A senior leader of Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday said that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad would be in jail for his involvement in the multi-million rupee fodder scam if the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power at the centre.
"Lalu ka satta sukh ab khatam ho gaya hai, Lalu ko ab jail sukh bhogna hoga (The days of Lalu enjoying power are over, Lalu should now be ready to face the hard reality of jail)," Rajeev Ranjan alias Lalan Singh said at a election rally in Munger from where he is contesting the poll.
Known as a severe critic of Lalu Prasad, Singh said a fresh probe would be ordered into the RJD's chief involvement in the fodder scam if the NDA comes to power. He alleged that the RJD chief had managed to suppress the cases against him in the fodder scam with the help of the Congress.
Singh, a close confidant of chief minister Nitish Kumar, said Lalu Prasad would now be ousted from the centre in the same way he was ousted from Bihar in 2005.link
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Sunday 26 April 2009
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Court seeks start of construction for medical institute in Patna
The Patna High Court Tuesday asked the central government to invite tenders in February for construction of the Jai Prakash Narayan All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Patna and to start construction by June this year.
A bench of the court gave the order after hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare.
The Patna high court had last month sought a progress report on the AIIMS in Patna from the central government.
The then Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat had laid the foundation stone of the prestigious medical institute at Phulwari Sharif in Bihar on Jan 3, 2004 and Rs.300 crore (Rs.three billion) was allotted for the speedy completion of the project
The proposed AIIMS in Patna was part of the central government project envisaging setting up AIIMS-like institutes in Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). However, the project is already delayed.
The project was first proposed in 2003 by the then National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and cleared in 2006 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The new institutions were supposed to come up in three years.
Each institute was to have a 960-bed hospital and provide undergraduate medical education for 100 students per year. Postgraduate and postdoctoral courses are also proposed to be offered.link
A bench of the court gave the order after hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by the Council for Protection of Public Rights and Welfare.
The Patna high court had last month sought a progress report on the AIIMS in Patna from the central government.
The then Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat had laid the foundation stone of the prestigious medical institute at Phulwari Sharif in Bihar on Jan 3, 2004 and Rs.300 crore (Rs.three billion) was allotted for the speedy completion of the project
The proposed AIIMS in Patna was part of the central government project envisaging setting up AIIMS-like institutes in Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). However, the project is already delayed.
The project was first proposed in 2003 by the then National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and cleared in 2006 by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The new institutions were supposed to come up in three years.
Each institute was to have a 960-bed hospital and provide undergraduate medical education for 100 students per year. Postgraduate and postdoctoral courses are also proposed to be offered.link
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