Bihar Current Affairs 28 August 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Bihar Current Affairs notes for 28 August 2026, prepared for BPSC and other State PCS aspirants. The state government conceded a single-phase TRE-4 examination and announced a judge-led committee on examination reform after the Gardani Bagh agitation, discharge on the Gandak fell back after the Nepal flood surge with nine NDRF teams deployed, and the Chief Minister opened a Rs 249 crore flyover in Patna. Each item below carries a Prelims fact set and a Mains angle, followed by five practice MCQs.

1. TRE-4 to Be Held in a Single Phase; Judge-Led Committee on Examination Reform

Why in News: After days of protest by teaching aspirants at Gardani Bagh, Patna, CM Samrat Choudhary met a delegation on 27 August 2026 and announced that the Teacher Recruitment Examination-4 (TRE-4) will be conducted in a single phase rather than the planned two stages.

What happened: TRE-4 is conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) for 32,388 teaching posts across primary, middle and senior secondary levels. The agitation had ended in a lathi-charge and the use of water cannon near the Chief Minister’s residence. Alongside the single-phase concession, the government announced a Special Expert Committee on Examination Reforms chaired by a sitting judge of the Patna High Court, which will hear aspirants’ grievances and examine mandatory disclosure of question papers, OMR sheets and answer sheets in BPSC-pattern recruitment examinations. Two grievance mechanisms were launched, a Vidyarthi Sahayata Portal and Vidyarthi Sahayata Shivir, for time-bound redressal.

The protesters had raised four demands: single-phase examinations, transparent recruitment, removal of negative marking, and 100 per cent domicile-based hiring. The first two were substantially conceded; the last two were not.

Bihar Relevance:

• Prelims: TRE-4, conducted by BPSC, covers 32,388 teaching posts. The single-phase decision was announced on 27 August 2026.
• Prelims: The Special Expert Committee on Examination Reforms is to be chaired by a sitting judge of the Patna High Court. New mechanisms: Vidyarthi Sahayata Portal and Vidyarthi Sahayata Shivir.
• Prelims: BPSC is a State Public Service Commission constituted under Article 315 of the Constitution. Members are appointed by the Governor under Article 316, and can be removed only by the President under Article 317, which is the structural guarantee of its independence. Its annual report goes to the Governor under Article 323(2).
• Prelims: The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 is the central law against organised paper leaks. Bihar has its own Bihar Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.
• Mains: Executive responsiveness to youth agitation, and whether routing examination governance through a sitting-judge committee strengthens transparency or substitutes for institutional reform of the recruitment agency itself (GS2 governance, statutory and constitutional bodies).

2. Gandak Discharge Recedes; Nine NDRF Teams Deployed

Why in News: Discharge on the Gandak at the Valmiki Nagar barrage fell back on 27 and 28 August 2026 after the surge caused by the flash flood in Nepal’s upper Gandaki catchment, and the National Disaster Response Force deployed nine teams across Bihar.

What happened: In a statement, the Water Resources Department said discharge peaked at about 1.50 lakh cusecs at 11 p.m. on Wednesday 26 August and had fallen to about 1.04 lakh cusecs by Thursday morning. All 36 gates of the barrage had been opened at the height of the surge.

The department placed the surge in seasonal context, which is the part worth memorising. For historical comparison, this year’s highest discharge at the barrage was 2.24 lakh cusecs on 14 July 2026, and the recent record was 5.625 lakh cusecs on 28 September 2024. The August surge was therefore serious but well short of either.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to CM Samrat Choudhary on 26 August, assuring central assistance. NDRF Inspector General Narendra Bundela confirmed nine NDRF teams in Bihar, two of them on the Gandak, with teams for Gopalganj and Bettiah and a standby at Muzaffarpur. Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit chaired a review with District Magistrates. Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary holds the Water Resources portfolio.

Do not let this drift into a Kosi story. The Nepal-side river involved is the Bhote Koshi of Rasuwa, which is the upper Trishuli, becoming the Narayani and entering India as the Gandak. Despite the name, it is not a Kosi tributary. Bihar’s exposure to this particular flood runs through the Gandak basin.

Bihar Relevance:

• Prelims: Peak about 1.50 lakh cusecs, 11 p.m., 26 August 2026, receding to about 1.04 lakh cusecs by the morning of 27 August. All 36 gates opened.
• Prelims (historical comparison): 2026 season high 2.24 lakh cusecs (14 July 2026); recent record 5.625 lakh cusecs (28 September 2024).
• Prelims: The Narayani gauge at Devghat, Nepal, read 4.77 m against a warning level of 7.30 m and danger level of 9 m. Travel time from Devghat to the Valmiki Nagar barrage is roughly three and a half hours, which is the entire warning window Bihar has.
• Prelims: Nine NDRF teams deployed. Districts on special alert: West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Saran, Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Sitamarhi and Sheohar.
• Prelims: The Valmiki Nagar (Triveni) barrage in West Champaran is operated under the India-Nepal Gandak Agreement of 1959. The NDRF is constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.
• Mains: Transboundary flood forecasting with Nepal, and the structural problem that a three-and-a-half-hour warning window makes evacuation, rather than embankment strengthening, the only responsive instrument (GS1 geography, GS3 disaster management).

3. CM Opens Rs 249 Crore Karbigahia-Mithapur Flyover in Patna

Why in News: CM Samrat Choudhary inaugurated the first phase of the Karbigahia-Mithapur flyover and the Mithapur to Sipara elevated road in Patna on 28 August 2026.

What happened: The flyover’s first phase, built with approach and service roads at a cost of Rs 249 crore, connects the Mithapur bus stand to the Mithapur roundabout by way of a new Karbigahia roundabout. The Chief Minister simultaneously opened a 2.1 km elevated stretch from Mithapur to Sipara, part of the larger Mithapur to Mahuli to Punpun project. Both works target chronic congestion around Patna Junction and the Mithapur bus stand, which is the principal bottleneck on the southern approach to the city centre.

Deputy Chief Minister Vijendra Prasad Yadav, Cabinet Minister Ram Kripal Yadav and Phulwarisharif MLA Shyam Rajak attended.

Bihar Relevance:

• Prelims: Rs 249 crore for phase one of the Karbigahia-Mithapur flyover, inaugurated 28 August 2026; the Mithapur to Sipara elevated road is 2.1 km, under the Mithapur-Mahuli-Punpun project.
• Prelims: Patna’s road infrastructure programme sits alongside the Patna Metro, whose priority corridor has not yet been inaugurated. Do not confuse an announced metro timeline with an opened one.
• Mains: Infrastructure sequencing in a state capital where flyover-led congestion relief is delivered ahead of the mass-transit spine, and whether grade separation without modal shift durably reduces congestion (GS3 infrastructure, GS1 urbanisation).

4. Six Senior IAS Officers Reshuffled

Why in News: The Bihar government issued transfer and posting orders for six IAS officers on 28 August 2026, in an administrative reshuffle notified on a public holiday.

What happened: The reshuffle touched Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Information and Public Relations, Secondary Education, Health, and Excise and Prohibition.

Bihar Relevance:

• Prelims: Six IAS officers reassigned on 28 August 2026. Ujjwal Kumar Singh moved from Director, Animal Husbandry to Special Secretary, Rural Development; Divya Shakti, a 2022-batch officer serving as Deputy Development Commissioner, Kaimur, became Commissioner, Excise and Prohibition.
• Prelims: The IAS is an All India Service under Article 312, created by a Rajya Sabha resolution passed by a two-thirds majority. Officers are allotted to state cadres but their disciplinary control rests with the Union. Bihar’s prohibition regime runs under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.
• Mains: Tenure stability in the higher civil services, and the administrative cost of frequent mid-year reshuffles, read against the Supreme Court’s directions in T.S.R. Subramanian v. Union of India (2013) on fixed minimum tenure and Civil Services Boards (GS2 civil services in a democracy).

5. Poet Satya Narayan, Author of the Bihar Rajya Geet, Dies at 91

Why in News: Satya Narayan, the poet who wrote Bihar’s state song, died at his home in Kadamkuan, Patna, on the morning of 28 August 2026, aged 91.

What happened: He wrote “Mere Bharat ke Kanthahar, tujhko shat-shat vandan Bihar”, adopted as the Bihar Rajya Geet in March 2012, the state’s centenary year. The song was set to music by Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Shivkumar Sharma. Born on 13 September 1935 at Kaulodihri village in Bhojpur district, he became known for protest verse during the 1974 JP Movement, and held the Bihar Rashtrabhasha Parishad’s literary-service award and the Shad Azimabadi Award.

Bihar Relevance:

• Prelims: The Bihar Rajya Geet is “Mere Bharat ke Kanthahar”, written by Satya Narayan, set to music by Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Shivkumar Sharma, and adopted in March 2012.
• Prelims: 2012 was Bihar’s centenary year. Bihar was separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1912, on 22 March, which is why Bihar Diwas is observed since 1912 on that date. Bihar and Odisha were separated from each other in 1936.
• Prelims: The 1974 JP Movement, also called Sampoorna Kranti, began as a student agitation in Bihar under Jayaprakash Narayan and is a standing BPSC topic.
• Mains: Vernacular literature as a vehicle of political mobilisation, with Bihar’s 1974 movement as the case study in how protest verse carries a mass agitation (GS1 modern Indian history, art and culture).

Practice MCQs

1. TRE-4, which the Bihar government announced will be held in a single phase, is conducted by which body and covers how many posts?

a) Bihar Staff Selection Commission, 22,388 posts b) Bihar Public Service Commission, 32,388 posts c) Bihar School Examination Board, 42,388 posts d) Bihar Education Project Council, 12,388 posts

Answer: b Explanation: The Teacher Recruitment Examination-4 is conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission for 32,388 teaching posts across primary, middle and senior secondary levels. The single-phase decision was announced by CM Samrat Choudhary on 27 August 2026 after the Gardani Bagh agitation.

2. Under which Article of the Constitution is a State Public Service Commission such as the BPSC constituted?

a) Article 312 b) Article 324 c) Article 338 d) Article 315

Answer: d Explanation: Article 315 provides for a Public Service Commission for the Union and for each State. Members are appointed by the Governor under Article 316 but can be removed only by the President under Article 317, which is the structural guarantee of the Commission’s independence.

3. The Gandak river, which surged after the Nepal flash flood, is known in Nepal as the Narayani and is fed by which river of the Rasuwa district?

a) Bhote Koshi, which is the upper Trishuli b) Sun Koshi, which is the upper Arun c) Tamor, which is the upper Karnali d) Bagmati, which is the upper Kamla

Answer: a Explanation: The Bhote Koshi of Rasuwa district is the upper Trishuli, which becomes the Narayani and enters India as the Gandak. Despite its name it is not a Kosi tributary. A different Bhote Koshi, in Sindhupalchok, does feed the Sun Koshi.

4. The Valmiki Nagar barrage on the Gandak is operated under which bilateral agreement?

a) The Mahakali Treaty of 1996 b) The Kosi Agreement of 1954 c) The India-Nepal Gandak Agreement of 1959 d) The Tanakpur Agreement of 1991

Answer: c Explanation: The Valmiki Nagar or Triveni barrage in West Champaran district is operated under the India-Nepal Gandak Agreement of 1959. The Kosi Agreement of 1954 governs the Kosi barrage at Bhimnagar, and the Mahakali Treaty of 1996 covers the Sharda and Tanakpur arrangements.

5. The Bihar Rajya Geet, “Mere Bharat ke Kanthahar”, was adopted in which year, and why is that year significant for the state?

a) 2000, the year Jharkhand was separated from Bihar b) 2012, the centenary of Bihar’s separation from the Bengal Presidency c) 1936, the year Bihar and Odisha were separated d) 1950, the commencement of the Constitution

Answer: b Explanation: The song was adopted as the Bihar Rajya Geet in March 2012, the state’s centenary year, because Bihar was carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1912, on 22 March. That date has been observed as Bihar Diwas since 2012. Bihar and Odisha were separated from each other in 1936, and Jharkhand was created in 2000.