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The voting on Jharkhand Act was to be done on 21 September 1998 in Bihar legislation. On that day the committee, under the leadership of Justice Shahdeo called for Jharkhand Bandh and organised a protest march. Thousands of supporters of separate state took to streets in leadership of Justice Shahdeo.
Jharkhand (/ ˈ dʒ ɑːr k ə n d /; [8] Hindi: [d͡ʒʱɑːɾkʰəɳɖ]; lit. ' the land of forests ') is a state in eastern India. [9] The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south.
Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 was a law passed by the parliament of India in 2000. Loksabha and Rajya sabha passed the bill on 2 and 11 August respectively and on 15 November 2000, which enabled creation of Jharkhand State out of Bihar. [1][2][3] The law was introduced by the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee to fulfil an election ...
For almost six decades the movement to separate Jharkhand from Bihar had been attempting to gain a foothold. The Jharkhand Party gained political strength but commissions examining the demands for a separate Jharkhand State consistently rejected its demands. Before 1962, the Jharkhand Party held between 23 and 32 seats in the Bihar Legislative ...
Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India, [1] which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Odisha.The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were governed by the then Indian Civil Service of the Bengal Presidency, the largest administrative subdivision in British India.
Chota Nagpur Division became part of the new province of Bihar and Orissa when it was created in 1912. In 1936 the province was split into the separate provinces of Bihar and Orissa , and the princely states were placed under the authority of the Eastern States Agency .
In 1936, Bihar became a separate province including part of Jharkhand. After the independence of India in 1951, Bihar including Jharkhand had 18 divisions, and had 55 districts in 1991. Bihar
Bisheshwar Prasad Keshari was born in Pithoria in Ranchi district in Bihar Province on 1 July 1933 to Shivnarayan Sahu and Lagan Devi in a Kesarwani family. [3] He completed the M.A and PhD from Ranchi University. [4] According to him, when he was in intermediate of Ranchi College, he attained wedding of relatives in Pithoria.