PATNA: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved 20% extra seats in engineering and polytechnic institutions for admissions in second year of engineering degree and diploma courses through lateral entry in the state.
Principal secretary, cabinet, Ravikant, said that with this decision, 1125 more engineering diploma holders would be admitted to engineering colleges. Besides, this would lead to 1250 additional seats for admission in second year in polytechnics for the students completing the ITI vocational courses.
The cabinet also took a decision to create 5% additional seats for admission to first year engineering degree courses and in polytechnics for economically backwards students whose parents' annual income is less than Rs 4.50 lakh.
It was also decided to open a police station to control cybercrime and create six posts of different level to run this police station, he said.
In another major decision, the cabinet approved appointment of candidates holding diploma (three-year course) in computer science and engineering/computer application/information technology to the posts of assistant programmer, programming assistant, technical assistant, IT assistant, junior network/system engineer and data entry operator in various government departments, the principal secretary said.
The cabinet also gave its nod for starting survey work for social, economic and caste census under a Government of India scheme. A sum of Rs 189.23 crore will be spent for this purpose. The survey will be completed in six months. The survey will, among other things, help identify the people below poverty line.
It was also decided to dismiss the then child development project officer, Tilauthu, Rohtas, Nilima Sinha, on different charges.
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