Bihar and Orissa Province health, education, and local government, were transferred to elected ministers. On 1 April 1936, the province was divided into Bihar Province (which included present-day Bihar and Jharkhand states) and Orissa Province, and the Odia speaking princely states placed under the authority of the Eastern States Agency. From 1912 to 1920, the province had a lieutenant governor heading the provincial government. This post was upgraded to governor in 1920, when Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha was appointed to fill it. Bihar and Orissa Province Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India which included the present-day Indian states of
Provinces of Thailand Interior, responsible for the provincial administration of the whole country. Starting in 1893 the already existing commissionaireships in some parts of the country were renamed "superintendent commissioner" ("khaluang Thesaphiban"), and their area of responsibility was called a "monthon". In strategically important areas the monthon were created first, while in other areas the provinces kept their independence a bit longer. Several smaller provinces were reduced in status to a "amphoe" (district) or even lower to a "tambon" (sub-district) and included in a neighboring province, sometimes for administrative reasons, but sometimes to remove an uncooperative governor. In some regions rebellions broke out