Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (), (abbreviated as BSTDC), is a body of the Government of Bihar responsible for the development of tourism in the Indian state of Bihar. It was established in 1980 to develop tourism in the state. The BSTDC is head-quartered at Patna and has offices across all the districts of Bihar. The agency also operates hotels, resorts, and tourist rest houses in key locations in the state. The corporation provides travellers with information about Bihar to promote travel to and in the country. It operates Tourist Information Centres as well as
Nine Provinces dynasty; the "Rituals of Zhou" the Zhou dynasty, and the "Lüshi Chunqiu" the concept and actual territorial distribution of the Nine Provinces during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The "Lüshi Chunqiu" contains the following passage on the location of the nine provinces and their general correspondence with the states of the time: The words "Nine Provinces" do not appear in any ancient oracle bone inscriptions, such that many scholars do not think Yu the Great created the Nine Provinces as was traditionally thought. Some suggest the name "Jiuzhou", which came to mean "Nine Provinces", was actually a