Bihar cabinet approves ‘cashless treatment’ for MLAs, government officials, employees and pensioners

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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary. File.

Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary. File. | Photo Credit: ANI

The Samrat Choudhary authorities connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) decided to springiness “cashless treatment” installation close from members of the State legislature to its officials, staff, and household pensioners of the State.

The State furniture chaired by Bihar CM approved Health Department’s connection to springiness “cashless treatment” installation to the members of State legislature and their dependents, some serving and retired officials and their dependents of All India Service, officials and employees of the State authorities and their dependents too retired pension holder State authorities employees and household pensioners, Cabinet Secretariat Department’s Additional Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar Chaudhary said.

Briefing reporters successful Patna Mr. Chaudhary said that the cashless attraction installation for IPD patients volition beryllium fixed nether the Bihar Government Health Scheme. It would marque attraction casual and convenient, helium added.

A cashless attraction installation allows you to person aesculapian attraction astatine empanelled web hospitals without making upfront out-of-pocket payments. The insurer’s security supplier oregon Third-Party Administrator (TPA) settles the covered aesculapian expenses straight with the hospital.

A elaborate line volition beryllium issued aboriginal by the Health Department, which volition marque wide what the precocious ceiling would beryllium for availing the facility, oregon determination volition beryllium nary cap.

A paper volition beryllium issued to the beneficiaries who volition beryllium covered nether the State government’s wellness strategy for cashless treatment. Besides, each the large hospitals of the State and the state volition beryllium integrated with the facility.

The State authorities employees get ₹1,000 monthly aesculapian allowance astatine present, and retired of this, the authorities would deduct 900. As per the existing norm, State authorities officials and employees get reimbursement of their aesculapian expenses up to a definite amount.

The furniture besides approved the framing of “Bihar Ryot Land Purchase Policy 2026”, arsenic per which onshore tin beryllium acquired based connected communal talks/coordination/consent from the ryots for assorted projects of some the cardinal and authorities governments.

Under the “Bihar Ryot Land Purchase Policy 2026”, the terms of the onshore successful municipality areas volition beryllium 2 times the marketplace complaint oregon Minimum Value Register (MVR), whichever is higher, whereas it volition beryllium 4 times the marketplace complaint oregon MVR, whichever is higher, successful agrarian areas, Mr. Chaudhary said.

He added that ryots consenting to merchantability his/her onshore volition get 10% implicit and supra the marketplace complaint oregon MVR of the land. The determination volition facilitate the availability of onshore for industries and different improvement activities, Mr. Chaudhary said, adding that some the cardinal and authorities authorities projects got held up due to the fact that of the unavailability of land. For this, acquisition of onshore becomes indispensable for the projects.

It besides gave its motion to “Bihar Special Survey & Bandobast (Amendment) Rules 2026 (Bihar Vishesh Sarvekshan Evam Bandobast (Sanshodhan) Niyamawali 2026)” to survey Urban Local Body areas of the state.

A full of 24 amendments person been brought successful “Bihar Special Survey & Bandobast (Amendment) Rules 2012” to pave the mode for expeditious and amended survey successful municipality areas, Mr. Chaudhary said, adding that the provisions successful the existing rules person been made to survey rural areas.

It besides gave its motion for the acquisition of 10 caller vehicles for the usage of the Patna precocious tribunal judges, for which ₹3.70 crore has been sanctioned for purchasing EV/Hybrid vehicles.

A full of 27 decisions were taken during the furniture meeting. 

Published - May 28, 2026 08:13 americium IST

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