The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday (September 2, 2025) gave its nod to open government medical colleges in seven districts of the State.
Giving its nod to health department’s proposal, the Cabinet decided to open one medical college and hospital in seven districts of Kishanganj, Katihar, Rohtas, Sheohar, Lakhisarai, Arwal and Sheikhpura, Cabinet Secretariat Department’s Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Arvind Kumar Chaudhary told reporters in a post Cabinet briefing.
There are, currently, 12 State-run government medical colleges and hospitals apart from 20 under construction medical colleges in the State.
In another decision, the Cabinet also sanctioned ₹20,000 crore to roll out Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana, under which one woman of every family will be given ₹10,000 to start a business of her own choice, Mr. Chaudhary said.
Following the evaluation of the performance of women’s entrepreneurial ventures after six months, an additional ₹2 lakh will be given as grant to the women entrepreneurs, he said adding that the amount of ₹20,000 crore will be made available as advance from Bihar Contingency Fund and Finance Department as per requirement.
Along with it, the Cabinet also gave its nod for creation of various posts of 3,233 in different government departments, Mr. Chaudhary said.
Out of 3,233 different posts, it approved the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) department’s proposal for creation of 1,800 teaching and non-teaching posts for newly approved 40 residential schools.
Following the implementation of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 760 posts have been created besides approving the redesignation of various posts in order to strengthen the prosecution cadre, he said.
A separate unit of “Prohibition and State Narcotics Control Bureau” has been set up for which 88 posts have been created to deal with the issue of narcotics and prohibition. So far, the Economic Offence Unit (EOU) has been tackling the cases of narcotics and drugs while CID has been dealing with the cases of prohibition.
A total of 237 posts in 38 government engineering colleges, 177 posts (six principals and 171 lecturers) in 46 government polytechnic/government women’s polytechnic, 47 posts in soil conservation directorate (agriculture department), 25 posts in Art, Culture and Youth Department have been created.
The Cabinet also increased the basic salary by 30% per month as “risk allowance” for the police officials and personnel who are either working or working on deputation in Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). The amount will not exceed ₹25,000 per month on which dearness allowance will not be payable, Mr. Chaudhary said.
Bihar Home Guards’ duty and training allowances have been hiked from ₹774 to ₹1121 for each working day which is on par with a one-day salary of Bihar police personnel and it will be effective from the date of issuance of the order.
It also decided to increase the monthly honorarium of Gram Kutchery Secretary from ₹6,000 to ₹9,000. The hike will be made applicable from July 01, 2025.
The Cabinet also hiked the stipend of students doing internship in different medical colleges, Patna dental college, Ayurvedic, Unani, Homoeopathy colleges and foreign medical sciences. They will now get ₹27,000 per month as stipend against the existing monthly stipend of ₹20,000.
While those doing internship in physiotherapy and occupational therapy will get the hiked monthly stipend of ₹20,000 against ₹15,000 per month.
The monthly honorarium of Technical Assistant has been hiked from ₹27,000 to ₹40,000 per month while Accountant-cum-IT Assistant’s monthly honorarium has been increased to ₹30,000 from ₹20,000.
The Cabinet gave its nod to hand over the under construction International Cricket Stadium at Rajgir to BCCI affiliated Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) for its maintenance and operations. It is a step in direction towards holding international cricket matches at Rajgir.
It also temporarily hiked the Bihar Contingency Fund (BCF) corpus upto ₹12,675.80 crore till March 30, 2026, for timely implementation of various important schemes launched by the State government.
A total of 48 decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Published – September 02, 2025 11:41 pm IST
