Patna: Designations such as peons, chaprasi, orderlies will vanish from Bihar's government offices and those manning the posts will be called "office attendants" and "attendants".

The government on Tuesday decided to scrap Group D from its services in the light of the seventh pay commission recommendations and adjust the employees in to Group C category. The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Nitish Kumar at his secretariat.

"Group D in government service has been scrapped with this decision. Only three groups - A, B and C - will be present according to the pay levels recommended by the seventh pay commission," said Arun Kumar Singh, the principal secretary of cabinet secretariat department.

The decision states that all positions pertaining to all India services will be considered as Group A.

The general administration department's additional secretary, Rajendra Ram, clarified that the cabinet decision has been taken because lower-division clerks and peons in government service were put at the same pay level (level I of Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200) under the seventh pay commission.

The cabinet discussed and approved 20 agendas on Tuesday, including Rs 40.32 crore to be given for creation of academic, administrative and supportive posts at the fisheries college at Kishanganj and develop basic infrastructure in the 2018-19 fiscal.

The cabinet also approved the health department's proposal to create 88 posts in the transplant and nephrology departments of the Patna Medical College and Hospital to start kidney transplant. Similarly, approval has been given to create 25 teaching and non-teaching staff at the Patna Dental College.

In another decision, the cabinet consented to provide faculty members of the nursing college at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences a payscale similar to that of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

The cabinet, in other decisions, approved expenditure of Rs 38 crore to build 24 police stations and outposts in the different districts, the building construction department to employ 100 assistant engineers on contract to help in its projects, and create 64 teaching and 51 non-teaching staff in each of the three newly approved government engineering colleges in Bhojpur, Vaishali and Banka districts.