Patna (Bihar) [India], August 20 (ANI): The Bihar authorities can pay 10,000 for each one lakh views on YouTube and different social media handles for making content material on Bihar authorities schemes and programmes underneath the amended Bihar Social Media and Online Media Rules, Bihar Cabinet Secretary Mohd Sohail instructed in a press convention.
The further cost will likely be relevant within the Category 1 column after a alternative video completes 30 days of show, with the utmost quantity payable for a single video capped at 1 lakh.
The Information and Public Relations Department has authorised the Online Media Amendment Rules 2026, amending Rules 8(6), 11, 11A and 11B and introducing Rules 14A, 14B and 14C to the Bihar Social Media and Online Media Rules 2024.
Sohail stated the detailed notification, containing provisions for various classes, will likely be obtainable on the division’s web site after its launch.
The choices have been taken at a gathering of the Council of Ministers chaired by the Chief Minister, the place 13 agenda gadgets have been authorised.
Other authorised proposals are from the Water Resources Department and relate to the restoration of assorted canal methods of the Kosi Canal. The work will facilitate irrigation in areas together with Katihar and Narpatganj.
The Cabinet authorised 63 crore 92 lakh 95 thousand underneath the Dairy, Fisheries and Animal Resources Department’s breed enchancment programme to extend milk manufacturing and animal productiveness.
It additionally authorised the liquidation of Bihar Panchayati Raj Finance Corporation Limited, which had develop into non-functional and had no staff. Sohail stated all liabilities of the company had already been cleared.
A significant infrastructure determination was the approval of a 336-km, six-lane, totally access-controlled greenfield expressway between Buxar and Bhagalpur underneath the PPP mode. The expressway will cross by Buxar, Bhojpur, Arwal, Jehanabad, Gaya, Nalanda, Sheikhpura, Munger, Lakhisarai, Nawada, Jamui, Banka, and Bhagalpur.
The mission value has not but been assessed and will likely be decided in the course of the PPP course of. The Bihar Road Construction Corporation has been authorised to make use of massive plots of land surrounding it for financial functions.
The Cabinet additionally granted a 100 per cent exemption from stamp responsibility on land acquired for the Kajra Solar Power mission.
Employment exchanges in Patna, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Saharsa, Gaya, Chhapra, Bhagalpur, and Rohtas will now be uniformly generally known as District Employment Exchanges. Some of those have been earlier designated as Sub-Regional Employment Exchanges.
Under the Chief Minister’s Private Tube Well Scheme, 35,000 tube wells have already been authorised with a finances of 266 crore. For 2026-27, one other 83 crore 60 lakh has been sanctioned for offering non-public tube wells to 11,000 farmers.
In the know-how sector, the Information Technology Department will signal an MOU with the Japanese firm Tayo AI India Private Limited to advertise Artificial Intelligence. The settlement will start with a pilot mission, following which the federal government plans to work on wider use of AI throughout departments.
The Cabinet additionally authorised the formation of Primary Sugar Mill Cooperative Societies within the command areas of cooperative sugar mills, the place sugarcane is equipped to the respective mills, on the traces of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies.
To enhance storage capability, 34 crore 95 lakh 27 thousand 730 has been authorised for 2026-27 so as to add 48,200 metric tonnes of capability by warehouses of 200 MT, 500 MT and 1,000 MT. Societies will obtain 50 per cent as a grant and 50 per cent as revolving capital.
For the fisheries sector, the Cabinet authorised the formation of fishermen cooperative unions on the district stage by combining two to 5 districts or on the divisional stage, together with a state-level Fishermen Cooperative Federation, making a cooperative construction from the district to the state stage. (ANI)