Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday inspected the railway overbridge being built near Bakhtiyarpur Engineering College in Patna district. Officials informed him that the two-lane bridge will be completed in about one and a half months. Kumar said the work should be finished soon as the bridge will make travel easier for students, teachers and local people by connecting NH-30 with SH-106 and linking the college directly to a four-lane road.
The chief minister also visited Bakhtiyarpur Engineering College campus, where new facilities are being built under the government’s Saat Nishchay programme. These include an administrative and academic block, a girls’ hostel, an auditorium, sports ground, furniture and a boundary wall. Kumar said the new buildings will give students more classrooms, better accommodation for girls and spaces for sports and cultural activities.
Later, Kumar inspected construction at Patliputra University in Patna. Work is going on to build an administrative block, academic block, auditorium and indoor games complex at a cost of Rs 219.2 crore. The chief minister asked the officials to complete the project quickly so that the university, which manages colleges across Patna and Nalanda districts, can expand its facilities for students.
Senior officers including principal secretary Deepak Kumar, principal secretary S. Siddharth, secretaries Anupam Kumar and Kumar Ravi, Patna divisional commissioner Chandrashekhar Singh and Patna district magistrate Tyagarajan S.M. were present during the inspections.
