since the 1970s. The contribution of Bihar middle class has been to mainly funnel all the state money into its own pockets, get its daughters married, educate its sons and build grand houses in Patna and Delhi. This I am afraid is largely the history of families... 

Migrants from Bihar, UP and Jharkhand in Ludhiana to have their own community hall Ludhiana: in what seems to be a first instance, the over 20 lakh migrants from Bihar, UP and Jharkhand will have their own community hall at Tajpur Road in Ludhiana. The foundation stone was laid on Sunday for a community hall. Being set up by head of Purvanchal Vikas Parishad (PVP), migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand will have their own haven in distant Ludhiana. According to V P Singh, president of PVP, it was a long-awaited dream of people from Purvanchal who are settled in the city to have... 

Why are Biharis vital to the Nagaland economy? Dimapur, Nagaland: according to a report in the Nagaland press, that at least 60% of Bihari labourers have left Nagaland in the last few years. The Biharis in Nagaland are mainly from the labouring class. The report mentions that thousands of Biharis are permanently settled in Nagaland while a few hundred thousand more work here. The Bihari community, forming a minority, is seen locally as the backbone of the state’s economy. The report goes on to demonstrate how without the Biharis, Nagaland would not have seen a number of developments –...