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Buta orders suspension of doctors

Governor visits flood-hit areas; orders deployment of private doctors in health centres

MUZAFFARPUR: Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Thursday ordered immediate suspension of absentee doctors in flood-hit areas of Muzaffarpur district and asked the District Magistrate to depute private medicos in health centres going without a doctor.

The Governor, who visited some villages in the flood-ravaged Aurai block of the district on Wednesday, told reporters that two doctors found absent have been placed under suspension.

Mr. Singh instructed District Magistrate S K Mishra to launch relief operations in the affected areas on a war footing and announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 50,000 to the next of kin of each of those killed in Wednesday's boat mishap in adjoining Sitamarhi district. Five persons were reported killed when a boat capsized in Bagmati river in Sitamarhi district.

The Governor also sanctioned Rs 15 crores for rural roads in naxalite affected Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi and Sheohar districts and asked the Road Construction department Secretary, Shishir Sinha, to complete repair of national highways linking Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, Gaya and Purnia within a month.

Replying to a question about frequent conflicts between farmers of India and Nepal at Susta in West Champaran district where the border between the two countries were not demarcated, the Governor asked the authorities to put up pillars clearly defining the frontier. -- PTI

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