2 weeks ago
1
The Bihar Cabinet connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) approved a 2% summation successful Dearness Allowance (DA) for State authorities employees, pensioners and household pensioners getting revised wage oregon pension arsenic per the 7th Pay Commission recommendations.
The DA has been hiked from 58% to 60%, effectual January 01, 2026, Cabinet Secretariat Department Additional Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar Chaudhary told reporters successful a post-Cabinet briefing.
The Cabinet besides hiked a 5% DA for employees, pensioners and household pensioners nether the 6th Pay Commission, revising it from 257% to 262%, Mr. Chaudhary said, adding those nether the 5th Pay Commission volition present get a 9% DA hike, taking the allowance from 474% to 483%.
A full of 19 decisions were taken astatine the Cabinet gathering chaired by Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary.
In yet different important decision, the Cabinet approved the Finance Department’s connection to rise full loans of ₹72,901.31 crore, including ₹64,141.28 crore done marketplace borrowings for improvement and different purposes, Mr. Chaudhary said.
The Cabinet besides gave its motion to transportation 100 acres successful Vaishali territory to the Union Food Processing Industries Ministry for mounting up the National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Mr. Chaudhary said, adding the onshore has been transferred escaped of outgo done the Infrastructure Development Authority (IDA), Patna.
It also approved the Home Department’s connection to make the station of Superintendent of Police (Rural) successful 5 districts—East Champaran, Samastipur, Madhubani, Vaishali, and Siwan—citing their precocious sensitivity to some transgression and communal tension.
New grade colleges
The authorities approved opening 3 caller grade colleges successful West Champaran and Munger arsenic portion of its Saat Nischay-3 (2025-30) programme “Unnat Shiksha-Ujjwal Bhavishya (Advanced Education-Bright Future), Mr. Chaudhary said. Under the programme, a grade assemblage volition beryllium opened successful each artifact of the State. It besides sanctioned the instauration of 132 teaching and non-teaching posts successful each 3 grade colleges.
Additionally, the authorities besides transferred 110.12 acres to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for mounting up a recruitment grooming Centre successful Kishanganj territory of the Seemanchal region.
EV incentives
To beforehand a greenish and modern proscription strategy successful the State, the Cabinet approved the Chief Minister Bihar Environment-Friendly Transport Employment Scheme and the Bihar Electric Vehicle (Amendment) Policy, 2026.
Under the policy, women purchasing electrical four-wheelers volition person a subsidy of up to ₹1 lakh per vehicle, Transport Secretary Raj Kumar said. Women buying electrical two-wheelers volition get an inducement of ₹12,000, helium said, adding the inducement magnitude volition beryllium applicable for the fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27.
Meanwhile, pursuing the proposition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to minimise the usage of vehicles to prevention diesel and petrol, the Bihar CM decided to trim the fig of vehicles successful the Chief Minister’s cavalcade. He has besides appealed to Ministers, Chairpersons and Members of the Corporation Board, each office-bearers, and nationalist representatives to be nationalist programmes without further vehicles.
He besides appealed to the radical of Bihar to usage the metro, bus, auto, oregon different nationalist transport, and each departments of the State authorities person been directed to guarantee arrangements for each types of conferences oregon authorities meetings done video conferencing.
The Chief Minister has besides asked to minimise the usage of thenar lipid successful canteens operating successful authorities offices. He has advised promoting the civilization of enactment from location successful authorities and backstage offices. An entreaty has been made to the radical to organise ‘No Vehicle Day’ erstwhile a week.
