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Patna,(BiharTimes): The state cabinet on Tuesday last okayed a proposal to increase the retirement age of the Bihar Health Education Service (BHES) cadre medical officers who are teaching in medical colleges to 65 from the current 62. The matter was brought before the cabinet earlier also, but was not given approval.
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According to sources three doctors, who are retiring on January 31 next, would be the first to be benefited by the decision. Besides, Indira Gandhi Institute of Cardiology has been declared as the teaching institute and the doctors there would also retire at 65.
The cabinet also okayed a proposal to set up a new NTPC Khaira police station in Aurangabad district where a power plant is scheduled to come up at Nabinagar in collaboration with the NTPC. Farmers of the place are up in arms demanding higher compensation for their land being acquired for the power plant. Now 42 posts for the proposed NTPC Khaira police station would be created.
The cabinet also sanctioned Rs four lakh for payment of compensation to next of kin of the four persons killed, including a woman, in the Seema Sashastra Bal (SSB) firing in Batraha village under Kursa Kanta police station in Araria district on December 20 last year. These people were killed in police firing in protest against what the villagers alleged sexual harassment of a woman. However, the SSB sources then sasid that the villagers used to give shelter to smugglers.
The cabinet also gave its nod to proposal to annul an earlier urban development and housing department notification envisaging formation of Nagar Parishad in Barauni in Begusarai district.
A sum of Rs 40 crore was sanctioned for the purpose of payment of allowances and special honorarium to the elected representatives of Panchayati Raj institutions belonging to SC/ST/ EBC/women/BPL families.
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