Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 26

Under the Bal Hriday Yojana the state pays for the surgery and the care of children with congenital heart disease, screening them through the school health programme and sending them to recognised hospitals, so that a family does not have to sell land for an operation.

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.

The great Bihar earthquake of 1934 destroyed the rail link across the Kosi between Nirmali and Saraigarh, and the river’s shifting course kept it broken for decades; the Kosi Rail Mahasetu, opened in 2020, restored the connection and cut the journey between Mithila and Kosi by hundreds of kilometres.

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.

Magadh University, set up in 1962, has its campus at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district and affiliates a very large number of colleges across south Bihar, which is why it figures so often in state papers.

The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 and lists 29 subjects, among them agriculture, land improvement, minor irrigation, animal husbandry, rural housing, drinking water, roads, rural electrification, poverty alleviation programmes, primary and secondary schools, markets and fairs and public distribution.

Gaya International Airport serves Bodh Gaya, the place of the Buddha’s enlightenment and the first place of pilgrimage for Buddhists everywhere, and it receives direct flights from Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and other Buddhist countries in the pilgrimage season, which is why it carries international status although it is a…

A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.

The Nalanda University Act was passed by Parliament in 2010, creating a central university at Rajgir in Nalanda district as a revival of the ancient mahavihara, with an international character and schools of Buddhist studies, historical studies, ecology and international relations.

The Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, part of the first of the seven resolves, offers a loan of up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education after the intermediate, the state guaranteeing the loan through the Bihar State Education Finance Corporation so that a student without security can borrow for…

The bridge from Digha on the Patna side to Sonpur on the north bank is named after Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the movement of 1974 and a son of Saran district, and it carries both a railway line and a road, rail traffic having begun over it in 2016.

It is the opening article of Part VI, Chapter V of the Constitution and says that there shall be a High Court for each state.

Kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis, is caused by a parasite carried by the sandfly, which breeds in the damp cracks of mud walls and cattle sheds in the plains of north Bihar, so the control programme sprays the inside walls of houses, offers free diagnosis and treatment at the block level…

The tomb of Sher Shah Suri rises on a stone plinth in the middle of a tank at Sasaram, an octagonal chamber under a single large dome with smaller domed kiosks around it, and it is the high point of Indo-Afghan building in India.

The East to West corridor, numbered 27 after the renumbering of the national highways, runs from Porbandar in Gujarat to Silchar in Assam, and its Bihar stretch passes through Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Purnia, opening up the Mithila and Seemanchal districts.

The Patna Kalam was made by families of painters trained in the Mughal manner who left Delhi and Murshidabad in the eighteenth century and settled at Patna.

The board, with its office at Patna, holds the matriculation and the intermediate examinations of the state and publishes their results, and its papers are the ones that lakhs of students of Bihar sit every year.

Gaya holds the Pitrapaksha Mela in the dark half of Ashwin, when families come from across the country to offer pind daan at the Vishnupad temple and at the appointed spots along the Falgu river.

Although Katihar lies in Bihar, its division is one of the divisions of the Northeast Frontier Railway, the zone with its headquarters at Maligaon in Guwahati, because the lines there carry the traffic running towards north Bengal and the north east.

Sama-Chakeva is the Mithila festival in which girls make clay figures of the birds Sama and Chakeva, sing for the long life of their brothers through the Kartik nights and set the figures afloat or bid them farewell at the end; the songs are among the best known of Maithili…