Nitish, made this announcement, after holding a high-level meeting with the officials of General Administration Department (GAD) on Saturday afternoon.
GAD principal secretary Dipak Kumar told media that the draft of the Bill is almost ready. The Bill is a part of the ongoing exercise to ensure good governance and weed out corruption in making available public-oriented services.
The Bill envisages a stipulated timeframe for delivering important services to citizens. It also stipulates strict censures and punishments to officials who fail to deliver.

Nitish also held a high-level meeting with senior officials of the state agriculture and food departments. It was decided to strengthen the system of procurement and storage of foodgrains for food security schemes.

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A very welcome bill for the ordinary citizens, if and only if it is implemented in letter and spirit. The RSB should include, in no uncertain terms, as to how much time should police require at the most to complete "police verification" for passport applications: 7 days or 7 weeks or 7 months? What should ordinary citizens with "no connections" do when police fails to stick to this time limit? What to do when upon refusal of Rs 500/ per applicant bribe, police verifies that father lives in this village and has good character while mother, who is a housewife in the same house in the same village, has not lived in the village for last 22 years.

I am sure Bihar Government has some existing provision or mechanism or machinery to address the above grievance. My questions is that how many cases has this cell successfully addressed in last six years? More often than not, justice seekers are the one who are penalized on this pretext or that. Ditto is for RTI seekers.

Pradeep