patna the state cabinet on tuesday sanctioned rs 257917 crore for the maintenance and repair of 906431km of state highways and main district roads under its longterm output and performancebased road assets maintenance contract for a period of five years a sum of rs 610 crore has been allocated for the current financial year the state government also increased the compensation amount from rs 1 lakh to rs 5 lakh in case of death in terrorist or maoist attack communal or caste violence or election related clashes the centre provides rs 4 lakh as compensation amount in such cases the cabinet also approved rs 5 crore for paying compensation to the victims of natural calamities briefing the media cabinet secretariat department secretary brajesh mehrotra said the road maintenance policy would cover ordinary and periodic maintenance initial rectification minor repair and emergency situation out of the total 9064km of roads 6626kms are district main roads the total length of roads including state highways in bihar is 13817km the remaining roads are under the rural works department rwd and would be included for longterm maintenance after getting the rwd clearance in order to promote mithila art culture and painting the cabinet cleared the proposal to set up mithila chitrakala sansthan in madhubani cm nitish kumar had announced last year to set up this institute the proposal to set up bihar statistical system development agency bssda was also cleared and rs 370 crore was sanctioned for it the cabinet also cleared 71 posts to run the agency the health department proposal to create separate dental cadre posts of 617 dentists was also approved the process would be initiated soon to appoint dentists at phcs and sadar hospitals a separate post of joint director dental services has also been created the cabinet also sanctioned rs 25 crore to the indira gandhi institute of medical sciences igims patna for its establishment expenditure a faculty of electrical engineering department in the newly set up b p mandal engineering college madhepura also got the nod the proposal to create 64 academic and 75 technicaladministrative posts in the college was also approved a proposal for rs 9497 crore to aryabhatta knowledge university was also cleared a sum of rs 28 crore would soon be released the state cabinet also gave green signal to the implementation of centresponsored icds integrated child development scheme and integrated system strengthening nutrition improvement project issnip