PATNA, Jan. 13 -- The state cabinet on Tuesday gave go-ahead to 43 development initiatives and policy matters, including the long-pending Indrapuri Reservoir Project in Bihar.

The cabinet approved the state water resources department's (WRD) plan of signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Jharkhand following an agreement reached between the two states for sharing of water for irrigation and other purposes.

Additional chief secretary, cabinet, Arvind Kumar Chaudhary, said that the cabinet's decision followed the Central Water Commission's (CWC) approval to the draft agreement over sharing of water of the Indrapuri Reservoir Project, which envisaged that the irrigation facility in farmland of eight districts of Bhojpur, Buxar, Ro...