Cabinet sanctions Rs 180 crore for sugar park project

Patna, Nov 8 (UNI) Bihar government today sanctioned Rs 180 crore sugar park project to be set up in Supaul district.

The state cabinet in a meeting gave its nod to the sugar park project of Bihar Cooperative Sugar park Federation Limited BISCOMAN. The sugar park would be set up in Supaul.

The cabinet also sanctioned implementation of Rs 4934.42 lakh centrally sponsored schemes for modernisation of state police.

The implementation of the scheme would start in the current financial year.

The cabinet gave its nod to hike the sales tax on indigenously prepared liquor and also simplified that tax structure on it. With the new decision the sales tax would be fifty per cent and it would be collected only in single phase instead of three phases.

The cabinet changed the academic sessions of all government primary and middle schools. Instead of January to December, the academic calender would be from April to March.

The cabinet extended the period of Bihar Law Commission for three years and appointed retired justice of Patna High Court Radhamohan Prasad.

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