लखीसराय:-विकास की धुंधली तस्वीर में बीत गए 15 साल

लखीसराय। पुराने मुंगेर जिले से पंद्रह वर्ष पूर्व अलग हुए लखीसराय जिले के सोलहवें स्थापना दिवस की तैयारी कर ली गई। शनिवार को जिला मुख्यालय में 16 वां स्थापना दिवस मनाया जाएगा। विगत पंद्रह वर्षो में विकास की बयार बही लेकिन यह जिला मानचित्र के अलावा और कही दिख नहीं रहा है। जहां जिलाधिकारी बैठकर विकास को आयाम देते हैं वह समाहरणालय भवन भी अब तक बनकर तैयार नहीं हो पाया है। जिलाधिकारी के अलावा पुलिस अधीक्षक को अपना आवास भी नसीब नहीं हो पाया है। जिले की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था की जिम्मा जिन पुलिस जवानों के कंधे पर है उसके लिए पुलिस केंद्र को भी भवन नहीं हो पाया है। आधा दर्जन विभागों में स्थायी पदाधिकारी और उनके रहने के लिए सरकारी आवास नहीं है। जिले में जन प्रतिनिधियों एवं अधिकारियों की संवेदनहीनता एवं स्वार्थपूर्ण नीति के कारण अरबों रुपए विकास के नाम पर खर्च हुए लेकिन अनियमितता की शिकायत में कमी नहीं हुई। 03 जुलाई 1994 को तत्कालीन मुख्यमंत्री लालू प्रसाद ने लखीसराय अनुमंडल को जिले का दर्जा प्रदान किया था। तब से अब तक डीएम, एसपी व डीडीसी कलेंडर की तरह बदलते रहे। विकास के नाम पर अनियमित विद्युत आपूर्ति, पेयजल के लिए हाहाकार, ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में बदहाल शिक्षा एवं सड़क विकास का गवाह है। जिला मुख्यालय में डीएफओ कार्यालय, मत्स्य विभाग, राष्ट्रीय बचत, नलकूप विभाग संख्या- 1 आदि विभाग के पदाधिकारियों का पदस्थापन नहीं हो पाया है। वहीं उत्पाद, सहकारिता, खनन, आपूर्ति, परिवहन, कल्याण, सामाजिक सुरक्षा आदि विभागीय कार्यालय वर्तमान में समाहरणालय स्थित पुराने डीआरडीए अनुमंडल एवं एनआईसी भवन में चल रहा है। डीसीएलआर, डीआरडीए निदेशक, डीएसओ आदि पदाधिकारियोंको सरकारी आवास तक उपलब्ध नहीं है। सरकार द्वारा जिले में किशोर न्याय परिषद का गठन किया गया है लेकिन सुधार गृह नहीं है। लखीसराय शहर वर्षो से अतिक्रमण की जाल से निकलने का बाट जोह रहा है। ट्रैफिक व्यवस्था लुंज-पूंज है। अपराधियों के बढ़ते मनोबल एवं नक्सली गतिविधियों ने जिले वासियों की नींद हराम कर दी है। इसके बावजूद प्रशासनिक पदाधिकारी जिले में चौतरफा विकास का दावा कर रहे हैं।

सूत्र :- दैनिक जागरण 

स्थापना दिवस पर कार्यक्रमों की रहेगी धूम

Jul 02, 01:35 am

लखीसराय। आगामी तीन जुलाई को जिला स्थापना दिवस को समारोहपूर्वक मनाने को लेकर गुरुवार को अपर समाहर्ता ने डीएम कार्यालय कक्ष में अधिकारियों के साथ बैठक कर कार्यक्रम की तैयारी को अंतिम रूप दिया। उन्होंने सभी अधिकारियों को स्थापना दिवस समारोह को सफल बनाने के लिये दिये गए टास्क को सफलता पूर्वक पूरा करने का निर्देश दिया। बैठक की जानकारी देते हुए अपर समाहर्ता श्री प्रसाद ने बताया कि तीन जुलाई को जिला का 16 वां स्थापना दिवस समारोह मनाए जाने की तैयारी अंतिम चरण में है। उन्होंने कार्यक्रम की जानकारी देते हुए बताया कि इस मौके पर प्रात: साढ़े छह बजे केआरके उच्च विद्यालय मैदान से समाहरणालय तक एक प्रगति मार्च निकालेगा जिसमें जिले भर के सभी पदाधिकारी, जनप्रतिनिधि आंगबाड़ी सेविका समेत आम लोग शामिल होगे इसके बाद डीआरडीए सभागार में सुबह नौ बजे बाल कार्यक्रम, 11 बजे सेमिनार दो बजे से चार बजे तक गांधी मैदान में ताइक्वांडो एवं फुटबाल मैच का आयोजन किया जायेगा। तथा शाम छह बजे नगर भवन में सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रम आयेाजित होंगे। कार्यक्रम में शामिल सभी सफल प्रतिभागियों को जिला प्रशासन की ओर पुरस्कृत किया जायेगा। बैठक में एडीएम ने सभी कार्यक्रम के प्रभारी को आवश्यक दिशा निर्देश भी दिया। बैठक में वरीय उप समाहर्ता मो. तारिक इकबाल, देवेंद्र कुमार, डीईओ कृष्ण कुमार शर्मा, डीएसई राम सागर सिंह, जिला कल्याण पदाधिकारी गिरीश चंद्र पांडेय, गोपनीय शाखा के सतीश कुमार सिन्हा आदि उपस्थित थेi

सूत्र :- दैनिक जागरण 

Bihar Divas (1912- 2010) 98 Year of History

On 22nd March 2010 Bihar  Celebrated his 98th Anniversary.Bihar Founded in 22nd of March 1912 from the separation of Bangal.its very same for us, we are celebrating 1st time Biahr Foundation Day Officially.

A History, Formation of Bihar  :-  

 The state of Bihar owes a great deal for its birth and development to the newspaper 'The Bihar Times' whose publication started in the year 1894 to give a boost to the demand for the separation of Bihar from Bengal which comprised of the the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and Assam. In this congeries, Bihar was a non-entity as all attention were given to Bengal, Calcutta, being the centre of administration.

After the decisive battle of Buxar, the Emperor, Shah Alam of Delhi throne transferred the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to East India Company whose centre of activities was Calcutta. As such, there was little education in Bihar and the State was socially, educationally and economically backward and exploited.

It was in the year 1889 that Late Sachchida Nand Sinha went to England for doing Bar-at- Law. There, he became a butt of ridicule when he called himself a Bihari, coming from Bihar which had no existence on the map of the country. This humiliating experience provided a spur to Dr Sinha to strive for a niche and separate identity for the state of Bihar. In 1893, having successfully completed his Bar-at-Law, he returned to Patna and took a vow to rest content only after making Bihar-a separate administrative unit. But the struggle for Bihar like all other struggles also brought stiff opposition in its wake as volatile Bengal was not agreeable to separate identity for Bihar.

Nevertheless, the idea for separation of Bihar started taking shape and for spreading it and eliciting public support in its favour, publication of a weekly journal ''Bihar Times'' was started in the year 1894 with the support and cooperation of Nandkishore Lal of Gaya, Rai Bahadur Shreekrishna Sahay and famous journalist, Mahesh Narain who became its editor. In the initial years, this weekly journal exclusively devoted itself to the struggle for separation of Bihar from Bengal and this movement became widespread. After sometime, Dr S N Sinha and Nandkishore Lal submitted a memorandum on behalf of many local institutions to Lt governor Alexander Mackenji for separation of Bihar from Bengal. In 1906, Rajendra Prasad who was secretary of 'Bihari Club' of Calcutta, organised a conference of Bihari students at Patna in consultation with Sachchida Nand Sinha and Mahesh Narain.

In this conference, a student committe was formed to give fillip to the separatist movement and thus it gained great momentum. In 1907, Mahesh Narayan died but the movement got backing of Maulana Mazrul Haque, Ali Imam, Rai Bahadur Brahmdeo Prasad, Hasan Imam. With their help in 1908, the first convention of Bihar State Sammelan was held at Patna in which a resolution was unanimously passed to separate Bihar from Bengal. The same demand was repeated in its second convention at Bhagalpur in 1909. After a few months of this convention, Dr S.N.Sinha and Mazrul Haque were elected members of Imperial Legislative Council from the quota of Bengal Legislative Council and Muslim minority seat. By this time, the separatist movement had got recognition in the eyes of British administration. It was at that time that the then law member S.P.Sinha resigned from his post and Vice-Roy Lord Minto made Consultation with Dr Sinha to fill up the said post. Dr Sinha suggested the name of Ali Imam who was appointed Law member in place of S.P.Sinha. Ali Imam proved very helpful in furthering and giving legal boost to the idea of separation. In 1911, in Delhi Durbar, George V was going to be declared Emperor of India.On this occasion, the Secretary of India affairs wrote a letter to Govt of India in which he emphasised the demand of the Biharees terming them''healthy and law-abiding who were different to Bengalese in their origin, language, propensities, land and thinking.'' It was also communicated that on 12th December, a Lt governor in council separately for Bihar and Orissa would be appointed. This was announced in the Delhi Durbar to everybody's satisfaction amidst great rejoicings. Thus Bihar and Orissa became separate administrative unit under Lt Governor in council from 1st April,1912. In due course, Orissa was also separated from Bihar from 1st April,1936.

' Bihar Times' played its role effectively, true to its purpose, in educating the masses to struggle for creation of Bihar. This journal took up the cause of Bihar and nourished the idea that the separation of Bihar from Bengal would provide the necessary relief to the Bengal administration which will be convenient to Govt of India and in due course 'Bihar Times' influenced other newspapers of neighbouring states also in moulding them towards the idea of creation of Bihar. With the death of Mahesh Narain, it got a big jolt, nevertheless, the paper continued to come out and much later it took the form of 'Motherland' and it still continues to serve the state of Bihar in its new avatar on internet and thus the history of this paper originates from 19th century and traversing its long journey through 20th century, it will now enter the 21st century after a year with a renewed and added zeal to serve the friends of Bihar in India and abroad in the new age of information technology.

Sources:- Writteb By, Dr Suresh Nandan Sinha 

Bihar Next Education Hub of India

In few Upcoming years Bihar will be the next education Hub of India.Every year lacks of Bihari student Migrate to Bihar for his Fulfillment of Education Need. Many of the Bihari student migrated to Maharashatra,Delhi,Karanataka and etc.If we look at our ancient history Bihar provided education to all over world.Looking at the history of Ancient education System in Bihar.

History

In the ancient past Bihar was a major center of learning, teaching and research. There were two world-renowned universities i.e. the Nalanda University and the Vikramshila University. The Nalanda University was famed for providing education in Political Science and Economics, while Vikramshila known for education in Tantra. Unfortunately in medieval period this system of education destroyed by invading armies. Later British ruled the country and the area remain neglected.

It was the later part of British rule in India when Bihar saw some revival in education as the British established a University at Patna and some other institutes for higher education, like Science College, Patna, Prince of Wales Medical College (Now Patna Medical College and Hospital), and Bihar Engineering College (Now National Institute of Technology, Patna). However educational growth in the state did not stepped up further as post independence leaders from Bihar failed in establishing educational institutions in the state.

Present Scenario

There is a huge gap in demand and supply of education in the state. This is the reason the students are migrating from the state for receiving education. There is good percentage of pupils studying in institutes of highereducation in other states like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIIMs), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), etc.

The schooling system in Bihar is same as it was during British rule. State government administers state schools in Bihar. There is system of District Schools also called Zila Schools in the State. State schools are affiliated with Bihar School Examination Board.

Now a days there are also good number of schools affiliated with Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for Indian School Certificate Examination (CICSE). These schools include Convent Schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas, and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. In the post liberalization era the number of private schools, including school-chains and Missionary Schools run by Christian Missionaries as well as Madrasas, or schools run by Muslim clerics has increased. The school-chains and Missionary Schools run by Christian Missionaries are considered as some of the best schools in the state.

 

 

For providing higher education Bihar has many universities and colleges like Patna University, National Institute of Technology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences and many others. Range of courses taught like sciences, engineering, law, medicine, mass communication etc.

The literacy rate in Bihar is low as there is huge gap between demand and supply for school education as well as higher education. The state requires more number of schools and institutes for higher education. The Indian Institute of Technology and Nalanda University will soon be set up. With these institutions coming up it is expected that the literacy rate will be higher than it is at present as they will also attract many other educational institutions to set up their branches in the state.

Literacy Rate of Bihar from 1951 to 2001:-

लखीसराय के 318 गांवों में अब भी टिमटिमा रहे दीये

लखीसराय। राजीव गांधी ग्रामीण विद्युतीकरण योजना (आरजीजीवीवाई) के तहत लखीसराय जिले के हर गांव को बिजली से जगमगाने का सरकार का सपना आधे रास्ते पर ही दम तोड़ता नजर आ रहा है। आजादी के 62 वर्ष बीत जाने के बाद भी जिले में अब तक 318 गांवों में बिजली की रोशनी नहीं पहुंची है। अबतक जिले में कुल 472 गांवों में से मात्र 154 गांवों में ही बिजली है। सरकार द्वारा प्रत्येक गांवों में बिजली पहुंचाना जिले में चुनौती है। वर्ष 2004 से केंद्रीय एजेंसी पावर ग्रिड कारपोरेशन आफ इंडिया इस चुनौती से निपटने का प्रयास कर रही है मगर संवेदकों की लापरवाही एवं विभागीय उदासीनता के कारण जिले में विद्युतीकरण कार्य गति नहीं पकड़ पा रहा है। सरकारी घोषणा के अनुसार वित्तीय वर्ष 2009-10 के अंत तक उन सभी गांवों को बिजली पहुंचाने का लक्ष्य रखा था जहां अभी तक बिजली नहीं पहुंच पायी है। इसमें सिर्फ गरीबी रेखा से नीचे रहने वाले बीपीएल परिवारों के घरों को बिजली कनेक्शन देने की योजना थी। विभाग के ताजे आंकड़े बताते हैं कि वास्तविक स्थिति लक्ष्य से काफी दूर है। विद्युत विभाग कार्यालय से प्राप्त जानकारी के अनुसार जिले में 207 विद्युतीकरण गांव के अलावा 111 बेचिरागी गांव हैं जहां आज तक बिजली नहीं पहुंची। कार्यपालक अभियंता कुमार रामबालक के अनुसार पावर ग्रिड कारपोरेशन आफ इंडिया के द्वारा 175 गांवों के विद्युतीकरण का कार्य 2004 में मिला। वर्तमान में जिले के 150 गांवों में विद्युत पोल गाड़ने एवं तार खीचने का कार्य प्रगति पर है। टाल एवं दियारा योजना के तहत जिले के 28 गांवों का चयन 2002-2003 में चयन कर बिजली पहुंचाने का कार्य शुरू हुआ। जिसमें दियारा क्षेत्र के 13 गांवों तक बिजली पहुंच गयी। टालक्षेत्र के 15 गांवों में कार्य जारी है। कार्यपालक अभियंता श्री रामबालक के अनुसार जिले के रामगढ़ चौक प्रखंड के औरे गांव में 33/11 केवी का विद्युत शक्ति उपकेंद्र कार्य जारी है।
Danik Jagran

Bihar can achieve 20% growth: CM

PATNA: With enough cooperation from the Centre, Bihar can scale greater heights and could even achieve a growth of 20 per cent in GDP, said chief minister Nitish Kumar. According to Nitish this laggard state could soon be a developed state, only if the Centre could contribute to the state's kitty as per the expectation of his government.

"In any case, it's our committment and mission to make Bihar a developed state by 2015 whether we get help from the Centre or not," Nitish said. The chief minister was speaking at a function to felicitate him for being conferred the 'Business Reformer of the Year Award', organised by the business and trade community of Bihar on Monday.

The event was organised by the Bihar Chamber of Commerce (BCC) and representatives of various bodies of the state.

Addressing the BCC members, Nitish warned that attempts could be made to undo all the good work done by his government in the development of the state, which has created a good image of the state within and outside the country.

"A major achievement of my government, which stirred the conscience of the nation, is the CSO findings projecting Bihar's GDP at 11.3%," Nitish said. Nitish spoke about the real estate boom in the state, which according to him was an indicator of the state's growth.

"In any case, the Business Reformer award would be meaningless if no investment comes to Bihar," the chief minister said. He said with elections due he wouldn't like to decieve the people of Bihar who have pinned so much hope on him.

"I am sure no one will like to go back to the dark days of Bihar where one lived under constant terror and was compelled to retire home soon after the sunset," he said. BCC chairman P K Agarwal said that many more business and trade organisations wanted to honour the CM but due to paucity of time representatives of only 20 bodies could attend the function.

A documentary of the award ceremony held in Mumbai on December 20 was shown to the gathering. The organisaitons that felicitated Nitish included Chamber of Commerce & Industries of Bhagalpur, Ara, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Chapra, Begusarai, Jehanabad, Hajipur, Lakhisarai, Madhubani, Danapur, Katihar, Nalanda, Fatuha, Chemist & Druggist Assocaition, Khadyan Vyasayi Sangh, New Market Dukandar Samiti and Hathwa Market Vyasayi Sangh.
Times Of India

Pride and Prejudice

Who carries you on a rickshaw or an autorickshaw in Delhi? Biharis. Who drives the cars of Delhiites? Biharis. Who built the Delhi Metro Biharis. (You may not agree with the last one.)

Who is building the new houses and the expanding suburbs of Delhi? Biharis. Who made Punjab the most prosperous state in the country? The answer again is Biharis. (Here too you may not agree.)

The credit for building the Delhi Metro or making Punjab prosperous will never go to Biharis. Does anyone ever say that blacks built America?

In colonial days, Bihar supplied the girmitiya, or indentured, labourers who built countries like Mauritius, Suriname and Fiji. A bulk of the labour employed in the Raj capital of Calcutta came from Bihar. After Independence Bihari workers flocked to places like Delhi, Punjab and Mumbai.

At the same time, Biharis excelled in other fields. Many became great political leaders, ICS and IAS officers, scientists, doctors, engineers, writers and artists. Delhi and other Indian cities attracted huge white-collar Bihari populations and Biharis formed a large part of the Indian diaspora of professionals.

But in the eyes of the rest of India, “Bihari” had come to mean a labourer, a person doing menial jobs. It had become a term of scorn and contempt. In their anglicized lingo, places like Delhi University turned the word into “Harry”, but the pejorative tone remained unmistakable.

Heaping scorn on the working classes is a universal phenomenon. That is how words like Negro, Paki (used for Pakistanis and Indians in Britain) and some of the words denoting dalit castes in India earned contemptuous connotations.

In fact, while Biharis were getting their hands dirty on Punjab’s farms, Punjabis were migrating in hordes to the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Never mind that they would take up blue-collar jobs as taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants and waiters in those faraway lands.

As the years passed, many of the Biharis who had come to Punjab or Mumbai as manual labourers started moving up the economic ladder as did the blue-collar Indian emigrants abroad. A usually unnoticed aspect of the so-called racial attacks against Indians abroad is the threat the rise of working classes poses to the entrenched social order. This accentuates the contempt they face. From this angle, the attacks on Biharis in Punjab, and Mumbai, and the attacks on Indians abroad are manifestations of the same phenomenon.

What stopped Biharis from bringing about a green revolution or building a Metro in Bihar? The answer is geography and history. Geography, because ravaged by floods, the land of Bihar was unable to feed its growing population. And history, because what was the centre of the biggest Indian empire in ancient times was reduced to an obscure provincial existence. The skewed landownership system introduced by the British rulers worsened the situation.

Things could have improved after Independence had the political leadership of Bihar been able to exert influence on the rulers in New Delhi to get enough funds for development projects and set off a process of industry in the state.
On the contrary, Bihar continued to live the same, conveniently ignored, provincial existence. A system built on casteism, nepotism, corruption and crime came to dominate the state. It spawned a neo-rich class of netas, babus, contractors and government engineers who would build palatial houses for themselves with the money meant for dams, power projects, ration for the poor or even fodder for cattle.

The money meant for roads and public amenities would go into their bank accounts. No wonder, the roads in front of those houses would be full of ditches and become the playground of pigs every monsoon.

With limited options of higher education and hardly any employment opportunities in the state, the youth of Bihar started looking out. They flooded places like Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. They started dominating the country’s toughest competitions like the IIT-JEE and the civil services exam. With this success, Biharis started believing they had the best brains. The world began to grudgingly acknowledge their capabilities.
Academic success, however, did not do much to rid the word “Bihari” of the scorn it had gathered. People in Delhi continued to laugh at those who spoke with a Bihari accent. Those without an accent would get this compliment: “Oh, you are from Bihar? But you don’t sound like a Bihari.”

Biharis, meanwhile, were retreating into a shell, with little but the historic glory of Buddha, Mahavira, Chandragupta, Chanakya, Ashoka, Aryabhatta, Guru Gobind Singh and Sher Shah to bask in. Now comes 11% growth. The state can recover from the damage it has suffered over hundreds of years only if such a high rate of growth can be sustained for many, many years. Then Biharis would not have to till others' land or build cities and countries elsewhere.

The writer is proud to be a Bihari
Vinay Pandey, TNN, 10 January 2010, 12:15am IST
Link:- Special Report On Times of India 10-01-2010