Bihar in Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA

It was a pleasant surprise to see Bihar as one of the 8 places in the world highlighted amongst the places that are creating better places to live in by cutting carbon pollution. I felt very happy to see the name appear in the Monterey Bay Aquarium and therefore wanted to share this news with all of you.

Bihar has found a mention along with San Francisco (California), San Jose (Costa Rica), New York City (New York), Ann Arbor (Michigan), Chicago (Illinois), Austin (Texas), Bogota (Columbia), Reykjavik (Ireland), London (UK), Samso (Denmark) and Paris (France). 

Infact, if we watch closely, Bihar is the only place shown in this world map from entire Asia Pacific

For those of you who want to see larger versions of these pictures, you will find them at the companion site of the blog "Bihar in the Monterey Bay Aquarium, California"

Election dates in Bihar

The elections in Bihar will start on 21st October and end on 20th November 2010. On 24th November we will all know whether Bihar's growth will leapfrog and get into accelerated mode, creating more job opportunities in Bihar, or will we start moving back to the Hagemonic era of Laluism.

The industrialists who were thinking of investing in Bihar or who committed to investing in Bihar and have not invested in Bihar will watch the developments very closely. This is the time for all the people, whether lower caste or upper caste, whether backward or forward, whether landowners or landworkers, whether Hindus or Christians or Muslims or Buddhists, or any other religion, to have some patience and invest in the future of Bihar even if the good work of the last 4.5 years has not benefitted them, yet.

After all, everyone will be better off if Industries come to Bihar thereby creating job opportunities for Biharis. All the best to Bihar for a better and brighter future.

Details of the election can be found in the Times of India article "Six-phase Bihar elections from 21st Bihar to 20th November"