Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 25

It was set up on 1 October 1917 as an examining and affiliating university for the province of Bihar and Odisha, and it is the oldest university in the state as well as one of the oldest in the country.

Article 243A, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, says that a Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village level as the legislature of a state may by law provide, so the body is constitutional but its powers are decided by state law.

The East Central Railway, created in 2002 when the railways were reorganised into new zones, has its headquarters at Hajipur in Vaishali district, and it is the only zonal headquarters of the Indian Railways in Bihar.

Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.

In the Census of 2011 Rohtas, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Shahabad region, recorded the highest literacy rate among the districts of Bihar, ahead of Patna and Munger, which came next.

Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal is the resolve to take piped drinking water to every household, carried out by the Public Health Engineering Department in the towns and larger habitations and through the panchayats in the villages, and it had a special importance in Bihar because of arsenic, fluoride and…

The bridge between Mokama and Simaria, opened in 1959 and inaugurated by Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, carried both a railway line and a road and was the first bridge of that kind over the Ganga anywhere in the country.

Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on that date under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court became the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi.

The Census of 2011 recorded Bihar’s literacy rate as 61.8 per cent, the lowest among the states of India, with 71.2 per cent for men and 51.5 per cent for women.

Bismillah Khan was born there on 21 March 1916, moved to Varanasi as a boy and turned the shehnai, until then an instrument of ceremonies, into a concert instrument.

The Mahatma Gandhi Setu, about 5.75 kilometres long and opened in 1982, runs from Patna to Hajipur in Vaishali district, the town that also holds the headquarters of the East Central Railway, and it is the main road link between the capital and north Bihar.

He headed the government of Bihar from 1946, continued as Chief Minister after the Constitution came into force, and remained in office until his death in 1961, which makes his one of the longest unbroken tenures in the early history of any state.

The Indian Institute of Management of the state works at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, the town of the Mahabodhi temple, and it was among the institutes opened in the second round of expansion of the IIM system.

Bakasht was land that zamindars had taken into their own cultivation after evicting occupancy tenants during the depression, and the Kisan Sabha fought to get it restored to the tenants.

Vikramshila Setu, about four and a half kilometres long and opened in 2001, joins Bhagalpur on the south bank with Naugachhia on the north, and it takes its name from the ancient university of Vikramshila, whose ruins stand in the same district at Antichak.

Birsa Munda led the Ulgulan, the great tumult, among the Munda people of the Chhotanagpur region at the end of the nineteenth century, demanding the restoration of tribal land rights, and he died in Ranchi jail in 1900.

The institution opened in 1925 under that name and was renamed Patna Medical College after independence; its hospital is still among the largest in eastern India and the oldest teaching hospital of the state.

National Waterway 1 follows the Ganga, the Bhagirathi and the Hooghly from Haldia in West Bengal up to Prayagraj, and a long stretch of it passes through Bihar by Buxar, Patna, Munger and Bhagalpur.

The institute at Agamkuan in Patna works under the Indian Council of Medical Research and is the national centre for research on kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, the disease whose heaviest Indian burden lies in the plains of north Bihar.

The Ganga waterway from Haldia to Prayagraj, declared in 1986 as the first national waterway of the country, is 1,620 kilometres long, and under the Jal Marg Vikas Project its channel was deepened and terminals were built, including the multimodal terminal at Patna.