भवन निर्माण विभाग, बिहार सरकार का परिचय
(Introduction of Building Construction Department)
1. Planning and designing building network to provide optimized connectivity to residential and non-residential govt. buildings of different departments.
2. Construction, renovation, upgradation and maintenance of residential and non-residential govt. buildings of different departments.
Before the year 1982, Road Construction, Building Construction and Rural Engineering Organisation were all under the Public Works Dept. (PWD). In the administrative view, Public Works Dept. was split into three different departments named: Road Construction Dept., Building Construction Dept. and Rural Engineering Organisation Dept. by the Cabinet Secretariat and Co-ordination Department's Memorandum No. CS-2-M2-10157/80-878, Patna dated 16th March, 1982.
In this way, the Building Construction Department came into existence in the year 1982. Its head-quarter is located at Visheshwaraiya Bhawan, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Bailey Road, Patna - 800 015.
Bihar became the first state in India to have separate web page for every city and village in the state on its website www.brandbihar.com (Now www.brandbharat.com)
See the record in Limca Book of Records 2012 on Page No. 217