Bihar cabinet today decided to set up an engineerig college at Begusarai and an agriculture university at Purnia with an investment of Rs 139.72 crore.

Cabinet and co-ordination secretary, Afzal Amanullah told reporters after the meeting that a sum of Rs 62.22 crore was sanctioned for establishing an engineering college at Begusarai. The institution would be named after poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar who hailed from the area.

He said that the government also decided to establish an agriculture university at Purnia at a cost of Rs 77.50 crore.

The agriculture university would be named after Bhola Paswan Shashtri, a three time former Bihar chief minister.

The cabinet also sanctioned a sum of Rs 8.15 crore for constructing the building and hostel premises for constructing the building to house the students of civil engineering and information techonolgy (IT) at Birla Institute of Technology of Bihar chapter.

The cabinet also decided to constitute a three member cabinet sub-committee headed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi to revive the Bihar state Khadi Gramodygya Board, Amanullah said.