Cabinet clears Rs 1,232 cr for industrial land acquisition
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Additional chief secretary (ACS), cabinet secretariat department, S Siddharth, said 1,300 acres of forest land has already been acquired for the expansion of the IMC at Dobhi. The next chunk of 1,300 acres of private and govt land would be acquired at a cost of Rs 416 crore for transfer to the environment, forest and climate change department for carrying out environmental protection measures on the land.
The cabinet sanctioned remaining Rs 816.72 crore for the acquisition of 2,633.90 acres of land in six districts—Begusarai, Patna, Siwan, Saharsa, Madhepura and Gopalganj—by Infrastructure Development Authority (IDA) for transferring them to Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA).
In Begusarai, 991 acres land would be acquired by investing Rs 351.59 crore and in Patna 500 acres of land in the Bakhtiarpur circle at a cost of Rs 219.34 crore, while for the acquisition of 167.34 acres of land in Siwan Rs 113.92 crore would be pumped. Similarly, 420 acres of land would be acquired in Saharsa district at a cost of Rs 88.01 crore, 548 acres in Madhepura at Rs 41.26 crore, and 6.94 acres in Gopalganj at a cost of Rs 2.60 crore.
The cabinet also approved payment of Rs 2.90 crore to Airports Authority of India (AAI) to carry out OLS survey in connection with the construction of six new airports at Birpur, Munger, Valmikinagar, Muzaffarpur, Saharsa and Bhagalpur.
The cabinet also gave its administrative sanction to the release of Rs 137.17 crore for the acquisition of 18.24 acres of land required for the expansion of the Gaya international airport.
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The cabinet okayed the govt's proposal to pay in one instalment Rs 8,300 each to lawmakers of the state assembly and legislative council to meet expenditures incurred on telephone, cellphone and internet services without producing the bills.
The cabinet approved the payment of incentive money to Maa Prabhavati Textile Mills for establishing its industrial unit in the Guraru industrial area in Gaya district with an investment of Rs 35.14 crore.
The cabinet also gave nod to the govt's proposal to provide 50% rebate on the registration fee, if the vehicle owners deposited certificate of deposit after the scrapping of their Bharat Stage-I and Bharat Stage-II vehicles.
The cabinet sanctioned Rs 258.60 crore to Bihar Agriculture University, Sabour, to meet establishment and development costs during the 2025-26 fiscal. The cabinet approved the proposal to transfer the scholarship sum through the DBT method for students from I to VIII classes during 2025-26 financial year, if they had 75% attendance from April 1 to July 31, 2025.
Similar benefits were also okayed for the students of classes II to VIII for the purchase of their uniforms.
The cabinet sanctioned Rs 219.31 crore to the animal and fishery resources department for the construction of the buildings of 19 district-level resource and training centres, two sub-division level veterinary hospitals and also of the four first class veterinary hospitals.
The cabinet also approved the proposal to set up a digital agriculture directorate as part of the agriculture road map steps. The cabinet also approved the proposal to increase the additional minimum annual wage of booth level officers (BLOs) from Rs 10,000 to Rs 14,000 and of the BLO supervisors from Rs 15,000 to Rs 18,000.
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