Patna: The government has failed to provide IT start-ups space at Biscomaun Tower, a promise made in July 2015.

During Question Hour BJP MLC Krishna Kumar Singh said space and facilities were to be provided to new entrepreneurs in the IT sector by December 2015, and asked the government about the timeframe.

Replying on behalf of the government, labour resources minister Vijay Kumar Singh said: "Altogether 31 start-ups were to be provided rent-free space in the incubation centre on the ninth and 13th floors of Biscomaun Tower. The centre was to have high speed wi-fi, 24-hour electricity, conference room, reception-cum-business centre among the facilities.

"The Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation has completed establishing the incubation centre. We will provide space to the start-ups this year."

Asked about the faulty, and allegedly decrepit lifts at the building, the minister said the government would look into it.

MLC Nawal Kishore Yadav pointed out that the government had, for the first time, provisioned Rs 20 lakh in the 2017-18 budget for tricycles to differently abled people, but they have not yet been purchased or distributed. The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) is supposed to distribute the tricycles. No special arrangements, Yadav added, have been done in the parks under PMC.

Urban development and housing minister Suresh Sharma said the tricycles would be distributed next fiscal, leading various legislators around to assert that the matter should be resolved soon.

Finally, Legislative Council deputy chairman Harun Rashid intervened and advised Sharma to hold urgent meetings so that money could be spent on buying and distributing tricycles before the end of the 2017-18 fiscal.

Various legislators also raised questions on lack of dustbins and garbage disposal in different areas of Patna, prompting Rashid to tell Sharma to ensure that such questions were not raised in the Council.

In reply to a question from MLC Sanjeev Kumar Singh, energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said information about room reservation at Bihar Nivas in New Delhi were not texted to mobile phones of applicants. Replying on behalf of the cabinet secretariat department, Bijendra said the state government would improve the functioning and bring in online systems.

Tourism minister Pramod Kumar told MLC Neeraj Kumar that the draft tourism roadmap was ready.