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Government of Bihar, the Glossary

Bihar Government is the state government of the Indian state of Bihar and its nine divisions which consist of districts.^[1]

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Administration in Bihar

Bihar is a state situated in Eastern India.

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Administrative divisions of Bihar

Structurally Bihar is divided into divisions (Pramandal - प्रमंडल)), districts (Zila), sub-divisions (Anumandal) & circles (Anchal). The state is divided into 9 divisions, 38 districts, 101 subdivisions and 534 circles. 12 municipal corporations, 49 Nagar Parishads and 80 Nagar Panchayats for administrative purposes.

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All India Forward Bloc

The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Anugrah Narayan Sinha (18 June 1887 – 5 July 1957), known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist statesman, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one of the architects of modern Bihar, who was the first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–1957).

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress.

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Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Singh (Title: Sinha) of Shahabad (now Bhojpur), Bengal Presidency (1 February 1899 – 12 November 1986) was the 6th Chief Justice of India (1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964).

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Bicameralism

Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Bihar Legislative Assembly

The Bihar Legislative Assembly also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha is the lower house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India.

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Bihar Legislative Council

Bihar Legislative Council also known as Bihar Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India.

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Cabinet (government)

A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch.

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Cabinet collective responsibility

Cabinet collective responsibility, also known as collective ministerial responsibility, is a constitutional convention in parliamentary systems and a cornerstone of the Westminster system system of government, that members of the cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, (20 June 1858 – 2 August 1944) was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1910 to 1916.

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Chief Justice of India

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Chief minister

A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity.

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Chief minister (India)

In India, a chief minister is the elected head of government of each state out of the 28 states and sometimes a union territory (UT).

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Civil law (common law)

Civil law is a major "branch of the law", for example in common law legal systems such as those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it stands in contrast to criminal law.

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Code of Criminal Procedure (India)

The Code of Criminal Procedure, commonly called Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), was the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India. It was enacted in 1973 and came into force on 1 April 1974. It provides the machinery for the investigation of crime, apprehension of suspected criminals, collection of evidence, determination of guilt or innocence of the accused person and the determination of punishment of the guilty.

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Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India.

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Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India.

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Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Devesh Chandra Thakur

Devesh Chandra Thakur (born 3 July 1953) is an Indian politician from the Janata Dal United, and a Member of Parliament representing Sitamarhi(Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar, India.

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District court

District courts are a category of courts which exists in several nations, some call them "small case court" usually as the lowest level of the hierarchy.

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Durga Das Basu

Durga Das Basu (1910–1997) was an Indian jurist and lawyer.

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Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier

Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier KCSI, KCIE (4 June 1866 – 17 November 1945) was a British Indian judge and the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.

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Federalism

Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

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Federalism in India

The Constitution of India establishes the structure of the Indian government, including the relationship between the federal government and state governments.

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First-past-the-post voting

First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Government of India Act 1915

The Government of India Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 61) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which consolidated prior Acts of Parliament concerning British India into a single act.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Governor (India)

In India, a governor is the constitutional head of a state of India that has similar powers and functions at the state level as those of the president of India at the central level.

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Head of government

In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

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High courts of India

The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India.

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Hindustani Awam Morcha

Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (English: Indian People's Front), abbreviated HAM(S), is an Indian political party with a presence in Bihar.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Congress

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Information and Public Relations Department, Bihar

The Information and Public Relations Department, Bihar commonly referred as IPRD Bihar is an agency within the Government of Bihar.

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Judiciary of India

The judiciary of India (ISO: Bhārata kī Nyāyapālikā) is the system of courts that interpret and apply the law in the Republic of India.

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K. Vinod Chandran

Krishnan Vinod Chandran is an Indian Judge.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Lalit Mohan Sharma

Lalit Mohan Sharma (12 February 1928 – 3 November 2008) was the 24th Chief Justice of India.

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Leader of the Opposition

The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government.

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Legislative council

A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.

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List of chief ministers of Bihar

The chief minister of Bihar is the chief executive of the Indian state of Bihar.

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List of current Indian chief justices

This is a list of current chief justices of the Supreme Court and high courts of India, the highest court in every state of the Republic of India.

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List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar

The deputy chief minister of Bihar is the seniormost cabinet member of the state government who serves as the de facto second head of the state.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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List of districts of Bihar

Bihar, a state of India, currently has 38 administrative districts, 101 subdivisions (अनुमंडल) and 535 CD blocks.

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List of governors of Bihar

The governor of Bihar is a nominal head and representative of the president of India in the state of Bihar.

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List of state and union territory capitals in India

India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories.

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Local government in India

Local government in India is governmental jurisdiction below the level of the state.

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Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)

The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJP (RV)) is an Indian political party formed in 2021 under the leadership of Chirag Paswan. Election Commission of India froze the symbol of erstwhile main Lok Janshakti Party and allotted new name and symbol to both factions. It is now one of two separate factions - the other being the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Maharashtra Legislative Council

The Maharashtra Legislative Council or Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.

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Municipal governance in India

In India, the Urban Local Bodies (UBL), also called municipalities, are self-government institutions responsible for the administration of cities, towns, and transitional areas within a state or Union Territory.

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Nand Kishore Yadav

Nand Kishore Yadav (born 26 August 1953) is an Indian politician, who currently serves as the Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He was former cabinet minister for road construction and health in the Government of Bihar.

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Narendra Narayan Yadav

Narendra Narayan Yadav is an Indian politician who currently serves as Deputy Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly.

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National Democratic Alliance

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA; ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Lokatāṁtrika Gaṭhabaṁdhana) is a right-wing Indian political alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has been serving as the 22nd chief minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previously held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000.

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Original jurisdiction

In common law legal systems, original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction, when a higher court has the power to review a lower court's decision.

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Patna

Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Bihar

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