Patna, Aug. 5 -- In an important decision, Bihar cabinet today sanctioned a substantial hike in the honorariums of key support staff working in education, health and rural development departments.
Additional Chief Secretary Cabinet S Siddharth told news persons here that the cabinet decided to double the honorarium for cooks preparing Mid Day Meals in the schools across the state. With this decision now 2,18,622 cooks would get honorarium from Rs 1650 to Rs 3300. A total of Rs 252.84 crore will be spent in the remaining seven months of the current fiscal, he added.
Similarly, the honorarium of 6,000 night watchmen working in secondary and higher secondary schools has been doubled from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. Besides, honorarium of 2350 phy...