Bihar became Self-Sufficient in Fish Production for the First Time, with Production of 8.46 lakh tonnes | Bihar | 03 May 2023

According to the information received from the media on 2 May 2023, the total fish production in Bihar in the year 2022-23 is 8 lakh 46 thousand tonnes. This is 85 thousand tonnes more than 7.61 lakh tonnes in 2021-22.

It is worth mentioning that 8.02 lakh tonnes of fish are required annually in Bihar.
Bihar Animal and Fisheries Resources Department has prepared the data on fish production, under which Madhubani has the highest production of 88.96 thousand tonnes, while Jehanabad has the lowest production of 1.55 thousand tonnes.
For the first time, Bihar has produced fish in excess. To meet the requirement for fish in the state, about 800 crore fish had to be imported from Andhra Pradesh and other states till now.
Now due to more production, fish traders will also be able to send more fish to other states.
It is worth mentioning that fish is also exported from Bihar to the neighboring states of West Bengal and Nepal.

MoU Signed between IIT Patna and C-DAC | Bihar | 03 May 2023

On 02 May 2023, an MoU was signed between IIT Patna and C-DAC to set up a supercomputer at IIT Patna by September 2023.

The MoU was signed by Prof. T. N. Singh, Director, IIT Patna and E. Magesh, Director General (DG), C-DAC.
IITs will be equipped with supercomputer power by September this year under the National Supercomputing Mission. The cost of setting up this supercomputer will be Rs 20 crore.
This supercomputer can compute data with 833 tera flops or one trillion floating point operations.
It is worth mentioning that IIT Patna has been selected by the Union Ministry of Science & Technology among the 9 institutes of the country.
This supercomputer will prove to be a milestone and will enhance the high level of data computation for various purposes.
Through this, it will help in forecasting the weather, as well as be able to issue alerts on the possibility of floods from agriculture.
The youth working in the field of entrepreneurship will get a lot of benefits from this.
With the advent of supercomputers, work will be done in various fields including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Security, Quantum Simulation, Process Simulation and Optimization, Computational Phyo Dynamics, Weather Modeling, Disaster Recovery, Drug Discovery, Molecular Dynamics, Machine Learning.
Significantly, its infrastructure is based on Rudra Servers, which are designed, manufactured and assembled indigenously in India. This is a step towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat Mission.

On 02 May 2023 Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (IGIMS) Institute and the development organization Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Patna, Bihar signed an MoU under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.

The MoU was signed in the presence of Dr Vinay Kumar, Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Aditya Kumar Sinha, Director, C-DAC Patna and E Mangesh, Director General, C-DAC.
With this MoU, doctors will now treat patients better by using machines and software at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (IGIMS) in Patna. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will now be used here for better treatment.
Now both institutes together will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the treatment and development of medicines for many deadly diseases including cancer and to treat patients.
The use of artificial intelligence will help a lot in the health sector in preparing medical databases, maintenance of equipment, reducing staff shortages and increasing laboratory facilities and early detection and diagnosis of diseases etc. This will prove to be very beneficial for both the patient and the institution.
It is worth mentioning that artificial intelligence is a technical system in which the ability of computers to think, understand, act and respond like humans is developed through software. It can think, understand and learn artificially.