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Bihar Times
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CARE winds up operations in Bihar
One of the largest International relief and development agencies, CARE (India), has wound up its operations in Bihar and shifted to Jharkhand. The decision was taken following a Union government directive to the organisation to execute its projects in 152 blocks of Jharkhand.
Though the decision was officially communicated to the state social welfare department (SWD), there was not a whimper of protest from Bihar to the Union government.
Apart from jeopardising the Anganbari scheme, which primarily aims at promoting literacy in 40 blocks of Bihar under the Integrated Child Development Project, the state is likely to lose huge quantities of relief materials it has been getting from CARE ever since 1967 for distribution among flood victims. Last year, flood relief materials worth about Rs 10 crore were given by CARE. CARE's silent withdrawal has been allowed when the problem of annual floods is to crop up any time with the advent of rainy season.
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Bihar Police to form special team to tackle Naxal menace
The State police headquarters has decided to form Special Operation Groups (SOG) to combat outlawed outfits like the Peoples War Group (PWG) and MCC.
The SOG would be a composite group comprising 60 to 70 men drawn from the local district police, Bihar military police, paramilitary police and the special task force (Cheetah). Efforts are on to include some personnel from the State intelligence agency too.
The main thrust behind constituting these groups similar to those operational in Jammu and Kashmir, is to remove the barriers of jurisdiction.
To begin with, four teams of SOG are being set up in Masaurhi and Paliganj areas of Patna rural, which have contiguous borders with Arwal and Jehanabad police districts. This region is considered to be a den of PWG extremists.
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Planning Commission asks States to give details of schemes
The consultative process for the drawing-up of the Tenth Five- Year Plan (2002-07) is underway. The Planning Commission is likely to insist that States dovetail their evaluation of all schemes into their respective plan documents. This is to ensure greater transparency and accountability' in the planning stage itself.
To know the viability of the ongoing schemes and the efficiency with which they had been implemented, the Planning Commission was also thinking of making the evaluation exercise at the State- level parallel to the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) audit.
Such data would help the planners decide whether a particular scheme should be continued in the next Plan or not.
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Animal relief centres for flood-prone areas
The Animal Husbandry Department (AHD) has initiated steps to set up animal relief centres in flood-prone districts of Bihar.
Keeping in mind the diseases affecting the animals during the flood, regional directors (RDs) and district animal husbandry officers (DAHOs) have been advised to vaccinate them before the flood.
The RDs and DAHOs have also been asked to make arrangements for the supply of fodder, feed, veterinary medicines and vaccines at all the animal relief centres falling under their jurisdiction.
The divisional commissioners and district magistrates have been asked to prepare a contingency plan for purchase of fodder and feed from outside in special circumstances and send the same to the AHD for necessary action. The AH directorate would then make arrangements for the allotment of railway wagons to the concerned districts to bring fodder and feed from outside.
The DAHOs and sub-divisional animal husbandry officers (SAHOs) would make joint inspection of relief centres. The DAHOs would send weekly reports to both the concerned DM and the RD. The RDs will also inspect the relief centres falling under their jurisdiction and send their report to the AH directorate every Friday.
A control room would be set up at the animal husbandry directorate. It would start functioning from June 15 for proper monitoring of relief work as well as receiving information from the districts.
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WHO unhappy over paucity of immunisation officers
The International polio surveillance review team of World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed its strong disapproval at the failure of the state government to fill up the vacant posts of district immunisation officers (DIOs) in majority of the 37 districts of the state.
The WHO team, which recently visted 12 districts of the state, Patna, Bhojpur, Begusarai, Nalanda, East Champaran, West Champaran, Gaya, Aurangabad, Rohtas, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani and Jehanabad, has informed the medical education and family welfare minister, Dr Shakeel Ahmad, that even in the districts where DIOs were posted ,they were not mobile. With a view to increasing the mobility of DIOs, the WHO has offered to supply vehicles provided the state government sends the relevant documents to Delhi after condemning the old vehicles.
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