Bettiah Last Queen Maharani Janaki Kunwar dream

BETTIAH: CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a medical college at Bettiah, the headquarters of West Champaran, thereby fulfilling the dream of the last queen of Bettiah Raj, Maharani Janaki Kunwar. He laid the foundation stone of the first of the four medical colleges promised by his government at the Maharaja Harendra Kishore stadium, Bettiah, amidst great rejoicing. Addressing a jubilant crowd, Nitish said it was his seventh visit to the district, the seventh being when he laid the stone of the medical college. He said the construction work on the badly-needed college would start at the earliest possible, adding a polytechnic institute would also be established here. Nitish said schemes for the construction of toilets have already started under the Lohia Swachchata Abhiyan, adding goverment fund would be not be limited only for people in the BPL list but also for people falling in the APL list adding one crore toilets would be completed within a year. Asking the people to maintain social and communal harmony, Nitish appealed to the people to help create a conducive environment for the development of Bihar adding that the day is not far when Bihar would be the torchbearer for the other states of the country. "For this, cases are being lodged and offenders arrested without discrimination. Speedy trial of cases has injected faith among the people in the present administrative set-up," he said. Health minister Chandra Mohan Rai said the condition of the state's hospitals can be gauged by the fact that patients visiting heath clinics has risen from 39 to 4,500 per month.