Bihar

Bihar’s immunisation cold chain network runs on 1,946 working cold chain equipment installed across 654 vaccine stores and cold chain points. But it is the women and men who handle and deliver the vaccines who have contributed to the vaccination in the state.

Her NGO, Nari Gunjan is active in five districts of Bihar and works through 850 Self-Help Groups, which run anganwadis, school dropout and adult education programmes.

Such has been the success of this innovative project that the Centre is replicating it across 5,000 village schools in India!

Bihar is all set to benefit, as drinking water will have a drop in prices-to just 50 paise per litre!

Musaharu Ram is an example for those who wait for government intervention.

With the approaching rains spelling hardship yet again for pregnant women, 130 village homemakers rolled up their sleeves and took up the task of building the 2 km lifeline!

Thalassemia is blood disorder characterised by abnormal haemoglobin production, which requires the patient to undergo blood transfusion every three-to-four weeks.

These girls are simultaneously juggling cultivation and education, in Patna.

Farmers in an Aurangabad village prone to drought and Maoist insurgency have defied scientific opinion, and cultivated strawberries successfully, boosting the local economy. Mohd Imran Khan takes a closer look.

A quiet little village named Patna in Scotland recently celebrated Bihar Diwas to celebrate its historic links with the Bihar capital.