AIIMS-Darbhanga: Bihar Cabinet approves INR 309 Cr for facilitating construction
A total of 11 proposals were approved on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in the Bihar cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The Bihar government has approved INR 309 crore for filling and levelling the pit on the land given for AIIMS Darbhanga. Read here for more details.
Bihar government has approved INR 309 crore for soil filling and land levelling work, which would facilitate the construction of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Darbhanga.
The second AIIMS in Bihar was approved in September 2020 at an estimated cost of INR 1,264 crore.
“An amount of Rs 309.29 crore for the construction of AIIMS on 189.17 acres of land at Darbhanga was sanctioned by the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The fund will be utilised for soil filling and land levelling work,” S Siddharth, Additional Chief Secretary (Cabinet Secretariat), told reporters on Tuesday, as reported by The Print.
He said this is going to be a major step towards facilitating the construction of AIIMS at Darbhanga. The new AIIMS in Darbhanga is expected to be completed within a period of 48 months from the date of the start of the project. Once operational, it will have 750 beds along with various healthcare facilities.
Besides, the Bihar cabinet also approved the proposal to engage 2,832 constables, who have completed their Promotional Training Courses (PTC), for carrying out investigations at different police stations in the state.
Apart from this, the approval for the creation of 15 posts of different categories of Bihar State Protocol Cadre and approval of Bihar Protocol Cadre Rules 2023 has been given. In the meeting, INR 49 crore 72 lakh 78 thousand has been sanctioned for additional administrative building, girls hostel and other works on 5 acres of land transferred free of cost to Bakhtiyarpur Engineering College, Patna under seven determination programme, as reported by Navbharat Times.
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