Bihar cabinet OKs Rs 62 crore for purchase of 250 ambulances

PATNA: Amid Covid pandemic, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved the government’s proposal to allot Rs 62.50 crore to the health department for the purchase of 250 ambulances.
The government has decided to purchase 250 ambulances to strengthen the transport facility for the patients so that they could be taken to various required medical institutes.
The cabinet also approved the government’s proposal to give one-year extension up to 2021-22 to the payment of incentive money worth one month’s salary/honorarium to doctors, health workers and other staff of the health department.
Overall, the cabinet gave its approval to six proposals of the government. It approved the proposal to allow the unencumbered movement of trucks with 12 and more wheels to transport goods from Pakur to Bagdogra in West Bengal via Kishanganj for the construction of the runway at the Bagdogra Air Force station.
The cabinet gave its sanction to the framing of penalties and punishment to the manufacturers, sellers, purchasers, exporters, importers and users of the banned single-utility plastic products. The rules in this regard will be framed by the environment, forests and climate change department.
The cabinet also approved the proposal to give one-year extension to the Mukhyamantri rural drinking water or ‘Nischaya’ scheme up to 2021-22 and also framing the mechanism for the maintenance of the tap drinking water supply system. The approved one-year extension to 42 assistant engineers in the building construction department who were employed on contract basis.