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 Portugal its beginning, a policy of regionalisation of the country, which was written into the 1933 Constitution, creating new provinces, within an executive body, the "juntas de provincia" () and a deliberative body, the "conselhos provinciais" (). Created in 1936, the new provinces did not correspond to the traditional "comarcas" or "provinícias". The new territories were based on studies made by Amorim Girão, a geographer, who divided continental Portugal into 13 ""regiões naturais"" (). The provinces were: These eleven provinces corresponded each to one of the natural regions developed by Amorim Girão, with two exceptions: the natural regions of Trás-os-Montes and