Police Academy to come up at Rajgir

The Bihar government on Tuesday decided to transfer 136 acres of land acquired in Rajgir to police department for construction of Bihar Police Academy for imparting training to police official appointed in junior grade, sources said.

In another decision, the state cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar last evening, raised the diesel subsidy to Rs 450 per hectare from Rs 350 per hectare as announced earlier in the wake of drought-like situation.

The cabinet also earmarked Rs 50 crore for seeds subsidy in view of the drought situation.

The government also decided to impose four per cent vat on Makhana and one per cent on Rajma.link